Exhibitions

Current and upcoming
collage, header, APS,

Treasures of the American Philosophical Society

2018
Online Exhibition
map of great alachua

Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic

April 12–December 29, 2019
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Exhibitions archive
map of great alachua

Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic

April 12–December 29, 2019
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
image of bespectacled woman

Mildred Cohn: Trailblazer

2018
collage, header, APS,

Treasures of the American Philosophical Society

2018
Online Exhibition
Image of woman in a long dress showing a child the detail of a large, flowered bush.

Enlightened Conversation in the "Kennebec Kingdom" of Sarah Manning Vaughan (1753-1834)

2015
Online Only
Greuze portrait of Benjamin Franklin

In Franklin's Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society

April 13-November 15, 2018
104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA
Eastern State

Eastern Apps: Visualizing Historic Prison Data

2017
Center for Digital Scholarship
peale self portrait

Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia

April 7-December 30, 2017
104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA
Baruch Blumberg in lab

A Journey of Inquiry: Exploring the Scientific Process through the Manuscript Collection of Baruch S. Blumberg

2017
Center for Digital Scholarship
two men at microphone

Great Talks at the American Philosophical Society

Submarine stuck in ice

Low Road North: Sir Hubert Wilkins's 1931 Polar Expedition

2000
Online only
Lewis and Clark journals

Treasures of the APS

2000
Online only
Engraving of alligator

Southern Nature: Scientific Views of the Colonial American South

2001
Online only
Scientist working in lab

Frontiers of Knowledge: Britton Chance and New Channels of Discovery

2017
Center for Digital Scholarship
William Birch engraving of the back of the State House.

Celebrating 275 Years of Promoting Useful Knowledge

2018
Center for Digital Scholarship
advertisement for prize applications

America's First Scientific Award: The Magellanic Premium of the APS

Online only