The Graduate Group maintains close connections with the leading Philadelphia museums, notably the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  Curators from those institutions offer occasional instruction in the Graduate Group, and members of the faculty serve the museums as guest curators and advisors.  Our graduate students participate in the Graduate Exchange Lecturer Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

The other museums of Philadelphia are frequently useful to our students.  These include the Rodin Museum, Atwater Kent Museum, Barnes Foundation, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Rosenbach Collection.  The collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society contain materials not available elsewhere.

Students at the University of Pennsylvania may register for courses at Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, and the University of Delaware.  The University also participates in semester- and year-long exchange programs with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, MIT, Chicago, Stanford, and Berkeley.  Students should be aware that other schools follow different academic calendars and operate under different academic rules for late work and other matters.  Permission of the Graduate Group chair (and, in some cases, the Dean and Provost) is required to take courses at these institutions, and a maximum of three courses from them may be counted toward a degree at the University of Pennsylvania.