Past Public Events and Programs

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In Franklin's Footsteps Exhibition Logo
Museum Program

Second Saturday: Boats and Science

12pm - 3pm
notebook with word pioneer scratched out, replaced by shuswap notes
Public Lecture

Indigenous Expertise and the Archival Record: A Conversation on Community-Based Research

5:00 p.m.
Photograph of Buzz Aldrin From the First Manned Lunar Landing, from the APS Library
Museum Program

Shoot for the Stars

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Gigantic Mastodon from the American Philosophical Society Library
Museum Program

Nature Explorers

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
In Franklin's Footsteps Exhibition Logo
Museum Program

Second Saturday: Fun with Fossils

12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
American Philosophical Society Library, Landscape: river & wood by Titian Ramsay Peale
Museum Program

Useful Knowledge 101: Wild Clay with Nate Willever

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Linda Greenhouse at podium
Public Lecture

Journalism in the Age of Trump

5:30-7:00 p.m.
American Philosophical Society Museum, Museum Collection, Astronomical Transit Telescope
Museum Program

Second Saturday: Let the Stars Shine Through

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
In Franklin's Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society
Museum Program

Useful Knowledge 101: Ecology of Philadelphia

6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson

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photo of Nikola Tesla
Public Lecture

Magic and Lightning: Into the Mind of Nikola Tesla

5:00 p.m.
Portrait of Elisha Kent Kane from the American Philosophical Society Collection
Museum Program

A Path To Arctic Ice

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm