# Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pafa/  
**Website:** https://www.pafa.org  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 8.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 8.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Pafa Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Art Education, Art Museum, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Nonprofit, Fine Arts, Museum, National Historic Landmark, Non-Profit, Philadelphia, Visual Arts

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