Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is the United States' first museum and school of fine arts, founded in 1805 in Philadelphia by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. PAFA operates as a 501(c)(3) cultural nonprofit at 118-128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 and occupies two connected historic buildings — the Frank Furness and George Hewitt-designed Furness-Hewitt Building (1876, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975) and the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building — joined by Lenfest Plaza. PAFA's permanent collection focuses on 19th- and 20th-century American art and includes works tied to alumni and faculty such as Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Henry Ossawa Tanner, William Glackens, Barkley L. Hendricks, Violet Oakley, Cecilia Beaux, Louis Kahn, David Lynch, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, alongside the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women. Following a March 2025 announcement of a financial crisis driven by a reported roughly $3 million annual deficit and a sharp decline in enrollment, PAFA stopped granting its own BFA and MFA degrees beginning with the 2024-2025 academic year. As of 2026 the school's active educational pathways are the three-year Fine Arts Certificate Program ("designed to prepare students for entry-level professional roles within the visual arts and related creative industries"), Continuing Education classes ("an inclusive studio arts offering for artists of all ages and skill levels, from beginners to advanced creatives") delivered in-person and online, Youth & Teen programs including Summer Art Camp and Summer Academy, and PAFA Shop Memberships providing self-guided access to professional-grade printmaking, papermaking, and sculpture studios. The museum continues to operate, with admission $25 adults / $23 seniors / $10 students / $5 youth / free for children 12 and under and members, and is presenting the once-in-a-generation exhibition "A Nation of Artists" (April 2026 - September 2027) in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Middleton Family Collection. PAFA is a cultural nonprofit, not a technology company. It publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI specifications, no SDKs, no public REST or GraphQL APIs, no webhooks, no status page, and no engineering blog. There is no `github.com/pafa` institutional organization — the user account `github.com/pafa` is an unrelated personal account focused on ERP and WeChat tooling. The institution's only programmatic third-party surface is its participation in the Bloomberg Connects free digital museum guide app, which presents PAFA's collection and tours through Bloomberg Philanthropies' shared mobile platform. Donations are routed through the third-party platform community.pafa.org/give and ticketing through standard museum e-commerce.
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API Evangelist profiles Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) scores 12.1/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Features 11
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Pafa Context
JSON-LDSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 10
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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