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Dialogues with Darwin: An Exhibition of Historical Documents and Contemporary Art

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June 08, 2009

Science on Tap: The Unknown Skeleton – Forensic Anthropology and the Unsolvable Case

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics

June 15, 2009

Dialogues with Darwin Poetry Project

July 13, 2009

Science on Tap: Cold Hard Science: Fossil Discoveries in the Canadian Arctic and the Origin of Limbed Animals

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics.

July 30, 2009

Secret Cinema:  Island of Lost Souls (1933)

The Secret Cinema presents a film screening of Island of Lost Souls at the APS Museum.

September 13, 2009

Second Sundays: Beetle-mania!

Explore the world of beetles with your whole family.

September 14, 2009

Science on Tap: Bringing Physics to Physicians

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics.

October 11, 2009

Second Sundays: Fun with Book Arts

Make a “deep time day planner”

October 12, 2009

The Voyage of the Beetle

The Voyage of the Beetle is one man’s inspired tribute to Charles Darwin and the wonders of our natural world.

October 24, 2009

Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man

Playwright Glen Berger and performance artist Brett Keyser take on the founder of modern biology. Part of the Philly Fringe Festival.

October 25, 2009

Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man

Playwright Glen Berger and performance artist Brett Keyser take on the founder of modern biology. Part of the Philly Fringe Festival.

November 08, 2009

Second Sundays: Fossil Fever

See real fossils!  Make a fossil cast! Draw a dinosaur skull!

November 18, 2009

Lecture: Jim Endersby, “Darwin, Hooker, and Empire”

Jim Endersby (Senior Lecturer, History, University of Sussex) presents “Darwin, Hooker, and Empire” as part of the Penn Humanities Forum.

November 23, 2009

Trollope, Eliot…Darwin? Charles Darwin as a Victorian Writer

The New Yorker magazine essayist Adam Gopnik in dialogue with Rutgers University Professor of English George Levine.

November 24, 2009

Adam Gopnik at the Free Library

Adam Gopnik discusses Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life

Birthday of the Book: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

Join the APS Museum as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s masterpiece On the Origin of Species.

December 03, 2009

The Secret Cinema: One Million B.C.

The Secret Cinema will screen One Million B.C. (1940) at the APS in part 2 of the Darwin-inspired film series.

December 13, 2009

Second Sundays: Now you see it, now you don’t!

Create camouflage origami animals with Philadelphia artist Martin Campos.

December 14, 2009

Science on Tap: Dinosaur Studies in China

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics.

January 11, 2010

Science on Tap: The Origin and Evolution of Beer

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics.

January 29, 2010

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

February 05, 2010

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

February 08, 2010

Science on Tap: Imperialism and the Family Business

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics.

February 12, 2010

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

February 14, 2010

Second Sundays: Wiggly Worms

Create your own worm art with teaching artist Shelley Hedlund.

February 19, 2010

The Darwin Music and Poetry Project

The APS Museum and Network for New Music have joined forces for an evening of new chamber works inspired by the work, the life, and the writings of Charles Darwin.

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

February 21, 2010

The Darwin Music and Poetry Project

The APS Museum and Network for New Music have joined forces for an evening of new chamber works inspired by the work, the life, and the writings of Charles Darwin.

February 26, 2010

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

March 05, 2010

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

Lisa Anne Auerbach: Pass It On

LA artist Lisa Anne Auerbach will discuss her work, including The Tract House: A Darwin Addition.

March 08, 2010

Science on Tap: The Impact of Meteors on the Origin and Early Evolution of Life

Science on Tap is a monthly science café in Philadelphia for anyone who is interested in getting together with other people to discuss a range of engaging science topics.

March 12, 2010

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition

Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach worked with the APS Museum on a second iteration of her series The Tract House. This version of her project, titled The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin.

March 14, 2010

Second Sundays: Printing from Nature

Create a unique leaf print on fabric or paper inspired by Darwin’s Tree of Life.