Museums/Exhibits

Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock.

Charts the role of art in the lives of Philadelphians during the American Revolution.

Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall and look like giant huts, last for two years before they begin to dissolve.

Features a first-hand experience of what it was like for immigrants who traveled to Washington Avenue. View photos, listen to oral histories of immigrants and climb into a ship's steerage compartment where many immigrants stayed during the journey.

Features the only permanent display of dinosaurs in the state. The gallery's Science in Action Lab allows visitors to watch volunteers prepare real paleontology specimens.

The pomegranate has long been a symbol of health, fertility and resurrection. See how it has been depicted in centuries of art from a variety of cultures.

Features photographs of filling stations from the '20s to the '60s to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American oil industry.

Features model and life-sized airplanes, a flight simulator and sound effects that are designed to make you feel as if you're in the middle of a live air show.

Features a variety of Benjamin Franklin's belongings and inventions, including a lens, lightning rod and bifocals.

Features a massive model of a human heart that you can walk through, and which has interactive stations that pertain to blood, health, anatomy and heart ailments.

Features bird specimens and nests on display. Highlights include an extinct passenger pigeon and 3-D dioramas of the birds in their habitats.

The highlight of this exhibition is a complete horse and man armor from the early 16th century.

Features examples of contemporary evening wear designs that were given as gifts to Tom Marotta, the vice president of couture for Saks Fifth Avenue.

Features a selection of sculptures from the titular Japanese-American artist. Many of Noguchi's sculptures have untouched surfaces of stone, as he believed that sculpting should maintain the original form of its materials.

Features refractor and reflector telescopes that provide an up-close look at planets, stars and other galaxies.

Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner discusses Kalman's exhibition, including the work involved and the organization needed to create it.

Features an assortment of objects used to consume alcoholic beverages from 17th- and 18th-century Europe.

Features interactive displays that describe the country's financial history. Visitors can view a rare $100,000 bill, test their skills at detecting counterfeit cash, and learn about what the government uses to predict our economic future.

Hiram and Elizabeth Brown Montier are here immortalized as the subjects of the earliest surviving portraits of an African-American couple.

Features a wall-sized portrait of every U.S. president, including the newly elected Barack Obama.

See twelve copperplate etchings by Swedish artist Anders Zorn, most of which have not been on view since 1992.

Features documents and artifacts exploring the U.S. Navy at the time of the Spanish-American War, as well as the role of the USS Olympia ship.

Features paintings and photography that depict the story of ordinary heroes: the woman who jumped onto train tracks to save a stranger, the professor who sacrificed his life to save his students during the Virginia Tech massacre, and many others.

Features the stories of 20 individuals and organizations that are trying to bring about international peace, including celebrities like Elie Wiesel and Bono, religious figures like Pope John Paul II, and organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the Bill Gates Foundation.

Features Buddhist masterpieces from the Himalayan region of Asia. Works range from bronze sculptures to paintings rich in cultural and spiritual meaning.

Features an installation by minimalist painter Robert Ryman. Ryman's work consists of 10 vinyl sheets attached to the wall by acrylic paint, displaying the artist's interest in painting directly onto the wall.

Masks, costumes, libretti, instruments—all can be found in this exhibition of Japanese art.

Features sketches, computer-generated images and videos that give viewers an inside perspective on the process of curating a museum exhibition.

Features paintings by imaginary artists, grouped in a faux art gallery in order to demonstrate scientific concepts. Also, a movie screen simulates different principles of physics, from the mechanics of levers to the composition of atoms.

Features 30 interactive stations about space exploration, which allow visitors to play with telescopes, learn about the history of space exploration and try on astronaut suits.

Features a 5,500-square-foot stadium with Astro Turf and a Jumbo Tron screen, full of virtual reality games that allow visitors to embrace their inner athletes. The exhibit focuses on how science plays an important role in sports. Now that's something a Wii can't teach.

Features a cross-cultural collection of Korean screen paintings and Chinese ceramics, the latter of which feature narrative designs from novels and legends.

Features interactive stations about how trains work, including one that allows visitors to keep the Baldwin 60000 train running by adding coal and tinkering with the controls.

Features several installations and stations where visitors can learn about trees and their relationship to people. The main attraction, "Out on a Limb," takes visitors 50 feet up in the air for a bird's-eye view of Morris' gardens.

Features a reconstruction of Wharton Esherick's three-sided outhouse, which was inspired by the 1919 film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary."

Features interactive stations exploring the science, history and artistic skill behind boat construction.