Winter
January through March
Jan 1st
Exhibit: Actively American
The gallery explores artworks from the museum’s permanent collection focusing on American artists over the past 250 years.
Feb 7th
Our History Poetry Night
Listen to poetry and bring your own writing, all responding to the prompt, “What does Our History mean to you?” In partnership with The Colored Girls Museum.
Feb 28th
52 Weeks of Firsts: First public Protest Against Slavery
Commemorate the bold 1688 petition by German Quakers, the first recorded public protest against slavery in America.
Feb TBD
“Black Resistance to Quaker enslavement”
Jim Fussell will discuss enslavement and discrimination in Quaker history and explore the many ways that Black individuals asserted their agency and fought against their enslavers.
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Feb TBD
Exhibit: One museum Nine rooms
A girl tells her story through connecting with each room in the house.
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FEB TBD
Tavern Night
An evening of storytelling and merriment, complete with 18th-century beer, cocktails and hearth-cooked food.
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Mar 15 – Apr 19
Making paper for the Declaration
See the work of Common Press’ residency at the papermill at Historic Rittenhouse Town where they will be turning the cloth collected during their community rag collection into large sheets of handmade paper.
Mar 18th
“Single Womanhood in Early America”
Annual Women’s History Lecture with Julia Bouwkamp, University of Pennsylvania.
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Spring
April through June
Apr 9th –
Jul 5th
Radical Americana
A series of exhibitions organized by a consortium of Philadelphia’s arts and cultural institutions, including Stenton, Cliveden and The Colored Girls Museum. The series celebrates how today’s artists continue the city’s legacy as a center for creativity and civic engagement.
May 1st
2026 Tour Season opens at Cliveden
A new installation will focus on the site’s first period of occupation by the Chew family, people enslaved by the Chews and their laborers, and engage with themes of identity, consumerism, material culture, service and revolution.
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May 16th
Legacies of Civic Engagement
A powerful panel of legendary leaders and scholars will share with community the histories of significant civic engagement movements.
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June 6th
Dinner with Dinah
Created and led by poets Trapeta B. Mayson and Yolanda Wisher, this project inspired by the life of Dinah, an African American woman who was enslaved and later freed at Stenton, is a poetic, immersive work reimaging Dinah’s life through performance, shared meals, community engagement, and historical reflection.
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June 27th
52 Weeks of Firsts: First Papermill
Long before Wi-Fi and word processors, there was paper and it all started at RittenhouseTown. Discover the handmade beginnings of America’s paper trail and the mill that made it happen.
Summer
July through September
July TBD
“An Un-Pleasant Affair”
The Pleasants Family, Charles Logan’s In-laws, and Quaker Slaveholding in Henrico County, Virginia.
Presented by Bill Hardin.
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July TBD
Visitors Center Grand Opening
Featuring a new exhibit: Germantown Revolutions, which explores the presence of the ideals of the American revolution in Germantown from the 17th century to today.
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Aug TBD
“Architectures of Slavery Across the Atlantic Basin”
Presented by Louis Nelson.
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SEPT TBD
“Christianity and Slavery”
1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery. Presented by Katharine Gerbner.
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October through December
Dec tbd
1876 Centennial Christmas celebration
Highlighting innovations of the centennial and the creation of Wannamaker’s department store.
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October through December
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Spirits of Independence
Scholar David Hancock talks about the colonial wine trade. Includes tasting of related wines.
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“The ‘Endings’ of Chattel Slavery in the United States”
ZOOM Program with Sarah Gronningsater.
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“Crafting China in Miniature”
Learn about Quaker Collectors and Chinese Export in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia.
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