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From May 3 – July 26 stop by the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center’s gallery to enjoy a fine art exhibition centered on the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, and the junction where they meet, known as a confluence. Eleven artists...
Nature has some really cool solutions to everyday challenges and many challenges are similar to ones humans face. Biomimicry is the practice of learning from nature and using similar strategies to solve issues. For example, a Swiss engineer invented the Velcro...
Celebrate International Day of Monuments and Sites and learn why the Fairmount Water Works, a prototype for water supply systems around the world, was one of the most visited sites in the United States in the nineteenth century (second only...
Join us for a loosely guided meet up of the Philly Nature Journaling Club. For April, 2025, we are meeting Fairmount Water Works on Saturday April 19th from 10am to 12pm. We ask that you fill out the form so...
Award-winning art exhibition at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center in Philadelphia. Now through September. Powerful interactive installations build on one another to illuminate a history of segregated swimming in America, and its connection to present-day drowning issues affecting Black...
September 21st at the Fairmount Water Works!
A special art exhibition directed by Karen Young for the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center and curated by Thom Duffy. The exhibition’s purpose is to bring focus to historic and current extreme weather events impacting our region and the planet’s...
Sure, people have loved drinking beer in the park for years, but did you know that beer was also made on these lands? Before the city created the park, the banks of the Schuylkill River were valuable to emerging breweries...
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