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American Philosophical Society Museum

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

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  01/29/10- 04/11/10	The Tract House: A Darwin Addition The Tract House: A Darwin Addition
  01/29/10- 04/11/10	Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print - Tract House Storefront American Philosophical Society Museum
  04/01/09- 10/17/10	Dialogues with Darwin American Philosophical Society Museum

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  04/10/10- 04/11/10

  Print Aweigh, Take Away American Philosophical Society Museum

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  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
  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