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The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (PMSIA), also referred to as the School of Applied Art, was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on February 26, 1876 as both a museum and teaching institution. This was in response to the Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia that year.

Classes began in Fall 1877, in a building at 312 North Broad Street, and soon expanded into the old Franklin Institute (now the Philadelphia History Museum), at 15 South 7th Street.

In 1893 PMSIA acquired a complex of buildings at Broad & Pine, vacated by the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb when they moved to Germantown.

In 1938, the two institutions split: the museum became the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the school became the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. In 1964, the school became independent of the museum and renamed itself the Philadelphia College of Art. After further name changes the school has become the University of the Arts. University of the Arts has retained the property at 342 S. Broad Street.