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Faith Liberty Center

American Bible Society to close its museum on Independence Mall

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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

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

Korean exhibit Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

Springsteen Museum

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

rosenbach Mercedes de Acosta

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

Inside the Archives museum series

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

Please Touch Museum potato head

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

Penn ancient tablet

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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Children can listen to Revolutionary War stories at Philly libraries this summer

AmRev Library Summer Program

SmörgåsBeer returns to FDR Park next weekend with Nordic beers and Swedish lawn games

Smorgasbeer 2023

Drink a beer and watch an outdoor showing of 'Philadelphia' at the Mütter

Mutter films

First Bank of the United States to be renovated, reopened as museum

First Bank Museum

Barnes Foundation annual block party celebrates 50 years of hip-hop and features plenty of art

Barnes Block Party

Moms for Liberty event still set for Museum of the American Revolution despite outcry from staff, historians

Furry, feathery 'Skin' exhibit opens at the Academy of Natural Sciences

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Philly Beer Week and a Prince birthday bash: Your weekend guide to things to do

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Climb aboard the Cruiser Olympia for a 1920s speakeasy pop-up this summer

Cruiser Olympia Speakeasy

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Play ball! Please Touch Museum's immersive Major League Baseball exhibit opens for the summer

please touch museum baseball

Demi Lovato, Ludacris to headline Wawa Welcome America concert on July 4

Welcome America Headliners

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Sample oysters and learn about the ocean at the Science History Institute's summer festival

Science History Institute

Mütter Museum weighs ethical concerns over online exhibits displaying human remains

Mütter Museum Ethics

Museum of the American Revolution launches interactive multimedia timeline with historical objects, documents

museum of the american revolution timeline

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