Philadelphia - Franklin Institute: Fels Planetarium

            Reflections of Greatness, an 11-foot by 9-foot mural outside the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute by Evan Lovett.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened on January 1, 1934 in the expansive neoclassical building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway designed by John T. Windrem.  Owing to the effects of the the Great Depression, only two the wings envisioned by Windrem, surrounding the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, were built.  Today the Institute offers 12 permanent hands-on exhibits and hosts renowned traveling exhibits in its more than 400,000 square feet of exhibit space, two auditoriums, and the Tuttleman IMAX Theater. 

The Franklin Institute, founded as the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts in 1824 by Samuel Vaughan Merrick and William H. Keating , is one of the oldest centers of science education and development in the United States.  Named after Benjamin Franklin, America's "first scientist", it was housed in a building on 7th Street that is now home to the Philadelphia History Museum until it moved to its current home on Logan Square.  

Many scientists have demonstrated groundbreaking new technology at the Institute over the years. It hosted the International Electrical Exhibition of 1884, the first great electrical exposition in the United States. Nikola Tesla demonstrated the principle of wireless telegraphy at the institute in 1893. The world's first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system was given by Philo Taylor Farnsworth on August 25, 1934.

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Taken in: United States / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia / Spring Garden (show map)

Taken on: December 30, 2022

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