Museums
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Magic in the Ancient World at the Penn Museum
Do you believe in magic?
Penn Museum's Magic in the Ancient World brings together amulets, coins, bowls and other objects from its collection. Each item has a purpose, even if its only function is to make the wearer feel a little more secure.
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The Golden Age of King Midas at Penn Museum
Archaeology fit for a king
King Midas was a real Phrygian ruler, and Penn archaeologists have been excavating his home, Gordion, since 1950. Some of the treasures unearthed are on display in a dazzling show at the Penn Museum.
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Tarantulas: Alive and Up Close at the Academy of Natural Sciences
Tarantulas on their own terms (or not)
A new exhibit on the spiders of our nightmares avoids some of the hairiest questions of nature and human beings. Is there a reason to value these beasts for their own sake?
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Fairmount Park's historic mansions celebrate the season
Fairmount Park's mansions are a treasure trove of colonial architecture. Bedecked for the Christmas season, they are shown off to their best advantage.
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Down the Rabbit Hole at the Rosenbach
Alice at 150: From spur-of-the-moment story to literary institution
Down the Rabbit Hole at the Rosenbach is the centerpiece exhibit of a Free Library-wide menu of talks, screenings, and tea parties that continues into next spring to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Alice in Wonderland.
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The Flight 93 National Memorial
Reclaiming the site of a tragedy
The recently opened memorial to United Flight 93 is a glorious work of art that blends architectural structures and crafted landscape to create a contemplative place for visitors and a resting place for those who died.
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Richard Tuttle Retrospective at the Fabric Workshop and Museum
An enigma wrapped in a mystery
Visitors to the Fabric Workshop and Museum are always accompanied by a docent, which quickly makes sense, given the hopscotch layout and inscrutable installation. It helps to have a guide when you think you’re entering a nice little fabric museum and find yourself on the cutting edge of. . .something entirely different.
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Speaking Out for Equality at the National Constitution Center
The quiet beginning of the gay rights movement
While the exhibit, covering a half century of gay rights progress, is impressive in its breadth, it’s lacking in depth, as if the archivists geared things primarily for an audience suffering from attention deficit disorder.
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FDR Presidential Library and Museum
At home with FDR
The qualities that FDR cultivated — fortitude, equanimity, compassion, and transcendence — to live a prodigiously fruitful life in spite of extreme debilitation were the qualities that enabled him to lead the nation out of the morass of the Great Depression and through the horrors of World War II.
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Frederic Church's Olana
The art of landscape
I visited Olana on the first day of spring with chilly air, bare trees, snow on the ground, and ice in the Hudson. The house or villa or monument is a marvel, a fantasy, an unlikely but pleasing blend of styles — Persian, Moorish, Italian, and then some.
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