{"id":196,"date":"2013-05-18T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:02:47","slug":"philadelphias-museum-without-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Museum without Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4QmhOqmlPg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Philadelphia, the Association for Public Art has developed a &#8220;museum without walls&#8221; program to interpret its public art, and it is one of the best &#8220;street&#8221; tours in the country. The self-guided tours are available in several multiple platforms: You can call phone numbers listed with each sculpture, use a free smart phone app, download the audio to an MP3 player, or scan a QR code (known as a QR or quick response code) on the free &#8220;Museum Without Walls&#8221; map at locations around the city.<\/p>\n<p>The tour stops are very well-done, with interesting content provided by historians, curators, sometimes the artist  or a living relative. For the linked video, for example, they enlist author Kirk Savage, who wrote <em>Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in 19th Century America<\/em>, historian Harold Holzer, and Millard F. Rogers, Jr., author of <em>Randolph Rogers: American Sculptor in Rome<\/em>. All knowledgeable, entertaining, and passionate about the subject. Visual content is simple &#8212; photographs of the work of art itself. <\/p>\n<p>As with our pastcasts, the three-to-five minute length seems optimal. What Philadelphia does well is provide a place on their website where you can upload your own pictures and add your own thoughts about the sculptures. There is also a set of lesson plans for 4th and 5th grade students. This project was funded by The Pew Center for Arts &#038; Heritage through the Heritage Philadelphia Program, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Philadelphia, the Association for Public Art has developed a &#8220;museum without walls&#8221; program to interpret its public art, and it is one of the best &#8220;street&#8221; tours in the country. The self-guided tours are available in several multiple platforms: You can call phone numbers listed with each sculpture, use a free smart phone app,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=196\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum-without-walls","category-pastcasts","tag-museum-without-walls-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kcV8-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}