Members Only | American Prometheus: Benjamin Franklin and the Philadelphia Enlightenment

Date / Time

  • November 3, 2023
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, United States

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Description

Members are invited to be the first to experience the tour American Prometheus: Benjamin Franklin and the Philadelphia Enlightenment before it is available to the general public. This tour will give members a chance to view some of our remarkable artifacts, hear readings from Franklin’s autobiography, and discuss how Franklin fits into the enlightenment in Philadelphia in the 1700 and early 1800s.  

 

Image: Mason Chamberlin, artist, and E. Fisher, engraver, B. Franklin of Philadelphia L.L.D. 1763. Sold by M. Chamberlin in Stewart Street, Old Artillery Ground, Spittalfields [sic; London]. Mezzotint on wove paper, 15 ¾” H x 12 ½” W. 1954.0829.