Halloween Party at the Rosenbach featuring Charming Disaster

Date / Time

  • October 27, 2018
    6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Rosenbach is home to Bram Stoker’s notes for Dracula, as well as a first editions of Polidori’s The Vampyre and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. So, join us in your costumed finest to celebrate Halloween as we welcome musical duo Charming Disaster and their eclectic repertoire of song. Charming Disaster will play short sets throughout the evening, as we also engage in some gothic fun.

Hands-On Tour: Dracula

Date / Time

  • March 9, 2018
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Get up close and personal with Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes (character and chapter outlines, chronologies, and more!) for Dracula as Rosenbach staff explore what it takes to create an enduring monster.

Frankenstein200 at the Rosenbach

On January 1, 1818, the London publishing house Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones published a book titled Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The publication did not name its author, but the book had an preface written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and a dedication to writer and philosopher William Godwin, so some readers assumed that the …

Hands-On Tour: Dracula

Date / Time

  • January 19, 2018
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Get up close and personal with Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes (character and chapter outlines, chronologies, and more!) for Dracula as Rosenbach staff explore what it takes to create an enduring monster.

In Conversation with the Rosenbach: It’s Alive! Frankenstein in the Modern World

Date / Time

  • February 1, 2018
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

In honor of the bicentennial of Frankenstein’s publication, we invited a historian of science, a literature scholar, and a biologist to a discussion moderated by a bioethicist. Their panel will explore the reasons that Mary Shelley’s vision has had such a profound effect on our imagination and on the way we structure our understanding of the ethical and social implications of biotechnology.