Join us at the museum as we think through big ideas to save the planet! On Presidents’ Day Weekend, February 19-21, the Museum will be open Saturday through Monday, with special innovation-related programming throughout the weekend.
Saturday, February 19
Featured Activity: Innovators’ Alley
How can we help make the world a better place? Learn more about the plants and animals that share our environment with us in Innovators’ Alley, featuring activities from some friends of the Museum.
Independence Seaport Museum: Healthy waterways are important to our community! Meet some of the teen River Ambassadors from Independence Seaport Museum and learn about what they’re doing to help keep our waterways clean.
Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education: Explore the different animals who share this environment with us! Look at animal skulls, fur, and more to better understand our local furry friends. How are they the same as you? How are they different? Find out with our friends from Schuylkill Environmental Center.
Museum Innovators: The members of our Exhibits team are always thinking about what’s next! Learn about some of their own inventions, including ideas linked to the Museum Garden and Market.
Postcard Station: Protecting the planet will take all of us! Send a postcard to your city council representative and ask them to help protect the planet and pass laws to keep the environment safe! Nobody can save earth alone, but if we all work together, we can make a difference.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Center Core, Lower Level
February 20 & 21
Featured Activity:
Cardboard City
Come build part of our cardboard city! Add to our recycled landscape and try out your structural engineering skills.
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Center Core, Lower Level
Additional Museum Programming, Feb. 19-21
Creative Arts Studio
1-1:30 p.m., 2-2:30 p.m., 3-3:30 p.m.
What does the perfectly awesome, totally wild, incredibly fun playground look like to you? Could this playground be enjoyed by you and ALL of your friends? Come join us in the Creative Art Studio and explore universal design as you construct a 3-dimensional model of a playground using innovation and recycled materials.
Albert M. Greenfield Makerspace Studio
Workshops 1:30-2 p.m., 2:30-3 p.m., and 3:30-4 p.m.
How can we use our maker skills to help our environment and the other animals living in it? Come build a home for solitary bees who live in Philadelphia, and help save the bees!
Storytime
11-11:15 a.m. and 2-2:15 p.m.
Michael Recycle: Come read about a boy doing his best to keep our environment clean!
Tot Spot
10:30-11 a.m. and 2:30-3 p.m.
Come explore our weather-themed sensory bottles!
Strolling Science Lab
12:30-1 p.m.
Temperature Mapping Activity: How do different building materials hold on to heat differently? How do man made materials trap heat differently than parks and gardens?
Interested in exploring more STEM activities? Check out our At-Home STEM Activities Guide.
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