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With over 8,000 square feet of flexible rooms and spaces to rent, our venue is an ideal location for meetings, conferences, and special events.
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Overlooking Benjamin Franklin’s house and adjacent to our café area, this versatile conference space can be rented separately or combined.
This flexible breakout-style conference room is designed for smaller groups.
This room creates a unique experience for in-person and virtual attendees with multiple cameras, ceiling microphones, and a view of Independence Park.
Perched above our museum, the adaptable Overlook Lounge is perfect for unwinding between meetings, networking receptions, and group activities.
Join the Science History Institute and help us tell the stories behind the science.
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The Science History Institute tells the stories behind the science.
Named for renowned bibliophile Henry Carrington Bolton, members support activities in our library and are encouraged to donate books.
Schedule a visit, ask a reference question, or apply for a travel grant.
At the Institute, our staff and visiting fellows conduct original research and present new stories to public and scholarly audiences.
Our world-class historic collections are the heart of our free museum and library.
Access more than 150,000 print volumes, including rare books and manuscripts, archival materials, modern books and journals, and historical photographs.
Digital reproductions of materials are available for scholarly and general use.
Anthropologist Jason Pine offers an up-close view of methamphetamine culture in small-town America.
A government oilman maps a hidden realm.
Doctors battle for supremacy in the 17th century.
In a time of rapid technological change and globalization, separating the fake from the real was not always easy. Sound familiar?
Rare alchemical manuscripts displayed next to centuries-old alchemical art.
Travel back in time with us and find out what the world was like when science and the supernatural weren’t so far apart.
Watch historians re-create a recipe for imitation coral, a popular material in early modern jewelry and home décor.
Designers of the 1950s took up the atom and turned it into a fashion icon.
A story of horror, deadly medicine, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Nikola Tesla’s career epitomizes the scientist as showman.
What do ancient Egyptian mummies, early modern medicines, a 19th-century philosopher, and a 21st-century chemist have in common?
Faced with political opposition to his work, the Czech chemist created the first wearable soft contact lens using a set of toys, a hot plate, and a gramophone motor.
For decades science journalists peacefully worked their beat. But trouble came to their ostensibly objective world. How did science writers get caught in the crossfire of the culture wars?
Scientists are known to be dedicated to accuracy. But sometimes, as in the case of Francesco Redi, a sense of humor can lead one astray.