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Join us in our museum EVERY SATURDAY for a family-friendly program that highlights strange and surprising stories from the history of science!
Join us in our museum EVERY SATURDAY for a family-friendly program that highlights strange and surprising stories from the history of science!
Join us in our museum EVERY SATURDAY for a family-friendly program that highlights strange and surprising stories from the history of science!
Meet scientists doing cutting-edge research in physics, medicine, biochemistry, and more.
Join us for a night of “whodunits” and solve a historical forensics murder mystery.
Explore how artists capture the colors of nature through pigments, paints, and dyes.
Learn how historians and social scientists reconstruct lethal events forgotten by the general public.
Beat the heat with an evening of summer-themed science!
Join us for July’s First Friday celebrating the opening of our latest ExhibitLab, ‘Migrating Science: Stories of Immigration and Innovation.’
ReJoyce! The Science History Institute joins the Rosenbach for its annual Bloomsday celebration of James Joyce.
Explore the history of bacteriophages and what is being done to harness their power for treating challenging diseases.
All Philadelphia-area college students are invited to visit us during CollegeFest, Campus Philly’s annual “Welcome to Philadelphia!” celebration.
From Rachel Carson to ACT UP, explore how scientists and activists have shaped discovery and created change.
Drop in for a tour highlighting the central role of women in shaping chemistry and the material sciences throughout history.
From Rachel Carson to ACT UP, explore how scientists and activists have shaped discovery and created change.
This “drop-in” tour explores the importance of water and the histories of pollution and protection.
Water animates our world! See how artists and animators bring it to the big screen.
Join us for a free Varsity Tutors virtual class on the elusive pursuit of predicting the weather.
Celebrate the opening of our outdoor exhibition exploring the intersections of environmentalism, education, and fun!
At this Varsity Tutors virtual class we learn about Jewish scientists whose pursuit of knowledge triumphed over war and persecution.
Jocelyn McDaniel presents the German Society of Pennsylvania’s Günther Finke Memorial Lecture.
Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.
Historians David Barnes and Rana Hogarth led an exploration of the disease’s legacy, followed by a guided tour of America’s first quarantine station.
Watch former UCL curator Subhadra Das discuss the work of the little-known Victorian scientist who coined the term ‘eugenics.’
Thanks to everyone who attended our ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ launch party and kick-off celebration!
Watch a recording of medical historian Deirdre Cooper Owens discuss her work at the intersection of science, race, and gender.
Join us for a Fellow in Focus lecture on the joy, challenge, and urgency of writing about our environments.
Drop in for a tour highlighting the central role of women in shaping chemistry and the material sciences throughout history.
Louis Gerdelan shows how interactions among scientists, doctors, astrologers, and churchmen formed the foundations of modern disaster reporting.
From Rachel Carson to ACT UP, explore how scientists and activists have shaped discovery and created change.