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Our specialized, in-depth tours are great for adventurous tourist and inquisitive local alike. Our experienced volunteer guides offer tours every weekend from May–November with each tour focusing on a different part of Greater Philadelphia. Various dates and times. $10-18

Hosted by Fairmount Park Conservancy, this year’s scavenger hunt celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Centennial Exposition. Self-guided, using the GooseChase App anytime between May 1-Aug 31, dawn-dusk. Prizes for finishing missions.

In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026, the Community Arts Center is hosting this group exhibition. There are 25 exhibiting artists who each is assigned a 10 year period in time between 1776 to 2026.

Come out this summer for 9 weeks of concerts free at the amphitheater created for the Bicentennial! Shows 5 days a week!

This small-group walking tour will visit eight locations around downtown West Chester that served as a backdrop for the people involved in this clandestine operation. The tour covers approximately 1.25 miles, lasts 90 minutes. $17.25. Various dates/times. Check website.

In 1876, Philadelphia made history, hosting the first World’s Fair in North America, attracting millions of visitors from across the country and around the world, In 2026 we’ve recreated that experience at 8th and Market in the historic LITS building, just two blocks west of Independence Mall.

Residents and visitors are invited to join festivities ranging from fireworks, parades and commemorations at these Independence Day festivities around Delaware County. Multiple dates, times, locations.

Every year Shofuso celebrates Tanabata with decorations and bamboo trees full of wishes written by our visitors. On Saturday, July 11th there will be Tanabata Papercrafts and Kamishibai Storytelling. Included with Shofuso admission $10-15

Learn about the breadth of the American Revolution and individual biographies with this family-friendly traveling exhibit hosted by Haverford Twp Free Library in partnership with the Daughters of the American Revolution and The Battlefield Trust. Regular library hours.

See and touch artifacts, tools, & toys used by the Lenape. Listen to a discussion about the people who used and produced them. This event is for All Ages!

How did the armies fight in the American Revolution? What kinds of weapons did they use? Was the militia effective? Andrew Miller will take a firsthand look at a musket, bayonet, tomahawk, and other weapons.

Clarissa Dillon is one of the foremost authorities of 18th century American Colonial cooking, farming, and gardening. For over two decades, Clarissa has used the historic and beautifully-restored Thomas Massey House in Broomall as a base for her many activities and still tends the kitchen garden.

Hear the reading of the Declaration of Independence on the anniversary of its reading in 1776. Courthouses around the commonwealth were told to ring their bells and read out the Declaration to the public. Followed by DAR wreath-laying at John Morton's grave at St. Paul's/ Old Swede's Burial Ground.

DCBA and America250PADelco will join with communities across America in a simultaneous reading of this famous document. Enjoy the 'Forging Freedom' banner installation, sign their own copy of the Declaration, and join in the Pledge of Allegiance. Event is outside.

The Declaration of Independence revealed both the American revolutionaries’ aspirational new ideals and their often-conflicting established values and interests. As a result, the Declaration has both inspired reform causes and justified restraints on radical changes throughout American history.

Drawing on new research, historical photographs, and newspaper accounts, author Amanda Owen features profiles of 25 women who served as speakers on the Justice Bell tour, and traces the Bell’s story from its origin as a grassroots campaign tool, through the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

Emily Sneff published her book, “When the Declaration of Independence was News,” for the 250th Anniversary of the United States. This talk, like her book, focuses on the nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776.

Celebrate America250 at the library! Join us for a screening of 1776, the musical celebration of the founding of the United States based on the 1972 Broadway production. Set in Phila. in the summer of 1776, it is a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration.