Nice always been a missed opportunity, especially with al the tourists.

They really need to address the dangerous pedestrian/illegal parking/Uber situation they have in front of that. They put the barricade up and that made the problem worse not better. Of course if we had a police force that gave a fuck, it would be easily solved.

Tourism in Philly is meant to complement seeing the Rocky statue, getting a cheesesteak and posing in front of the Liberty bell and not hinder it. People are going to do whatever they want to do. It’s their job to get tourists to stay longer.

So the guys that post up at the statue every weekend and hassle tourists for money to take their Rocky photo will be out of a job or …?

Yeah, they need to just redirect everyone to the back entrance for pickup/dropoff.

With STAFF shirts on

But then they’ll have to compete with all the tourists who can’t figure out how to use the art museum parking garage

Whatever. This is where our running club meets but nothing lasts forever

Not in our neighborhood. There’s gonna be significant backlash

Or who fail to realize there's an art museum at the top of the steps

It's on the parkway at the museum in an established tourist spot, what are you talking about?

This is legit the funniest thing to me. So many times, I've seen tourists do their Rocky thing and then just...walk on by. The country's fourth or fifth largest museum is riiiight there!

Why wouldn’t they actually put a visitor center in the empty visitor center building in Love Park? Nah, let’s park a shipping container next to the beautiful architecture of the art museum instead.

They don't work at the visitor center, they just have Staff shirts.

It's ugly as hell for starters.

Right. Guys wear staff shirts to trick people and say it's a paid photo. So lame.

I live 5 minutes from the musueam and the novelty hasn't worn off. Everytime I go up the stairs and look at the view it's like my first time. The musueam building itself is a fascinating work of architecture that I can't get bored staring at.

That being said, I've never once set foot inside. I have zero interest in art and can't tell a master piece from a child's scribble. I'd assume a good amount of tourists are in the same boat as me. Also, every medium-to-big city in the country has an art museum. You have to be really obsessed with art to differentiate between what the PMA offers vs any other art museum.

I suppose I assume most people live their lives with curiosity and eagerness to experience that which is new, or that which they don't know.