When you aren't on the Bourse floor, or if you are staying on in Philadelphia after the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Philadelphia Expo ends on Saturday, consider a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Soon after entering the main building, you'll see one of Saint-Gaudins' better known sculptures. Here's the description from the Museum's website:

The celebrated sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens created Diana as a weathervane for the second Madison Square Garden building in New York City, designed by his equally renowned friend and frequent collaborator, the architect Stanford White. Saint-Gaudens’s graceful rendering of the Roman goddess of the hunt makes reference to classical sculpture, but her athletic fitness and elongated proportions are strikingly modern. The figure was originally gilded and fitted with a billowing drapery to catch the wind. On her 300-foot-high tower, Diana became the highest point in the city and was the area’s first statue to be lit at night by electricity. Diana remained a New York landmark until the structure was torn down in 1925 and the sculpture acquired by this Museum.

You'll also find a wide variety of Renaissance and contemporary art, textiles, furnishings and, yes, even a modest collection of medals, including works by Poussin, Bearers and Gayrard. Perhaps best known in pop culture for the triumphant run by movie protagonist Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the third-largest. One often overlooked art venue in Philly is the Barnes Foundation. Technically located outside the city limits, the Barnes Foundation will move next year to a location near the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Here is an overview of the collections, from the Barnes Foundation website:

The Barnes Foundation houses one of the finest collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early Modern paintings in the world, including an extraordinary number of masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (181), Paul Cézanne (69), and Henri Matisse (59). The collection also includes important works by Pablo Picasso (46), Chaim Soutine (21), Henri Rousseau (18), Amedeo Modigliani (16), Edgar Degas (11), Vincent van Gogh (7), Georges Seurat (6), Edouard Manet (4), and Claude Monet (4). Although renowned for its late 19th- and early 20th-century European paintings, the Foundation's collection also includes important examples of American paintings and works on paper, including works by Charles Demuth, William Glackens, and Maurice and Charles Prendergast; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; Medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings, including works by El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, and Titian; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; and American and European decorative arts and metalwork.

So, take advantage of your visit to the City of Brotherly Love by taking in a museum. Or, if that's not to your taste, explore the many other attractions. We've posted this article with tips on exploring the Old City.