The Fisher Fine Arts Library

I spent years working and studying the Fisher Fine Arts Library, and it still is a breathtaking site to me. If there's one building on Penn Campus that you see, I'd say this should be the one. The Library is closed on weekends in the summer, but is open from 9am-5pm Mon-Thurs, and 9-5 on Fri.

The Library's official address is 220 South 34th Street, but if you walk down 34th you'll only see it from the back-- still, you can't miss it. It looks very RED and very Gothic. You need to go up the stairs on the West side of 34th Street (toward the Green), and walk around to the front stairs. Once in the lobby, go straight through to the library doors. You'll be immediately up against a turnstile-- so lean over and ask the front desk person if visitors are allowed to come in. Sometimes you can get in with a driver's license and by signing in-- but if not, just having a look around from the door is enough! It's quite a sight, and only takes 5 minutes. Pay special attention to the windows! Oh, and if you saw the movie Philadelphia with Tom Hanks, you may recognize this as the Law Library-- I guess the real law school library wasn't pretty enough, so they came here and dressed up the art books to look like law journals, and changed the lamps (weird). It's probably the most beautiful library I've ever been to... see what you think!