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.

April 15th

Victorian Easter Egg Roll

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.

May 25th

memorial day celebration

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.

June 20th

Wawa Welcome America Free Museum Day

June 20th

Wawa Welcome America Free Museum Day

June 23rd

Wawa Welcome America Free Museum Day

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.

July 2nd

Wawa Welcome America Free Museum Day

July 4th

Wawa Welcome America Free Museum Day

July 4th

Bell Ringing Ceremony & performance

July 22nd

Charles and Molly Logan and the Case of Pleasants v. Pleasants”

Join us at Stenton Museum or on Zoom for a “Wrestling with Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery” lecture.
Presented by William Fernandez Hardin.

July 31st

“Honoring Labor and Foodways: Discovering Places Within and Places Underground”

Art & Archaeology Lectures & Tour

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 17^th century to today.

Date TBD

Spirits of Independence

Scholar David Hancock talks about the colonial wine trade. Includes tasting of related wines.

Date TBD

“The ‘Endings’ of Chattel Slavery in the United States”

ZOOM Program with Sarah Gronningsater.

DATE TBD

“Crafting China in Miniature”

Learn about Quaker Collectors and Chinese Export in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia.