Philadelphia Museum of Art Steps

Seventy-two stone steps climb from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the grand entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. These steps serve as the final stage of a vast urban planning project that transformed the city's approach to Fairmount Park. In nineteen seventy-six, a scene from the film Rocky featured the lead character sprinting to the top to celebrate his training, permanently linking the stone rise to the image of the underdog athlete. Today, visitors still replicate that run against the skyline.