A visit to scenic Filth-adelphia

I got to show Chad and Amber my favorite restaurant and two of my favorite museums in Philadelphia last weekend. Friday night, after they flew in, I took them to a very crowded Monk's Café, which is a Belgian restaurant. The next day we went to the Barnes Foundation, which is a very large private art collection in a mansion in the suburbs. The collection was purchased by one Dr. Alfred Barnes, who became rich in the early decades of the last century off of a medication for infants he developed. He then sent agents over to Europe to buy up crate-loads of post-Impressionist and early Modern work. The museum is arranged the way Dr. Barnes left it, with the paintings hung salon style on beige canvas-covered walls. Interspersed among the paintings are pieces of iron-wrought hardware and antique furniture. The doctor then set up his own school that taught his theories about art appreciation, because he abhorred the academics downtown. After the Barnes Foundation we went to the Mütter Museum, which is a 19th century museum of medical oddities located in the College of Physicians; Mutant foetuses in jars, giant nine foot long colons, catalogues of things people have gotten lodged in their throats, that kind of thing.
The next day, we watched the Eagles squeak-out a last minute victory in a bar down by the stadium. The bar itself was one of the most jocko places I've ever witnessed, but no one was unfriendly or anything. In the evening, we went to a delicious dinner at the home of Brian and Stacy, who are friends of Chad and Amber from Chicago, and then to karaoke.
Good times!

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Oh, Chad, here's a work by Peter Blume which I believe is related to the mural next to City Hall. I need to double-check the authorship of the mural, but doesn't it look a lot like this painting?
Peter Blume, "Hadrian's Villa", 1958.
In other news... *nudge, nudge*