This winter's issue of Museums proudly brings you this list of the top five shows in the City of Brotherly Love. Be sure to check out Top Five Boston coming shortly for other great East Coast offerings. For excursions around the States and around the globe, jet-setting museum-hoppers should look to Top 5 L.A., Top 10 U.S.A., Top 5 London, and Top 10 Europe.

1. Feting the 100th anniversary of Frida Kahlo’s birth, the exhibition “Frida Kahlo” pairs her realistic, jewel-toned paintings and self-portraits with rare photographs of Kahlo and other personal snapshots. To see this revered Mexican painter’s introspective work, head to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from February 20 through May 18.

2. “American Figure Painter,” a retrospective of Cecilia Beaux’s portraiture, aptly ends its tour at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was both student and professor. Almost 85 oil paintings, works on paper, and decorative objects illustrate the life of this Philadelphia native, who was arguably the leading female American artist at the turn of the 20th century. From February 2 through April 13. 

3. Photographer Greg MacGregor retraced Lewis and Clark’s famed footsteps two centuries after the pioneering duo’s 1804 journey west. His 60 black-and-white shots, alongside excerpts from the explorers’ journals, in “Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day,” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, comment on the transformation of American landscape and life. Through February 10.

4. The San Francisco-based artist Trisha Donnelly’s first survey includes works made between 1998 and 2007, drawn from a practice that incorporates text, demonstrations, performance, sound, energy fields, gravitation, levers, drawings, paintings, videos, photos of metaphoric phenomena, and other elements. “Trisha Donnelly” is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, from January 18 through August 3.

5. “Identity: An Exhibition of You” uses fun, interactive components—including an “Identity Wall” with visitors’ pictorial representations—to pose a thought-provoking question: Do you know who you are? Once you start thinking about the physical, psychological, and social elements that make each of us unique, you might leave with a different perspective on someone you’ve known forever—you! Through April 20 at the Franklin Institute Science Museum.

"Top 5 Philadelphia" comes to ARTINFO from the Winter 2008 issue of Museums magazine.