Date / Time
- December 12, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Welcoming in the Christmas season by celebrating the way Charles Dickens did, with good fellowship, music, and punch!
Upcoming Events
[In Progress] Whose America? with Kermit Roosevelt | Virtual Course
Date / Time
- December 12, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - January 9, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Kermit Roosevelt explores the America the Founders designed, and the America that came to be, through documents and books in the Rosenbach’s American history collection.
Biblioventures: Sherlock Monthly | Virtual Program
Date / Time
- December 14, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - January 11, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - February 15, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - March 15, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - April 19, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - May 17, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - June 21, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
We’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.
Biblioventures: Monsters and Ghosts, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A Christmas Carol
Date / Time
- December 16, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us on a new Biblioventure with two six-part series of haunted works of the nineteenth century: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Museum Adventures Preschool Program
Date / Time
- December 18, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am - January 15, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am - February 19, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am - March 19, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am - April 16, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am - May 21, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am - June 18, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Calling all preschoolers! Come play with us on the third Wednesday morning of every month. We’ll read a story together and then embark on a treasure hunt through the Rosenbach brothers’ glitzy Rittenhouse Square home to discover things that relate to the story. Afterward, families are welcome to join us in our activity room for hands-on art making activities, creative play, music and snacks.
The Politics and Poetics of the Civil War: Lincoln, Whitman, and Douglass Revisited | Behind the Bookcase
Date / Time
- January 5, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Explore up close the exquisite writing of three Americans who were each witness to the Civil War from distinctly different vantage points.
The Republic of Letters: The Rosenbach’s American History Book Club, in Partnership with Carpenters’ Hall
Date / Time
- January 7, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - February 4, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - March 4, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - May 6, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - June 10, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
If you love reading about American history, discussing it with fellow enthusiasts, and visiting iconic sites of our nation’s past right here in Philadelphia, then this new book club is for you!
[SOLD OUT] Reading Moby-Dick with Hester Blum | Virtual Course
Date / Time
- January 8, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - February 12, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - March 19, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - April 9, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
In this course, which welcomes first-time Melville readers and Moby-Dick obsessives alike, our discussions will range from the novel’s most thunderous, epic heights to its quirkiest, crudest jokes.
[SOLD OUT] Reading Ulysses with Michael Barsanti
Date / Time
- January 12, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - February 9, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - March 9, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - April 13, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - May 11, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - June 8, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
To read James Joyce’s masterpiece together and have fun doing it, with freewheeling discussion, amusing and brief digressions, penetrating insights, mind-opening questions, and occasional singing.
The Body in the Library Book Club: Harlem Renaissance Mysteries | In-Person Book Club
Date / Time
- January 14, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - February 11, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - March 11, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Celebrate the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance by rediscovering a talented mystery writer from the era, and then engage with recent mystery novels set in early 20th-century Harlem.