Top things to do for visitors, each linked to its official source.
Philadelphia Metro Area
📍 Logan Square
Anthropologist Meredith Small, Professor Emerita at Cornell University, presents her new book Family; How the Need for Connection Shapes and Forms Our Lives.
Official site ↗📍 University City
Bring a blanket & snack and meet us at 43rd St. & Chester Ave. near the Clark Park playground for stories, songs, fun & bubbles!
Official site ↗📍 FDR Park
As you pedal around, use the kid-friendly binoculars provided to spot turtles, ducks, blooming flowers, and maybe even a great blue heron – the long-legged shorebird the boats are shaped after.
Official site ↗📍 Chestnut Hill
Kick off your weekend celebration with a trip around the world!
Official site ↗📍 Southwest Philly
Join Paschalville Library for an afternoon of fall fun with arts & crafts activities and a movie screening for all ages!
Official site ↗📍 Bella Vista
Join us for a special Halloween storytime with Ms. Lindsay and parade around the library!
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Beetles are the most successful organism on the planet and play a critical role in the ecological functions supporting life on earth.
Official site ↗📍 Bustleton
Add your story to a large-scale community artwork celebrating the Bustleton community, past and present.
Official site ↗📍 Frankford
Come trick or treat at the library and join us for spooky Halloween themed crafts.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Join us in Room 108 on the First Floor Free for an historical overview of immigration and how federal law affected attitudional reactions to immigrants overtime.
Official site ↗📍 Kingsessing
Ever wonder what makes a bird a bird? Our avian friends have many qualities that make them unique.
Official site ↗📍 FDR Park
We welcome all people to explore cultural identity through the story of Scandinavians
Official site ↗📍 Rittenhouse
Dr. Hazel Ann Lee, poet and author, discusses her science fiction book The Astronaut’s Window: Collection of Poems and Short Stories Celebrating Nature.
Official site ↗📍 Rittenhouse
Hear award-winning local author Sophia Demas who's book Conciousness Beyond Death examines consciousness; she will discuss the numerous miracles she has experienced and written about in books.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Hear from the Rising From Ground Zero authors about 9/11 and the FDNY's Path through Crisis to Transformation
Official site ↗📍 Rittenhouse
Celebrated author of Swallow, Mary Cappello returns with a new lyrically exuberant book set in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood where her mother, Rosemary, a beloved community organizer, poet, and long-time editor of Philadelphia Poets, lived and died.
Official site ↗📍 Germantown
Once the home of a prominent Quaker family, the Arboretum has been free and open to the public for over 100 years.
Official site ↗📍 Southwest Philly
This public park spans nearly 50 acres in Southwest Philadelphia, offering peace, rest, and connection.
Official site ↗📍 Franklin Court
Explore Franklin's life and character in the Benjamin Franklin Museum.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
The names of nearly 150 North American bird species have not aged well, ruffling feathers in the ornithological world.
Official site ↗📍 Delaware River Waterfront
The Pier is free to enter and open to the public.
Official site ↗📍 Old City
Walk in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers.
Official site ↗📍 Center City
The City Hall Tower Tour offers a panoramic view of Philadelphia's landscape from 548 feet above ground.
Official site ↗📍 University City
Philly’s oldest year-round market
Official site ↗📍 FDR Park
As you pedal around, use the kid-friendly binoculars provided to spot turtles, ducks, blooming flowers, and maybe even a great blue heron – the long-legged shorebird the boats are shaped after.
Official site ↗📍 Independence Square
Presidents Washington and Adams were both inaugurated in this building.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Marie Gottschalk is the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the winner of the Robert F.
Official site ↗📍 Kingsessing
Join us for a free community event for people living with eczema and their families!
Official site ↗📍 Old City
Elfreth's Alley is one of the oldest continuously inhabited residential streets in the United States.
Official site ↗📍 Fairmount
The Food Trust Farmers Markets make fruits and vegetables more affordable to everyone.
Official site ↗📍 Fairmount
Learn about the Water Works’ noteworthy beginnings in the early 19th century as Philadelphia’s water pumping station
Official site ↗📍 Olney
Join Larry Farmbry for a 2-hour program designed to inform adult and senior participants on the many facets of financial planning.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
In each story, everyday people are searching for something after a rough, weird day.
Official site ↗📍 Bustleton
Join us for crafts and games! This program is for school-age children, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Official site ↗📍 Queen Village
The church grounds at Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site are open daily from 5AM to 11PM.
Official site ↗📍 Society Hill
one of the city’s largest outdoor markets
Official site ↗📍 East Fairmount Park
Park Historic Houses filled with antiques, fine art, and collectible treasures from the 18th and 19th century
Official site ↗📍 Old City
See the room where the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were both signed.
Official site ↗📍 Penn's Landing
Climb aboard the oldest steel warship afloat in the world.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
This hands-on session introduces the next evolution of AI: agentic AI - AI systems that can move beyond providing an answer to planning, researching, using tools, and completing a series of steps toward a goal.
Official site ↗📍 East Falls
While active burial sites, Laurel Hill is also an arboretum that provides public green space for recreation and education.
Official site ↗📍 University City
Join the Wagner Free Institute of Science as they visit and teach us all about fossils.
Official site ↗📍 Old City
The building also offers self-guided exhibits about this now famous symbol of liberty.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
This event is part of the speaker series for Ink & Impact: The Legacy of the Philadelphia Tribune, an exhibit opening October 5th in the News & Microfilm Department.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Join Field Teen Center and author Dior Brown for a casual conversation about beeing a teenage author!
Official site ↗📍 Chestnut Hill
Morris Arboretum & Gardens is a 92-acre public garden in Chestnut Hill, where plants, people, and place come together.
Official site ↗📍 Old City
Explore the Museum's historic Old City Philadelphia neighborhood with stops at iconic Revolutionary-era sites on daily expert-guided walking tours.
Official site ↗📍 Rittenhouse
Explore the complex histories of medicine, engage in dialogue about well-being, and expand your understanding of the human body with us.
Official site ↗📍 University City
Staring at the page and looking to level up your craft?
Official site ↗📍 Holmesburg
Join educators from Pennypack Environmental Center to discover the owls that call Philadelphia home.
Official site ↗📍 University City
A million world wonders. 10,000 years of history.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Join us for Philadelphia A to Z, a program that explores a fascinating collection of lost Philadelphia stories, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Official site ↗📍 Fairmount
Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the museum’s most renowned treasures.
Official site ↗📍 Fairmount Park
The state-of-the-art facility brings you closer to our bears than ever before, with a new Zoo360 trail and larger, upgraded habitats.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Legendary children's author and illustrator Rosemary Wells will read aloud in the Montgomery Auditorium at Parkway Central Library.
Official site ↗📍 Center City
The Reading Terminal Market Corporation is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation
Official site ↗📍 Parkway
home to one of the largest public collections of Rodin’s work outside Paris
Official site ↗📍 FDR Park
We’ll hike around multiple spots in the park that serve as sanctuaries and feeding grounds for different bird species.
Official site ↗📍 West Philadelphia
The first Thursday of the month, a different agency will provide information and resources relevant to older adults, in an informal, congenial atmosphere around the table over a nice cup of tea or coffee.
Official site ↗📍 East Park
Our one-of-a-kind historic Playhouse offers three floors of interactive play.
Official site ↗📍 Bella Vista
the heart and soul of Philadelphia’s oldest outdoor market place and heritage.
Official site ↗📍 Callowhill
The Rail Park Phase One is free & open daily
Official site ↗📍 North Philadelphia
Our upstairs exhibit hall houses over 100,000 natural specimens, including ancient fossils, glowing minerals and animals from around the globe!
Official site ↗📍 Independence Mall
America’s fight for freedom on view in the spot where it was fought
Official site ↗📍 Chestnut Hill
Welcome to Woodmere, where we tell the stories of the art and artists of Philadelphia.
Official site ↗📍 Logan Square
Join us at Parkway Central Library for an RN-led candid conversation on Advance Care Planning.
Official site ↗📍 Old City
Have a chat with Betsy in person as she plies her trade, stitching reproduction Colonial-era fabrics in her upholstery shop.
Official site ↗📍 Fairmount
Step inside the world’s first penitentiary, a bold 19th century experiment in justice reform.
Official site ↗📍 Old City
Exhibits in the building highlight the role of art and artifacts in American history and diplomacy.
Official site ↗📍 Tinicum
Visitors to the refuge may observe hundreds of species of plants, trees, birds, insects and mammals.
Official site ↗📍 Pennsport
has been on the corner of Weccacoe and Snyder Avenue since 1930 when Domenico Bucci started the family business.
Official site ↗📍 Old City
The back bar was crafted by German woodworkers and used in the Centennial Celebration in 1876 prior to its use at Khyber Pass.
Official site ↗📍 Manayunk
Our location on the river affords us one of the largest outdoor decks in Philadelphia
Official site ↗📍 Independence Mall
The National Constitution Center serves as America’s leading platform for constitutional education and debate.
Official site ↗📍 Kensington
By adapting old world beer styles with modern brewing techniques, we have developed unique flavors that represent Philadelphia proudly.
Official site ↗📍 Fishtown
Experience Philadelphia Distilling where our spirits are made.
Official site ↗📍 Parkway
In the Barnes collection, artworks are arranged in ensembles that emphasize visual relationships—there are no labels like you would see in a typical museum.
Official site ↗📍 Parkway
Explore the night sky with cutting-edge astronomical presentations in the awe-inspiring Fels Planetarium.
Official site ↗📍 Rittenhouse
The Rosenbach Museum & Library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
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