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!
Welcoming in the Christmas season by celebrating the way Charles Dickens did, with good fellowship, music, and punch!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore up close the exquisite writing of three Americans who were each witness to the Civil War from distinctly different vantage points.
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!
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.
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.
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.