The spring General Meeting of the American Philosophical Society is April 25–27. Read the program and live stream the proceedings. 

Exhibitions

Current and upcoming
Sunset on Missouri

Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850

April 12, 2024- December 29, 2024
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Exhibitions archive
An image of an engraving of a bird's eye view of the port of Philadelphia from the Delaware River with ships.

Investigating Indentured Servitude: Visualizing Experiences of Colonial America

2020
Center for Digital Scholarship
19th-century coal miners outside of mine

Old Country in the New World: Saint Clair, a 19th-Century Coal Community

Online only
Letter with burned edges

Colonization in the Foulke Papers

Center for Digital Scholarship
Drawing of people reading pamphlet

Joining the Fray: Mapping a World of Paine

2015
Center for Digital Scholarship
text

Children in the Archives

two men at microphone

Great Talks at the American Philosophical Society, a Podcast

red brick building coated in the late afternoon sun

In the Heart of Philadelphia: The Story of Library Hall

2018
Center for Digital Scholarship
Drawing of groundhog

No Taxonomy without Representation

2013
Lobby exhibition
Photograph of seated man with spirit woman behind him

Beyond the Grave: A Brief History of Spirit Photography

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
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
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