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Ticket sales for off-site tours have ended. If you would like to still attend, email midatlanticmuseums@gmail.com.
This year the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums is excited to offer 6 off-site tours around Philadelphia for conference attendees on Wednesday, October 21, 2015. These tours explore various aspects of museums and galleries from collections to diversity to exhibits, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
Below is the tour schedule. Please note you may only attend one tour per time slot. Below the abbreviated schedule you can find additional descriptions of each tour. There is a $10 fee for each tour and you must purchase sign up in advance to attend these tours as space if limited.
Tour Summary:
1p.m. to 2:30:
Discover University City
1:30 to 4:00 (Choose one):
Philadelphia's Historic Diversity
Designing Exhibitions in Philadelphia Science Museums
3 p.m. to 4:30 (Choose one):
National Museum of American Jewish History and the American Philosophical Society
Chemical Heritage Foundation
DISCOVER UNIVERSITY CITY :
Stop 1: Meet at 3501 Market Street, the lobby of the URBN Center. Visit Drexel's URBN Center, The Pearlstein Gallery.
Stop 2: The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. 118 S. 36th St., Philadelphia PA 19104.
We begin our tour in the URBN Center, home to Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. This remarkable building features an innovative renovation by MS&R of a building originally designed by iconic Philadelphia Robert Venturi. It houses the Pearlstein Gallery, which will be exhibiting highlights from the College's historic costume collection. The exhibit is the first large-scale display of treasures such as a group of renaissance velvets, and 18th century robe a l'anglaise and contemporary couture by Ralph Rucci. After visiting the exhibition we will make our way up the street to the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art. At the end of the tour, participants can stay in the area and walk a few blocks to see the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, or hop a bus back to Center City and a join a second tour.
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PHILADELPHIA'S HISTORIC DIVERSITY
Stop 1--African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch1:30-2:30 pm
Stop 2The President's House, 524-530 Market Street2:45-3:15 pm
Stop 3Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent, 15 S. 7th Street between Market and
This tour will cover three stops dealing with aspects of Philadelphia's rich history of varied communities. We will start at the African American Museum in Philadelphia with its permanent exhibition of this community's history in the city from 1776 to 1876. Next we will visit The President's House, the location where Presidents George Washington and John Adams lived between 1790 and 1800 when Philadelphia was our nation's capital. This site is interpreted to include information on Washington and the enslaved African Americans who served his family. We will finish at the Philadelphia History Museum where the galleries present this "city of neighborhoods."
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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY AND AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Tour will begin at 3 p.m. at the entrance to the National Museum of American Jewish History. We will tour the Museum for approximately 45 minutes and then walk down the street to the American Philosophical Society. The tour will end at 4:30.
The National Museum of American Jewish History is the only Museum in the nation dedicated exclusively to exploring and interpreting the American Jewish experience. As the repository of the largest collection of Jewish Americana in the world, with more than 25,000 objects, the NMAJH has developed extensive institutional experience in preservation, conservation and collections management supporting the fulfillment of its mission to preserve the material culture of American Jews. With its beautiful new building and its state-of-the art exhibitions, the NMAJH provides a moving and inspiring experience. Following our visit we will walk a block to the American Philosophical Society Museum. Founded by Ben Franklin in 1743, the APS is featuring and exhibition titled Jefferson, Science and Exploration which demonstrates the connections between science and national pride and takes visitors up to the eve of Lewis and Clark's journey. Merrill Mason, director of the museum, will tour us through the exhibition.
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DESIGNING EXHIBITIONS IN PHILADELPHIA SCIENCE MUSEUMS
Stop 1Mütter Museum, 19 S. 22nd Street, 1:30-2:30 pm
Stop 2 (choose 1)Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th Street, 3:00-4:00 OR Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 3:00-4:00
Three Philadelphia science museums have created new long-term exhibitions in the last few years. The afternoon will start at the Mütter Museum with its installation on Civil War medicine. There will be a discussion with staff and then the group will walk to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where attendees will have a choice between the Academy of Natural Science's Secrets of the Diorama or the Franklin Institute's Your Brain. At both sites, staff will discuss the development of each project. While held in science museums, this program is appropriate for anyone interested in exhibition interpretative strategies.
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CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION
The Museum at CHF, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
The Museum at Chemical Heritage Foundation reveals chemistry's untold stories. The Museum's permanent exhibition, Making Modernity, shows how chemistry has touched our lives frequently in unexpected ways. Visitors can trace scientific progress in the laboratory, the factory, and their homes and learn how chemistry created and continues to shape the modern world. Registrants will also be able to explore our special exhibit, Science at Play. Chemistry sets and science toys contained much more than vials of chemicals, test tubes, and microscopes. Their colorful boxes also held manufacturers' ambitions for success and prestige, parents' hopes and anxieties for the future lives of their sons and daughters, and children's own desires for fun and excitement. Science at Play is the first major museum exhibit to explore the many facets of these miniature laboratories for children. Drawing from the Chemical Heritage Foundation's own collection of more than 250 science kits and toys, it will lift the lid to reveal hidden stories of enterprise, aspiration, discovery, magic, and mayhem.
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400 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
United States
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