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Independence Living History Center

Piecing together the stories of the past with the tools of the future

Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun

The Penn Museum hosts more than 100 artifacts from ancient Egypt

Arch Street Friends Meeting House

1804 Quaker meeting house is the largest of its kind in the world

The Atwater Kent Museum

Philadelphia’s history museum, and Norman Rockwell, too

Awbury Arboretum

A wee bit of England transplanted to Germantown

Barns-Brinton House (Historic Houses of Chadds Ford)

Pre-Revolutionary War homes on the National Register of Historic Places

Bartram's Garden

America’s oldest living botanic garden, a 45-acre oasis of quiet fields and modest 18th-century farm buildings

Battleship New Jersey

Admiral “Bull” Halsey’s flagship and the nation’s most decorated battleship

The Betsy Ross House

Home and burial place of Betsy Ross

The Bishop White House

Mansion of the Bishop who founded the American Episcopalian Church

Brandywine Battlefield Park

The peacefully preserved remains of one of Washington’s few defeats

Carpenters' Hall

Meeting Place of the First Continental Congress

Where Colonial America made its break with the Church of England

Christ Church Burial Ground

Visit the graves of Benjamin Franklin and other early American leaders

The largest municipal building in the country and the finest example of the Second Empire style

Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia

Interpreting the struggle for freedom, equality and national unity in 19th century America

The suburban scene of a bloody revolutionary battle

Home of the U.S. Congress from 1790-1800

The David Library of the American Revolution

Revolutionary War documentation on sacred historical ground

Declaration (Graff) House

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence here

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