APS offices and the Library will be closed until further notice. On-site events are suspended, but read more about virtual programming and resources that can be accessed remotely. Read more about the APS response to COVID-19.

Exhibitions

Current and upcoming
Portrait of Franklin

Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist

Opening this Spring
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

Opening this Spring
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
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
banner

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
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
Children watching a plane go by

Too Near Where History Is Being Made: Henry Howard Houston II in a Time of War

2015
Center for Digital Scholarship
image of a deed

Good Deeds in Pennsylvania: A History of the Bryn Clovis and Brushwood Farms of Chester County

2018
Center for Digital Scholarship
Black-and-white glass lantern slide of three Houma children.

Frank Speck's Lantern Slides

2019
Center for Digital Scholarship; Center for Native American and Indigenous Research