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Before Eastern State Penitentiary closed, music by the prison's inmate band delighted radio audiences

Eastern State Penitentiary music

Rival Bros. Coffee opens shop at Brewerytown's renovated Poth building

Rival Bros Brewerytown

Tun Tavern, birthplace of the Marines, to be reconstructed in Old City

Tun Tavern Marines

For one Chester County family, farming is way of life largely unchanged for three centuries

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Steamer trunk at Weitzman Museum tells the story of Jewish displacement after World War II

Weitzman Museum Philly displaced persons

Before Beatlemania swept the U.S., a Philly record label tried — and failed — to cash in on the Fab Four

Beatles Swan Records Philly

America's oldest drive-in movie theater to celebrate its 90th anniversary

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Museum of the American Revolution to host day camps for kids in April

museum of the american revolution day camps

Philly author's book was inspired by the unsolved murder of an ancestor in Italy

Sicilian Inheritance Jo Piazza

Michael Douglas will play Ben Franklin in upcoming Apple TV+ series

Benjamin Franklin Michael Douglas

The Weitzman Museum, which celebrates Jewish American heritage, may join the Smithsonian

Weitzman Museum Smithsonian

100-year-old WWII veteran from Philly to receive France's highest honor

WWII veteran Legion of Honor

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Museum of the American Revolution to offer family-friendly 'spring break' activities

museum of the american revolution spring break

Philly native's new series explores aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination

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New course series by Science History Institute explores how scientists perpetuated racist myths

Science History Institute series

Penn Relays documentary explores history, cultural significance of annual track meet at Franklin Field

Penn Relays Documentary

Please Touch Museum begins yearslong renovations of Memorial Hall

Please Touch Museum renovations

Chinatown celebration intended to showcase neighborhood and push back against 76ers arena plans

Chinatown celebration

Over a century before the Civil War, this radical Quaker agitated for an end to slavery

Benjamin Lay abolitionist Quaker

Why do so many museums have locks of George Washington's hair?

George Washington portrait

William Penn statue will not be removed from Philly's Welcome Park, NPS says

William Penn statue

Mayor Cherelle Parker delivers hopeful message at inauguration, says 'it's on us' to change Philly

Mayor Charelle Parker inauguration

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American Revolution museum to offer winter-themed activities for kids between Christmas and New Year's

American Revolution Winter

Recalling the 'Rosa Parks of Girard College' and the vital role she played in desegregating the school

Girard College desegregation

Automat dining returns to Philly with arrival of Brooklyn Dumpling Shop

Horn & Hardart Automat

Winter fashion has changed considerably over the last 200 years – from hand-dyed dresses to cropped car coats

Moore winter fashion exhibit

The iron lung seems archaic, but a smaller version — like the one at the Mütter Museum — helped people, even recently

Inside the Archives Mütter Museum

350-million-year-old fossil discovered by Drexel researcher on display in new exhibit at Academy of Natural Sciences

academy of natural sciences Tiktaalik roseae fossil

The SS United States, the ocean liner docked in South Philly, may find a new home as a Manhattan hotel

SS United States Hotel

Bicentennial Bell, given to U.S. by Queen Elizabeth II, to be permanently displayed in Old City

bicentennial bell garden

Bayard Rustin organized the March on Washington. Three months later, the FBI started watching him

Bayard Rustin

Design selected for Philly's permanent Harriet Tubman statue

harriet tubman alvin pettit design philadelphia

MOVE Bombing commemorated with permanent exhibit at Philadelphia's Municipal Services Building

MOVE exhibit

Original member of pioneering '60s girl group to give final performance at Jerry Blavat tribute

Chantels girl group

Who is the Faceless Man that haunts Fort Mifflin?

Fort Mifflin ghost story Howe

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Museum of the American Revolution to recreate British-occupied Philadelphia with costumed soldiers, citizens

Occupied Philadelphia museum event

Mr. Potato Head's forgotten friends from the 1960s live in Philly at the Please Touch Museum

Please Touch Museum potato head

Inside the Archives spotlights items at Philly museums that you won't typically find on display

Inside the Archives museum series

Story of a pioneering queer writer's audacious love life is preserved in the Rosenbach collection

rosenbach Mercedes de Acosta

This 5,000-year-old stone tablet at the Penn Museum is among the oldest examples of writing in the world

Penn ancient tablet

Penn professor, the first woman to translate 'The Odyssey' into English, now breathes new life into 'The Iliad'

Iliad translation penn

Rittenhouse Square stabbing docuseries uses Sean Schellenger's death to explore criminal justice in Philly

Sean Schellenger docuseries

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Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. remains vulnerable to another crisis

COVID 5th Anniversary

Philadelphia Museum of Art to host after-hours party with live music, specialty cocktails

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