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This private learning experience combines a personally guided exploration of select gallery exhibits and a hands-on study of objects.
This private learning experience combines a personally guided exploration of select gallery exhibits and a hands-on study of objects.
This touch-based tour offers guests a private learning experience that combines a personally guided exploration of select gallery exhibits and a hands-on study of objects from our collections.
Join us for March First Friday as we unveil Philadelphia: Workshop of the World, the latest exhibition from our A Closer Read series.
When you’re ready to learn more about minerals, the Othmer Library at the Science History Institute has you covered.
Riley was a molecular epidemiologist who dedicated his career to issues of health equity.
Explore the history of science behind U.S. efforts to feed schoolchildren with Lunchtime exhibition curator Jesse Smith.
These elements, crystals, gemstones, and precious metals are more than just pretty rocks.
How a tiny cactus parasite called cochineal became one of the Spanish Empire’s most lucrative commodities.
Vera Charles was a pioneer in the study of fungi and one of the first women to specialize in plant pathology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Food historian Russell Thomas traces the remarkable journey of tofu from its ancient origins in East Asia to its global rise as a staple of modern plant-based cuisine.
The story of teacher John Scopes violating the law by teaching evolution is well known. But is it true?
Does nature have rights? In 2008, Ecuador said yes. Doing so forced a reckoning with the country’s mining past.
Historical re-creations reveal the working world of alchemists.
When Prussia and France went to war in 1870, only one man was given passage out of Paris—in the name of science.
In the 1970s, a cheesy American medical drama helped make the case for paramedics.
A physician who studied bacteria, Petri’s name became associated with small covered dishes that are essential to laboratory research in the life sciences.
Meet Jehane Benoît, Canada’s grande dame of culinary nationalism.
The forest owlet was declared extinct in 1972, but after Richard Meinertzhagen’s vast fraud was exposed, ornithologists wondered if they got it wrong.
New World ingredients in Old World dyes.
What does the inspiration for the character of James Bond have to do with a bird specimen scandal?
A leading chemistry educator and musician who proposed a new periodic table of elements to explain the unusual structures of boron hydrides.
Changing the name of the Anophthalmus hitleri seems like an easy call, but taxonomists have resisted for complicated reasons.
Nestled next to our Othmer Library, this soaring event space is perfect for cocktail receptions and sit-down dinners.
The Bird of Washington catapulted John Audubon into fame and fortune. The only problem? It was a complete fraud.
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!