Ben Franklin Museum

Museum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

What to expect

The Benjamin Franklin Museum is a place where visitors can explore the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin. The museum features interactive exhibitions, personal artifacts, computer animations, and hands-on displays that examine Franklin's life as a private citizen and a statesman. The museum is divided into rooms that reflect different aspects of Franklin's personality and character traits, such as ardent and dutiful, ambitious and rebellious, motivated to improve, curious and full of wonder, and strategic and persuasive. The museum is fully accessible for visitors with mobility impairments and offers audio described tours and tactile objects throughout the exhibit area. It's a great place for families to visit and learn about Benjamin Franklin's life and contributions to society

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the Ben Franklin Museum to learn about his life and achievements

Highlights: The kids enjoyed learning about Ben Franklin's many accomplishments ✨

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the Ben Franklin Museum, which is tucked away in a courtyard off of Market Street where his house once stood. The museum focuses on Franklin the man with Colonial history in the background as context for his life

Highlights: The museum is well-done and interactive. There are interactive screens and videos, some of them quite amusing. We could play a few tunes on a mock glass harmonica. Kids can hunt for a well-dressed squirrel named Skuggs throughout the museum ✨