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February 7, 2012

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  • The Annual Center City House Tour

    A delight for the architecturally inclined

    A delight for the architecturally inclined

  • 1812 Productions

    Comedy work in all forms

    1812's This is the Week, featuring Steven Wright & Susan Riley Stevens

    Bring tissues because the producers swear you’ll laugh until you cry.

  • 2011 Philadelphia CineFest

    The celebration of global filmmaking returns this spring

    The Philadelphia CineFest returns in 2011 with eight days of incredible films from around the globe.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    1871 by Randolph Rogers

    Statue of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation.

    It may seem an unadventurous pose — sitting in a chair, holding a quill pen — but sculptor Randolph Rogers caught Lincoln in a heroic moment, signing the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Adventure Aquarium

    The ocean’s secrets revealed at Camden’s riverfront aquarium

    Adventure Aquarium

    The fifth largest aquarium in the country, Adventure Aquarium features nearly 200,000 square feet of marine and wild life, including hippos, a hammerhead shark and more.

  • Aero Memorial

    1948 by Paul Manship

    Aero Memorial

    To commemorate aviators who died in World War I, sculptor Paul Manship created an open bronze sphere that suggests the heavens and the earth, with intricate intertwined forms evoking the signs of the zodiac.

  • AIA Bookstore & Design Center

    A fun, sophisticated store selling architecture books, unique designer gifts, and creative children’s toys

    The AIA Bookstore & Design Center is a recognized leader in architecture books, unique designer gifts, and creative children’s toys. The bookstore is operated by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, one of the oldest Chapters of the AIA.

  • All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors

    1934 by J. Otto Schweizer

    All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors

    Finely detailed sculptures of African American military men cluster about an allegorical figure representing Justice, who holds symbols of Honor and Reward. Above, American eagles surround a torch of life. First placed in West Fairmount Park, this work was moved to a prominent position on the Parkway in 1994.

  • American Helicopter Museum

    The history of rotorcraft flight from the ground up

    Child playing at the Helicopter Museum.

    The 20,000-square-foot hangar full of 70 years’ worth of vintage helicopters is a rotorwing historian’s dream; here, vintage and modern aircraft demonstrate the copter’s roles in war and rescue missions, agriculture and police surveillance. You’ll see the only V-22 tilt-rotor Osprey in the world that’s on public display, and have the chance to climb into some of the helicopters to fiddle with the dials, switches and pedals.

  • American Philosophical Society Museum

    Views of science and humanistic thought at Ben Franklin’s intellectual club

    American Philosophical Society Museum

    Snuggled behind the east wing of Independence Hall is Philosophical Hall, a brick building erected in the late 1780s that was our nation’s first museum, national library and academy of science. Inside, changing exhibitions highlight the intersections of science, history and art. Jefferson’s handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Lewis and Clark journals are among the important documents, scientific specimens, patent models, portraits, maps, rare books and manuscripts that comprise this remarkable collection.

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