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Exhibitions

Current and upcoming
Portrait of Franklin

Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist

2021
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Mapping a Nation Banner Image

Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic (Online Exhibition)

2019
American Philosophical Society, 105 S. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Exhibitions archive
Portrait of Franklin

Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist

2021
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Chart of the gulf stream

Benjamin Franklin’s American Enlightenment: Documenting Early American Science at the American Philosophical Society

2020
Online Exhibition
image of meteorological records

Historic Meteorological Records at the APS

2020
Center for Digital Scholarship
Mapping a Nation Banner Image

Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic (Online Exhibition)

2019
American Philosophical Society, 105 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
In Franklin's Footsteps Banner Image

In Franklin's Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society (Online Exhibition)

2018
American Philosophical Society, 105 S. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Eastern State

Eastern Apps: Visualizing Historic Prison Data

2017
Center for Digital Scholarship
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Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia

April 7-December 30, 2017
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
Jefferson 3 Banner

Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America

April 15 - December 30, 2016
Jefferson 2 Banner

Jefferson, Science, and Exploration

April 10 – December 30, 2015
Varley Banner

Through the Looking Lens: Cornelius Varley’s Wondrous Images of Art and Science, 1800-1860

May 17 – December 29, 2013
104 S. Fifth Street
Transit Banner

Sic Transit Glorious: A Transit of Venus Celebration

June 1, 2012-July 8, 2012
104 S. Fifth Street