| Sat., Mar. 20 | |||||||||
| Event | Location | Description | Time | Price | |||||
| 19TH-CENTURY PATENT MODELS: INNOVATION IN MINIATURE | Hagley Museum & Library | Features patent models that show the progress of 19th-century inventions and technology, with more than 120 miniature inventions on display. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $4-$11 | |||||
| AFRICA, ASIA & NORTH AMERICA | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?) | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| AMAZING MACHINE | Franklin Institute | Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 free for members
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| ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| ARTIST- IN- RESIDENCE PATRICK DOUGHERTY | Morris Arboretum | Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve. | 10am-5pm | $7-$14 | |||||
| BUTTERFLY GARDENS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features a variety of native plant species that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles and other wildlife. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| C.R. ETTINGER STUDIO SELECTIONS FROM 2000 TO 2010 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | twenty-five artists, including master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger, are featured in this exhibition. Part of Philagrafika 2010. | $10-$15 $10 for children (ages 5 to 18); $12 for students and seniors; $15 for adults
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| CAI GUO-QIANG: FALLEN BLOSSOMS | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Includes gunpowder drawings and an installation of suspended gold boats. | $12-$16 $12 for children (ages 13 to 18) and students; $14 for seniors; $16 for adults.
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| CARETOONS | National Liberty Museum | Features 20 winning entries from an international contest for cartoonists. Each work presents a message of peace and caring. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| COMING TO AMERICA | Independence Seaport Museum | Features a first-hand experience of what it was like for immigrants who traveled to Washington Avenue. View photos, listen to oral histories of immigrants, and climb into a ship's steerage compartment where many immigrants stayed during the journey. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| DARWIN AND EVOLUTION | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features artifacts and documents guiding visitors through Darwin's life and experiences, and the discovery of his groundbreaking theory. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| DINOSAUR GALLERY | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features the only permanent display of dinosaurs in the state. The gallery's Science in Action Lab allows visitors to watch volunteers prepare real paleontology specimens. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| DINOSAUR HALL | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features fossilized skeletons of more than 30 species of dinosaurs and a hands-on exhibit where visitors can search for dinosaur bones in the sand and dirt. | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| FILL ‘ER UP! VINTAGE GAS STATIONS OF BUCKS COUNTY | Mercer Museum | Features photographs of filling stations from the '20s to the '60s to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American oil industry. | 10am-5pm | $4-$15 | |||||
| THE FRANKLIN AIR SHOW | Franklin Institute | Features model and life-sized airplanes, a flight simulator and sound effects that are designed to make you feel as if you're in the middle of a live air show. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| FRANKLIN: HE'S ELECTRIC | Franklin Institute | Features a variety of Benjamin Franklin's belongings and inventions, including a lens, lightning rod and bifocals. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| THE GIANT HEART: A HEALTHY INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE | Franklin Institute | Features a massive model of a human heart that you can walk through, and which has interactive stations that pertain to blood, health, anatomy and heart ailments. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| GIMME SHELTER | Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education | Features six semi-permanent, functional shelters within the woodlands of the Schuylkill Center. Designed by both artists and architects, the pieces include a bird-seed shelter and a woodland canopy. | 8:30am-5pm | FREE | |||||
| HALL OF BIRDS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features bird specimens and nests on display. Highlights include an extinct passenger pigeon and 3-D dioramas of the birds in their habitats. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| INSPIRING FASHION: GIFTS FROM DESIGNERS HONORING TOM MAROTTA | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features examples of contemporary evening wear designs that were given as gifts to Tom Marotta, the vice president of couture for Saks Fifth Avenue. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| ISAMU NOGUCHI | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features a selection of sculptures from the titular Japanese-American artist. Many of Noguchi's sculptures have untouched surfaces of stone, as he believed that sculpting should maintain the original form of its materials. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| JOEL N. BLOOM OBSERVATORY | Franklin Institute | Features refractor and reflector telescopes that provide an up-close look at planets, stars and other galaxies. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| JUN KANEKO | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features four sculptures from the Japanese artist's Mission Clay Project. The large ceramic works are referred to by Kaneko as "dangos," which means "rounded form" in Japanese. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| LIVE BUTTERFLIES | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features an indoor tropical garden swarming with butterflies of all shapes, sizes and colors. There are also chambers where visitors can see pupae emerging and compare butterfly metamorphosis to the development of other species. | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| MAY YOUR GLASS BE EVER FULL | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features an assortment of objects used to consume alcoholic beverages from 17th- and 18th-century Europe. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| NEW PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS | National Liberty Museum | Features a wall-sized portrait of every U.S. president, including the newly elected Barack Obama. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| OLYMPIA: LAUNCHING THE AMERICAN CENTURY | Independence Seaport Museum | Features documents and artifacts exploring the U.S. Navy at the time of the Spanish-American War, as well as the role of the USS Olympia ship. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| ORDINARY PEOPLE: EXTRAORDINARY ACTS | National Liberty Museum | Features paintings and photography that depict the story of ordinary heroes: the woman who jumped onto train tracks to save a stranger, the professor who sacrificed his life to save his students during the Virginia Tech massacre, and many others. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| OUTSIDE IN | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features a hands-on discovery center where children can explore the outdoors inside. Visitors may touch a real meteorite, look for fossil footprints and watch a working beehive. Also, animals like rabbits and tortoises visit the exhibit every day. | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| PEACE SEEKERS | National Liberty Museum | Features the stories of 20 individuals and organizations that are trying to bring about international peace, including celebrities like Elie Wiesel and Bono, religious figures like Pope John Paul II, and organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the Bill Gates Foundation. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| PEAKS OF FAITH: BUDDHIST ART OF THE HIMALAYAS | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features Buddhist masterpieces from the Himalayan region of Asia. Works range from bronze sculptures to paintings rich in cultural and spiritual meaning. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| PHILADELPHIA PROTOTYPE, 2002 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Features an installation by minimalist painter Robert Ryman. Ryman's work consists of 10 vinyl sheets attached to the wall by acrylic paint, displaying the artist's interest in painting directly onto the wall. | 10am-5pm | $10-$15 | |||||
| SHELL GALLERY | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features a simulation of the Great Barrier Reef, a 500-pound giant clam shell, models of mollusks and a variety of real shells that visitors can touch and play with. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| SIR ISAAC'S LOFT | Franklin Institute | Features paintings by imaginary artists, grouped in a faux art gallery in order to demonstrate scientific concepts. Also, a movie screen simulates different principles of physics, from the mechanics of levers to the composition of atoms. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| SPACE COMMAND | Franklin Institute | Features 30 interactive stations about space exploration, which allow visitors to play with telescopes, learn about the history of space exploration and try on astronaut suits. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| SPORTS CHALLENGE | Franklin Institute | Features a 5,500-square-foot stadium with Astro Turf and a Jumbo Tron screen, full of virtual reality games that allow visitors to embrace their inner athletes. The exhibit focuses on how science plays an important role in sports. Now that's something a Wii can't teach. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| STORIES AND IMAGES IN EAST ASIAN ART | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features a cross-cultural collection of Korean screen paintings and Chinese ceramics, the latter of which feature narrative designs from novels and legends. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| SUCCESSION | Seraphin Gallery | Recent paintings and drawings by Philadelphia artist Joan Wadleigh Curran. | 6-6pm | FREE | |||||
| THE TRACT HOUSE: A DARWIN ADDITION | American Philosophical Society | Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach, working with the American Philosophical Society Museum as part of Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print, solicited tracts—manifestos, diatribes, stories, rants, poems, lyrics, etc.—written by the general public, friends, neighbors, artists, poets, and even pundits in response to Charles Darwin’s life and ideas. | 11am-5pm | FREE | |||||
| THE TRAIN FACTORY | Franklin Institute | Features interactive stations about how trains work, including one that allows visitors to keep the Baldwin 60000 train running by adding coal and tinkering with the controls. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| TREE ADVENTURE | Morris Arboretum | Features several installations and stations where visitors can learn about trees and their relationship to people. The main attraction, "Out on a Limb," takes visitors 50 feet up in the air for a bird's-eye view of Morris' gardens. | 10am-5pm | $7-$14 | |||||
| WHARTON ESHERICK OUTHOUSE | Wharton Esherick Museum | Features a reconstruction of Wharton Esherick's three-sided outhouse, which was inspired by the 1919 film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary." | 10am-5pm | $5-$10 | |||||
| WHAT FLOATS YOUR BOAT? | Independence Seaport Museum | Features interactive stations exploring the science, history and artistic skill behind boat construction. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| Sun., Mar. 21 | |||||||||
| Event | Location | Description | Time | Price | |||||
| 19TH-CENTURY PATENT MODELS: INNOVATION IN MINIATURE | Hagley Museum & Library | Features patent models that show the progress of 19th-century inventions and technology, with more than 120 miniature inventions on display. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $4-$11 | |||||
| AFRICA, ASIA & NORTH AMERICA | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?) | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| AMAZING MACHINE | Franklin Institute | Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 free for members
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| ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive. | noon-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| ARTIST- IN- RESIDENCE PATRICK DOUGHERTY | Morris Arboretum | Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve. | 10am-5pm | $7-$14 | |||||
| BUTTERFLY GARDENS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features a variety of native plant species that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles and other wildlife. | noon-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| C.R. ETTINGER STUDIO SELECTIONS FROM 2000 TO 2010 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | twenty-five artists, including master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger, are featured in this exhibition. Part of Philagrafika 2010. | $10-$15 $10 for children (ages 5 to 18); $12 for students and seniors; $15 for adults
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| CAI GUO-QIANG: FALLEN BLOSSOMS | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Includes gunpowder drawings and an installation of suspended gold boats. | $12-$16 $12 for children (ages 13 to 18) and students; $14 for seniors; $16 for adults.
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| CARETOONS | National Liberty Museum | Features 20 winning entries from an international contest for cartoonists. Each work presents a message of peace and caring. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| COMING TO AMERICA | Independence Seaport Museum | Features a first-hand experience of what it was like for immigrants who traveled to Washington Avenue. View photos, listen to oral histories of immigrants, and climb into a ship's steerage compartment where many immigrants stayed during the journey. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| DARWIN AND EVOLUTION | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features artifacts and documents guiding visitors through Darwin's life and experiences, and the discovery of his groundbreaking theory. | noon-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| DINOSAUR GALLERY | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features the only permanent display of dinosaurs in the state. The gallery's Science in Action Lab allows visitors to watch volunteers prepare real paleontology specimens. | noon-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| DINOSAUR HALL | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features fossilized skeletons of more than 30 species of dinosaurs and a hands-on exhibit where visitors can search for dinosaur bones in the sand and dirt. | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| FILL ‘ER UP! VINTAGE GAS STATIONS OF BUCKS COUNTY | Mercer Museum | Features photographs of filling stations from the '20s to the '60s to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American oil industry. | noon-5pm | $4-$15 | |||||
| THE FRANKLIN AIR SHOW | Franklin Institute | Features model and life-sized airplanes, a flight simulator and sound effects that are designed to make you feel as if you're in the middle of a live air show. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| FRANKLIN: HE'S ELECTRIC | Franklin Institute | Features a variety of Benjamin Franklin's belongings and inventions, including a lens, lightning rod and bifocals. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| THE GIANT HEART: A HEALTHY INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE | Franklin Institute | Features a massive model of a human heart that you can walk through, and which has interactive stations that pertain to blood, health, anatomy and heart ailments. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| HALL OF BIRDS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features bird specimens and nests on display. Highlights include an extinct passenger pigeon and 3-D dioramas of the birds in their habitats. | noon-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| INSPIRING FASHION: GIFTS FROM DESIGNERS HONORING TOM MAROTTA | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features examples of contemporary evening wear designs that were given as gifts to Tom Marotta, the vice president of couture for Saks Fifth Avenue. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| ISAMU NOGUCHI | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features a selection of sculptures from the titular Japanese-American artist. Many of Noguchi's sculptures have untouched surfaces of stone, as he believed that sculpting should maintain the original form of its materials. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| JOEL N. BLOOM OBSERVATORY | Franklin Institute | Features refractor and reflector telescopes that provide an up-close look at planets, stars and other galaxies. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| JUN KANEKO | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features four sculptures from the Japanese artist's Mission Clay Project. The large ceramic works are referred to by Kaneko as "dangos," which means "rounded form" in Japanese. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| LIVE BUTTERFLIES | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features an indoor tropical garden swarming with butterflies of all shapes, sizes and colors. There are also chambers where visitors can see pupae emerging and compare butterfly metamorphosis to the development of other species. | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| MAY YOUR GLASS BE EVER FULL | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features an assortment of objects used to consume alcoholic beverages from 17th- and 18th-century Europe. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| NEW PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS | National Liberty Museum | Features a wall-sized portrait of every U.S. president, including the newly elected Barack Obama. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| OLYMPIA: LAUNCHING THE AMERICAN CENTURY | Independence Seaport Museum | Features documents and artifacts exploring the U.S. Navy at the time of the Spanish-American War, as well as the role of the USS Olympia ship. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| ORDINARY PEOPLE: EXTRAORDINARY ACTS | National Liberty Museum | Features paintings and photography that depict the story of ordinary heroes: the woman who jumped onto train tracks to save a stranger, the professor who sacrificed his life to save his students during the Virginia Tech massacre, and many others. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| OUTSIDE IN | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features a hands-on discovery center where children can explore the outdoors inside. Visitors may touch a real meteorite, look for fossil footprints and watch a working beehive. Also, animals like rabbits and tortoises visit the exhibit every day. | 10am-5pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| PEACE SEEKERS | National Liberty Museum | Features the stories of 20 individuals and organizations that are trying to bring about international peace, including celebrities like Elie Wiesel and Bono, religious figures like Pope John Paul II, and organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the Bill Gates Foundation. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| PEAKS OF FAITH: BUDDHIST ART OF THE HIMALAYAS | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features Buddhist masterpieces from the Himalayan region of Asia. Works range from bronze sculptures to paintings rich in cultural and spiritual meaning. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| PHILADELPHIA PROTOTYPE, 2002 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Features an installation by minimalist painter Robert Ryman. Ryman's work consists of 10 vinyl sheets attached to the wall by acrylic paint, displaying the artist's interest in painting directly onto the wall. | 11am-5pm | $10-$15 | |||||
| SHAPING SPACE, MAKING MEANING | National Museum of American Jewish History | Features sketches, computer-generated images and videos that give viewers an inside perspective on the process of curating a museum exhibition. | noon-5pm | FREE | |||||
| SHELL GALLERY | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features a simulation of the Great Barrier Reef, a 500-pound giant clam shell, models of mollusks and a variety of real shells that visitors can touch and play with. | noon-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| SIR ISAAC'S LOFT | Franklin Institute | Features paintings by imaginary artists, grouped in a faux art gallery in order to demonstrate scientific concepts. Also, a movie screen simulates different principles of physics, from the mechanics of levers to the composition of atoms. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| SPACE COMMAND | Franklin Institute | Features 30 interactive stations about space exploration, which allow visitors to play with telescopes, learn about the history of space exploration and try on astronaut suits. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| SPORTS CHALLENGE | Franklin Institute | Features a 5,500-square-foot stadium with Astro Turf and a Jumbo Tron screen, full of virtual reality games that allow visitors to embrace their inner athletes. The exhibit focuses on how science plays an important role in sports. Now that's something a Wii can't teach. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| STORIES AND IMAGES IN EAST ASIAN ART | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Features a cross-cultural collection of Korean screen paintings and Chinese ceramics, the latter of which feature narrative designs from novels and legends. | 10am-5pm | $12-$16 | |||||
| SUCCESSION | Seraphin Gallery | Recent paintings and drawings by Philadelphia artist Joan Wadleigh Curran. | 6-6pm | FREE | |||||
| THE TRACT HOUSE: A DARWIN ADDITION | American Philosophical Society | Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach, working with the American Philosophical Society Museum as part of Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print, solicited tracts—manifestos, diatribes, stories, rants, poems, lyrics, etc.—written by the general public, friends, neighbors, artists, poets, and even pundits in response to Charles Darwin’s life and ideas. | 11am-5pm | FREE | |||||
| THE TRAIN FACTORY | Franklin Institute | Features interactive stations about how trains work, including one that allows visitors to keep the Baldwin 60000 train running by adding coal and tinkering with the controls. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 | |||||
| TREE ADVENTURE | Morris Arboretum | Features several installations and stations where visitors can learn about trees and their relationship to people. The main attraction, "Out on a Limb," takes visitors 50 feet up in the air for a bird's-eye view of Morris' gardens. | 10am-5pm | $7-$14 | |||||
| WHARTON ESHERICK OUTHOUSE | Wharton Esherick Museum | Features a reconstruction of Wharton Esherick's three-sided outhouse, which was inspired by the 1919 film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary." | 1-5pm | $5-$10 | |||||
| WHAT FLOATS YOUR BOAT? | Independence Seaport Museum | Features interactive stations exploring the science, history and artistic skill behind boat construction. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| Mon., Mar. 22 | |||||||||
| Event | Location | Description | Time | Price | |||||
| 19TH-CENTURY PATENT MODELS: INNOVATION IN MINIATURE | Hagley Museum & Library | Features patent models that show the progress of 19th-century inventions and technology, with more than 120 miniature inventions on display. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $4-$11 | |||||
| AFRICA, ASIA & NORTH AMERICA | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?) | 10am-4:30pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| AMAZING MACHINE | Franklin Institute | Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock. | 9:30am-5pm | $12-$14.75 free for members
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| ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| ARTIST- IN- RESIDENCE PATRICK DOUGHERTY | Morris Arboretum | Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve. | 10am-4pm | $7-$14 | |||||
| BUTTERFLY GARDENS | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features a variety of native plant species that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles and other wildlife. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| C.R. ETTINGER STUDIO SELECTIONS FROM 2000 TO 2010 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | twenty-five artists, including master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger, are featured in this exhibition. Part of Philagrafika 2010. | $10-$15 $10 for children (ages 5 to 18); $12 for students and seniors; $15 for adults
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| CARETOONS | National Liberty Museum | Features 20 winning entries from an international contest for cartoonists. Each work presents a message of peace and caring. | 10am-5pm | $2-$7 | |||||
| CHARLES WILLSON PEALE AND HIS FAMILY AT BELFIELD | La Salle University Art Museum | Features artworks by Charles Willson Peale and the most prominent artists in his family, including his brother james, his children Rembrandt, Titian, Rubens and Raphaelle, his niece Sarah Miriam as well as his granddaughter Mary Jane. | 10am-4pm | FREE | |||||
| COMING TO AMERICA | Independence Seaport Museum | Features a first-hand experience of what it was like for immigrants who traveled to Washington Avenue. View photos, listen to oral histories of immigrants, and climb into a ship's steerage compartment where many immigrants stayed during the journey. | 10am-5pm | $7-$12 | |||||
| DARWIN AND EVOLUTION | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features artifacts and documents guiding visitors through Darwin's life and experiences, and the discovery of his groundbreaking theory. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| DINOSAUR GALLERY | Delaware Museum of Natural History | Features the only permanent display of dinosaurs in the state. The gallery's Science in Action Lab allows visitors to watch volunteers prepare real paleontology specimens. | 9:30am-4:30pm | $5-$7 | |||||
| DINOSAUR HALL | Academy of Natural Sciences | Features fossilized skeletons of more than 30 species of dinosaurs and a hands-on exhibit where visitors can search for dinosaur bones in the sand and dirt. | 10am-4:30pm | $10-$12 | |||||
| FILL ‘ER UP! VINTAGE GAS STATIONS OF BUCKS COUNTY | Mercer Museum | Features photographs of filling stations from the '20s to the '60s to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American oil industry. | 10am-5pm | $4-$15 | |||||
