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Museum of the American Revolution to commemorate Memorial Day weekend with crafts, performances

What's happening during Wawa Welcome America? It's more than just fireworks and the concert with Ne-Yo and Kesha

Wawa Welcome America 2024

Before Eastern State Penitentiary closed, music by the prison's inmate band delighted radio audiences

Eastern State Penitentiary music

Please Touch Museum to launch event series for adults with '90s-themed party

please touch museum event

The giant heart is closing at the Franklin Institute, but it will return later this year

Franklin Institute giant heart

Allentown's expanded science museum now has animatronic dinos, live otters and a waterfall

Da Vinci Science Center reopening

Red, White, & Blue To-Do event on July 2 is a founding father's dream come true

red white blue to-do

PAFA will host yoga classes in its rotunda

PAFA yoga

Steamer trunk at Weitzman Museum tells the story of Jewish displacement after World War II

Weitzman Museum Philly displaced persons

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Museum of the American Revolution to host day camps for kids in April

museum of the american revolution day camps

Exhibit at Fabric Workshop and Museum turns caring for others into a game

Group Hug exhibit Risa Puno

Mütter Museum to hold free open houses as part of ethical review of its exhibits

Mutter Museum Open Houses

Malaysian food, wine and a prison baseball pop-up: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide Kampar

The Weitzman Museum, which celebrates Jewish American heritage, may join the Smithsonian

Weitzman Museum Smithsonian

American Bible Society to close its museum on Independence Mall

Faith Liberty Center

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Museum of the American Revolution to offer family-friendly 'spring break' activities

museum of the american revolution spring break

Mütter Museum to host Radiant Ball in honor of Marie Curie

Radiant ball Marie Curie

Please Touch Museum begins yearslong renovations of Memorial Hall

Please Touch Museum renovations

Mütter Museum receives unusual package with jars containing two preserved fetuses, police say

Mutter fetuses

An ice festival and Center City Restaurant Week: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide ice festival

Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site to host after-hours tours in honor of the writer's 215th birthday

Poe Cellar Candelight

Why do so many museums have locks of George Washington's hair?

George Washington portrait

Museum of the American Revolution celebrates MLK this weekend with poetry, theater performances

MLK weekend museum of the american revolution

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American Revolution museum to offer winter-themed activities for kids between Christmas and New Year's

American Revolution Winter

Franklin Institute permanently closes Tuttleman IMAX theater

Franklin Institute IMAX

The iron lung seems archaic, but a smaller version — like the one at the Mütter Museum — helped people, even recently

Inside the Archives Mütter Museum

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Franklin Institute's 'Wondrous Space' exhibit lets kids build their own rockets and astronaut suits

Space rover Franklin Institute

Bruce Springsteen's career archives will move to new building at Monmouth University

Springsteen Museum

New exhibit at Philadelphia Museum of Art features pieces smuggled out of North Korea

Korean exhibit Philadelphia Museum of Art

This 5,000-year-old stone tablet at the Penn Museum is among the oldest examples of writing in the world

Penn ancient tablet

Inside the Archives spotlights items at Philly museums that you won't typically find on display

Inside the Archives museum series

Story of a pioneering queer writer's audacious love life is preserved in the Rosenbach collection

rosenbach Mercedes de Acosta

Mr. Potato Head's forgotten friends from the 1960s live in Philly at the Please Touch Museum

Please Touch Museum potato head

Dr. Mira Irons, CEO of College of Physicians of Philadelphia, resigns amid Mütter Museum's ethical review

Mütter CEO resigns

Mütter Museum to host town hall to address ethics of displaying human remains

Mutter Museum Town Hall

Science History Institute's new exhibit explores history of textile dyes

Science History Institute Bold Exhibit

Mütter Museum asks the public to weigh in on ethical battle over displaying human remains

Mutter Museum Gallery

Penn Museum to overhaul its Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries as part of 5-year renovation project

Penn Museum Renovations

National Constitution Center's new First Amendment gallery displays letter George Washington wrote to Quakers

First Amendment Constitution Center

Philly abolitionist's descendants donate 184-year-old Bible to Museum of the American Revolution

Forten Family Bible

Steam train built in 1838 to relocate from Franklin Institute to Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Locomotive Franklin Institute

Battleship New Jersey to be moved on land for maintenance for first time in 32 years

battleship NJ maintenance

Philly's newest art museum Calder Gardens could open by late 2024

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