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PHILADELPHIE, 25 janvier 2023 – In 2023, there’s an exciting slate of openings and special exhibitions offering both big fun and food for thought.
This year, Philly’s new offerings are as broad, inclusive and eclectic as the city itself, from the female, BIPOC recasting of the musical 1776 to the Museum of the American Revolution’s re-examination of the nation’s founding through the story of a prominent Black family in its Black Founders exposition.
Looking for fun for all ages? Visit the blockbuster Disney100 : L'exposition at The Franklin Institute, with its vast collection of rarely seen treasures from the vault. Later in the year, return for the opening of the new, permanent SPACE exhibit. Meanwhile, Sesame Place debuts a water attraction, Splashy Shores, and FDR Park opens its new welcome center and nature-inspired playground.
There are new amusements on deck, too, including conveyor-belt sushi at Kura, boozy, high-tech minigolf at the Puttshack and the opening of Otherworld Philly, a 55-room experiential art exhibit of light and sound.
Intriguing art shows, tempting new restaurants and food halls, brewery openings, theater and hotel premieres, and even dog-friendly venues offer even more reasons and ways to spend time in Philadelphia this year.
Read on for new things to do in the Philadelphia region in 2023:
THEATER AND LIVE PERFORMANCES:
Now Open | Red Rum Theater, 601 Walnut Street
Whodunnit fans have a new favorite spot in Philly with the opening of the city’s first theater dedicated to the murder mystery genre. Without A Clue Productions has found a permanent home — after touring its shows nationally for 20 years — at the interactive, cabaret-style Red Rum Theater, where guests join the search for clues, interact with players and get their mug shots taken. The first show: A Golden Girls Mystery, runs through April 29, 2023.
1776 au théâtre Forrest
February 14-26, 2023 | Forrest Theatre, 1114 Walnut Street
This popular Tony Award-winning musical about the American Revolution got a Broadway reboot last summer, replacing the white male Founding Fathers with women of color and a racially and ethnically diverse ensemble, adding new resonance to the play’s ideas and anthems. It’s only fitting that the Broadway show’s 16-city national tour starts in Philly. Bonus: Enter our Week-end de plaisir à l'occasion de la Saint-Valentin avec le jeu-concours Philly through February 6, 2023 for a chance to win $1,034 in prizes, including two tickets to the show.
EXHIBITS:
Andrew Wyeth: Home Places au Brandywine Museum of Art
February 4 – July 13, 2023 | Brandywine Museum of Art, 1 Hoffmans Mill Road, Chadds Ford
The realist painter Andrew Wyeth is considered an American master, and his story and work are intimately intertwined with his Brandywine Valley home and community. In cette exposition, visitors explore nearly 50 paintings and drawings of the local buildings and vistas that inspired Wyeth over his 70-year career. Enjoy a glimpse of his inspiration and a time capsule of the region over the course of his artistic life.
Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia au Museum of the American Revolution
February 11 – November 26, 2023 | Museum of the American Revolution, 101 S. Third Street
James Forten, né homme libre d'origine africaine, a participé à la guerre d'indépendance américaine en 1781, puis est retourné à Philadelphie où il est devenu un homme d'affaires prospère, un philanthrope et un abolitionniste convaincu. Cette nouvelle exposition retrace l'histoire de Forten et de ses descendants depuis la révolution américaine jusqu'à la guerre civile et au mouvement pour le droit de vote des femmes (1776 à 1876).
Nothing Change, Nothing Strange au Fabric Workshop and Museum
February 17 – July 23, 2023 | Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street
Meet notable Black artist Henry Taylor, whose work has been shown at the Whitney, the Venice Biennale and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. During his residency at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Henry Taylor has turned found objects into assemblages, tapestries and textiles. His show takes over the second floor, where Taylor merges his favored medium of painting with sculpture to disassemble and recreate forms and art itself.
Disney100 : L'exposition à The Franklin Institute
February 18 – August 27, 2023 | The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th Street
The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, and the whole world will celebrate a legacy of stories, characters and imagination — but only Philly’s Institut Franklin will house the official Disney100 : L'exposition. Making its world premiere right here in Philadelphia, the exhibition offers 10 galleries that
cover the history of Disney from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs à Strange World, highlighting rarely seen original artworks, costumes, props and behind-the-scenes memorabilia from Disney and its companies, including Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel and National Geographic.
The Year of Biodiversity à The Academy of Natural Sciences de l'université Drexel
Dates vary by event | The Academy of Natural Sciences de l'université Drexel, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Le plus ancien musée d'histoire naturelle d'Amérique turns its focus to the importance of biodiversity this year with two big-name exhibitions. Conversations With Birds (February 18 – May 21, 2023) explores the complex world of our feathered friends, including their important role in ecosystems and their epic migration journeys. Summer brings the opening of Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity (June 24, 2023 – January 21, 2024), which invites visitors to reconsider the shape-shifting, color-changing and ever-evolving nature of this complex organ.
Du milieu du siècle au manga : l'estampe japonaise moderne en Amérique au Musée d'art James A. Michener
March 4 – July 30, 2023 | Musée d'art Michener, 138 S. Pine Street, Doylestown
Bucks County author James Michener took an active interest in Japanese art and printmaking, as his collection reflects. This special exhibit in his intimate Bucks County art museum spotlights Japanese printmaking in the post-war period and celebrates contemporary Japanese and Japanese-American illustration and print-making.
Sue Williamson et Lebohang Kganye : Dis-moi ce dont tu te souviens au Barnes Foundation
March 5 – May 21, 2023 | Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Les Barnes Foundation hôtes this groundbreaking, cross-generational exhibition examining the legacy and memory of apartheid in South Africa from the perspective of two of the nation’s most notable contemporary artists. Spinning personal and oral histories into photography, film, textiles and installations, the artists reflect on history and the role of the narrator in shaping common memory and telling the story of the past.
Rising Sun : Les artistes dans une Amérique incertaine
March 23 – October 8, 2023 | Le African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch Street & Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 118-128 N Broad Street
“Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?” Nearly two dozen artists interpret that question in new artworks that appear in this exposition collective at both the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The African American Museum in Philadelphia. This landmark exhibit invites visitors to consider complex issues from multiple viewpoints.
SPACE à The Franklin Institute
Fall 2023 | The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th Street
The sky is not the limit at The Franklin Institute’s SPACE exposition. The massive expansion project triples the size of the museum’s permanent space exhibit, with two floors of displays built to stimulate excitement for space travel and share new tech advances. An interactive component allows guests to experience space
phenomena and explore what it takes to live and play in outer space. The project is due for completion ahead of the museum’s 100-year anniversary in 2024.
NEW OPENINGS:
Bark Social et Le chien alcoolique
February and late 2023 | The Boozy Mutt, 2639 Poplar Street, Philadelphia & Bark Social, 3720 Main Street Suite E
Drink with your dog! Really? Really. The social zeitgeist has moved to embrace canine companions in restaurants and bars, and Philly welcomes two new spots for creatures on both two and four legs this year. Bark Social, opening in Manayunk in February, is a dog-friendly sports bar and cafe, complete with craft beer (for humans) and self-serve baths (for dogs). Later in the year, Le chien alcoolique sets up in Fairmount, featuring a restaurant and bar, as well as a dog park and pet boutique.
REOPENING:
Salle des charpentiers et Second National Bank of the United States
Reopens Spring 2023 | Salle des charpentiers, 320 rue Chestnut & Deuxième Banque des États-Unis, 420 Chestnut Street
History buffs, take note: Two of the city’s (many) important historic landmarks reopen this spring. Explore the building where the First Continental Congress met in 1774 when Salle des charpentiers opens after a yearlong restoration. Also reopening: the historic Deuxième banque des États-Unis, home to the Le peuple de l'indépendance exhibit that’s a veritable who’s who of history, featuring 18th- and 19th-century portraits, with over 100 paintings by Charles Willson Peale.
Puttshack at the Shops at Liberty Place
Opens Summer 2023 | 1625 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
A Philadelphia outpost of this popular adult mini-golfing amusement chain comes to the Shops at Liberty Place this summer. Billed as “the only upscale tech-infused mini-golf experience with global food and drink” — plus all the lights and music of a nightclub — this is clearly not your mother’s putt-putt. The coolest part: There’s no need to keep score, as a patented system codes each ball to its player and logs points as you play, so you can focus on drinking and throwing shade.
Bert & Ernie’s Splashy Shores at Sesame Place
Opens Summer 2023 | Sesame Place, 100 Sesame Road, Langhorne
La première Rue Sésame theme park adds yet another reason to bring the family this summer with the opening of an all-new water attraction, Bert & Ernie’s Splashy Shores. This water adventure area on Sesame Island invites visitors to splash, spray and play in water umbrellas, spraying jets, tipping buckets and a water tower. There’s no better way to beat the heat on “sunny days.”
Fall 2023 | 1500 Pattison Avenue & South Broad Street
This fall, South Philly’s beloved FDR Park opens a new Welcome Center at Broad and Pattison, as well as an adjacent playground. The renovated 5,500-square-foot guardhouse includes a staffed information center, restrooms, food vendors, equipment rentals and an open-air community courtyard gathering space. The Pattison Playground offers nature-based play equipment like spinners, landscape slides and treehouses. And the new picnic area pavilions offer the perfect spot for a family lunch.
Opening in late 2023 | 2500 Grant Avenue, Northeast Philadelphia
This next entry into the region’s pantheon of interactive, immersive, Instagram-ready art spaces opens in the Northeast later this year. Otherworld Philly will be immense (40,000 square feet), encouraging guests to roam through a cinematic experience that is equal parts art installation and escape room. Experience dramatic sound and expansive lighting effects and look for iridescent creatures, crawl tubes and other surprises in room after colorful room.
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