mike_bene - WW is right - you can transfer from Amtrak to SEPTA at the 30th Street Station. It's an easy walk - but check the schedules for the "Paoli-Thorndale" line. You may find it easier to take the "Blue Line" (Frankford "EL") to 69th street station and transfer to the Norristown high speed light rail line (which ends up in Norristown at the other end).
Don't be afraid to ask when you get to the station - most people are happy to help.
Another must see:
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/782.htmlPhiladelphia Museum of Art:
The Art of Golf
March 16, 2013 - July 7, 2013
The Golfers (1847), an iconic work by Scottish painter Charles Lees (1800–1880), is the centerpiece of The Art of Golf, an exhibition celebrating what has been called “a game of considerable passion” on the occasion of the U.S. Open Championships, which will be played in June at the Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. This installation explores the creation of Lees’s complex and ambitious masterpiece, bringing together related works, including sketches, a photograph, and an engraving, alongside golf equipment and clothing that illuminate the sport.
Modern golf’s roots can be traced to the east coast of Scotland, where kings and commoners have played the game since at least the fifteenth century. With the formation of golf societies, the establishment of rules, and the creation of annual competitions in the mid-eighteenth century, Scottish artists began depicting the sportsmanship and pleasures of the royal and ancient game. Lees’s monumental painting of fifty-four figures clustered tightly around a two-ball foursome match played on the links at St. Andrews is filled with accurate representations of celebrated golfers of the day as well as enthusiasts and authorities on the sport. Rich with descriptive details of costume and social customs, such as the young girl selling ginger beer refreshments to the crowd, the work is a tour de force of Victorian art.
Organizer
The Art of Golf is organized by the National Galleries of Scotland and the High Museum of Art. A larger presentation of the exhibition was shown at the High Museum of Art (February 5– June 24, 2012); Oklahoma City Museum of Art (July 19–October 7, 2012); and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (November 3, 2012–February 17, 2013).
Curator
Jennifer Thompson, The Gloria and Jack Drosdick Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 and the Rodin Museum