Students returned to classrooms Monday, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s education programming is also shifting back into school mode at its learning and engagement center, which opened last year.

PMA’s goal is to welcome Philadelphia’s residents to the museum. A recent success was a popular free busing program for students that PMA introduced last November . The museum has revealed it will be back for the entire 2025-26 school year.

The busing is in support of educational sessions, which began last year with tours and guided discussions of an exhibition of Black and African diasporic artists on the museum’s closed weekdays. The popularity of the program led to it being expanded to include general collections and extra days until the end of the school year.

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