Museums

Alumnus works ‘to inspire passion’ for science and technology

05 December 2017 Emily Trinh

Larry Dubinski, a Beasley School of Law alumnus and CEO of The Franklin Institute, was appointed as the chair-elect of the Association of Science-Technology Centers in November.

Museum celebrates ‘ordinary, extraordinary’ Black women

04 April 2017 Quang Do

Vashti DuBois converted her small Germantown home into the Colored Girls Museum.

Temple represented at D.C. African American museum

11 October 2016 Erin Moran

The Smithsonian’s new African-American museum features several Temple ties.

Seeing science: history through slides

07 June 2016 Alexa Zizzi

The Wagner Free Institute hosted a presentation on early visual media forms.

Rediscovering the past

29 March 2016 Eamon Dreisbach

Kristofer Helgen explores museum collections for overlooked species.

Jeff Kinslow (left), and Allison Cahill play a game of circular billiards at the “Alice in Wonderland” 150th anniversary exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum. | Margo Reed TTN

Museum celebrates ‘Alice in Wonderland’

03 November 2015 Sami Rahman

The Rosenbach highlights connections between the famous book and Philadelphia.

Museum displays Bram Stoker’s notes

27 October 2015 Erin Moran

The author’s handwritten notes on the famous novel “Dracula” are on display for Halloween.

Museum crafts new brew for pop-up garden

01 September 2015 Logan Beck

Guests had an exclusive taste of custom beer in the Mütter Museum’s medicinal plant garden.

Accessibility for museums questioned

14 April 2015 Angela Gervasi

Philly has long been an apex for galleries, but access to them differs throughout the city.

Visitors get a taste of the prison lifestyle

28 June 2013 Sarae Gdovin

During Prison Food Weekend at Eastern State Penitentiary, vistors sampled a variety of meals spanning over the its decades of operation.