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When Benjamin Franklin and friends decided in 1743 to establish America’s first “learned society,” they called it the American Philosophical Society because they practiced the objective study of nature and called themselves natural philosophers. Now we’d call them scientists. But the word “philosophical” stuck. In the first half-century of the republic APS served as a national library, museum, and academy of science. In 2001, the American Philosophical Society opened a museum in Philosophical Hall for the first time since Charles Willson Peale created American’s first successful museum there in 1794. Today the APS Museum presents both ambitious exhibitions and challenging work by contemporary artists that that present the Society’s treasure trove of important documents, scientific specimens, patent models, portraits, maps 300,000 books, 8 million manuscripts, art works and objects that traces American history from the Founding Fathers to the computer age in new and thought-provoking ways.

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    American Philosophical Society Museum

    104 S. Fifth Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106

    Phone: 215-440-3442   |   Official Website

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    12/14/11	Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the APS Museum with Adam Gopnik American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
    12/01/11- 12/03/11	Of Pictures & Specimens: Natural History in Post-Revolutionary and Restoration France American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
    11/06/11	counter)induction Concert American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
    11/04/11	Listener Encounter American Philosophical Society Museum
    10/20/11	Between Architecture, Nature and Technology: Material Analogs American Philosophical Society Museum
    10/20/11	Between Architecture, Nature and Technology: Material Analogs American Philosophical Society Museum
    10/15/11- 10/16/11	A Paper Garden
    09/24/11- 09/25/11	Roots, Shoots, and Barrels: A Family Weekend American Philosophical Society Museum
    09/20/11	Designing the Wild and Cultivating the City American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
    09/09/11- 12/14/11	The Greenhouse Projects American Philosophical Society Museum
    09/09/11	Grand Opening Reception for The Greenhouse Projects American Philosophical Society Museum
    09/02/11- 09/17/11	A Paper Garden American Philosophical Society Museum
    08/05/11	Spotlight on Porcelain American Philosophical Society Museum
    06/11/11	Designer Plates (Second Saturdays at the APS Museum) American Philosophical Society Museum
    06/03/11	Spotlight on Printmaking (First Friday at the APS Museum) American Philosophical Society Museum
    05/25/11	A Passion for Roses: The Empress, the Quaker, and the Flower They Loved American Philosophical Society Museum
    05/14/11	Picturing Petals (Second Saturdays at the APS Museum) American Philosophical Society Museum
    04/14/11	Rose Is A Rose A Rose...Or Is It? If Empress Josephine Met Gertrude Stein American Philosophical Society Museum
    03/25/11- 12/31/11	Of Elephants and Roses: Encounters with French Natural History, 1790–1830 American Philosophical Society Museum
    09/19/10	Artist panel: A Priest, A Rabbi and Charles Darwin Walk Into A Bar... American Philosophical Society Museum
    09/10/10- 09/18/10	The Association for Creative Zoology American Philosophical Society Museum
    06/13/10	Now You See It, Now You Don't American Philosophical Society Museum
    05/09/10	The Magical Magic Lantern (Second Sundays at the APS Museum) American Philosophical Society Museum
    03/14/10	Printing from Nature (Second Sundays at the APS Museum) American Philosophical Society Museum
    03/05/10	Lisa Anne Auerbach: Pass It On American Philosophical Society Museum
    02/19/10- 02/21/10	Dialogues with Darwin Music and Poetry Project American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
    02/14/10	Wiggly Worms (Second Sundays at the APS Museum) American Philosophical Society Museum
    01/29/10- 04/11/10	The Tract House: A Darwin Addition
    01/29/10- 04/11/10	Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print - Tract House Storefront American Philosophical Society Museum
    11/08/09	Second Sundays: Fossil Fever American Philosophical Society Museum
    10/16/09- 10/25/09	Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man American Philosophical Society Museum
    10/11/09	Second Sundays: Book Arts Fun American Philosophical Society Museum
    04/01/09- 10/17/10	Dialogues with Darwin American Philosophical Society Museum
    12/31/69	Print Aweigh, Take Away