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Galleries hosting Days (top) and Giorni (bottom), (all photos by M. McClellan)

Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art this weekend and you’ll find that there’s much more to see and hear than you may have been expecting. First is a pair of sound installations from Bruce Nauman, a visual, audio and performance artist, who’s been making art for nearly 40 years.

In these installations (which open Saturday), entitled Days and Giorni, visitors walk through a corridor of sound, in otherwise empty galleries. The seven pairs of speakers that Nauman uses in this piece are directional, so that as you walk through you go from hearing a cacophony of voices to being able to pick out individuals.

The second installation that’s opening this weekend (this one on Sunday, November 22nd), is a full room piece by Dutch artist and designer, Marcel Wanders. Entitled Daydreams, this is “a dreamlike, multimedia installation of objects personally selected by the artist to represent pivotal points in his extraordinary career.” Visit this exhibit and you’ll feel a little like Alice in Wonderland — everyday objects are larger or smaller than is typical, a stack of chairs teeters and a butterfly gently drifts upwards from enlarged china patterns projected on the wall.

Days (in the main museum building) and Giorni (in the Perelman building) will be available for viewing November 21st through April 4, 2010 and Daydreams will open (in the Perelman) November 22 through June 13, 2010.