Explore the gallery
Eighteen panoramic stops preserve the visual density of the exhibition and let visitors choose their own route through banners, photographs, listening stations, archives, and community-made art.
Learning guide
Grades 7–12 · Civic and historical inquiry
No Arena:Making a Movement
An eighteen-stop panoramic exhibition carrying a living history of community power beyond the gallery walls.
- 18
- panoramic story stops
- 42K
- source community collage
- 2
- ways to access the story
The digital exhibition
Preserve the energy.Extend the invitation.
“No Arena: Making a Movement” documented the decentralized, people-led coalition that opposed the proposed 76 Place arena near Philadelphia’s Chinatown. The physical exhibition brought together archival material, audio, firsthand accounts, campaign art, and the tactics that turned many individual actions into a citywide movement.
The digital experience treats the gallery as an explorable story, not a slideshow. Visitors can move spatially, follow a curated eighteen-stop route, enlarge the movement’s community collage, or use a dedicated accessible text-and-image companion experience.
Enter the experience
The gallery is open online.
Drag or swipe to look around. Use the story, listening, video, and “look closer” controls to move deeper into the exhibition.
Open full screenPrefer a linear, text-and-image experience? Open the accessible exhibition tour.
One exhibition, multiple depths
Let curiosity choose the route.
Look closer
Story, audio, video, and gigapixel layers let a visitor move from the room-scale experience into the people, artifacts, and firsthand accounts that give the movement its meaning.
Choose an accessible path
A dedicated text-and-image route provides visual descriptions, adjustable type, high contrast, keyboard support, and direct links back into the panoramic exhibition.
Inquiry route
Move from observation to an evidence-based conclusion.
Begin with a compelling question: how do communities preserve identity, organize collective action, and shape the future of a neighborhood? Analyze posters, photographs, oral histories, and objects; compare perspectives; then create a sourced interpretation or a local-history response of your own.
Curriculum connections include the C3 Inquiry Arc, CCSS ELA-Literacy RH.6–8.1 and RH.6–8.7, and National Core Arts Standards for responding to visual work and connecting it to cultural context.