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Philadelphia Zoo
3400 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Philadelphia Zoo’s 42-acre garden is home to more than 1,300 animals, many of them rare and endangered. This was the first zoo in the United States and opened in 1874.
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Shofuso Japanese House & Garden
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Shofuso in its present incarnation was built in Nagoya, Japan in 1953, using traditional materials and techniques, exhibited at MoMA as part of “The House in the Museum Garden” series, and moved to the temple gate site in Philadelphia when the exhibition closed in 1958.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130
The Philadelphia Museum of Art sits majestically on a rise at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The vast collections of this temple of art make it the third-largest art museum in the country.
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