The kick-off to Night of Lights 2026, the Chestnut Hill Conservancy’s free outdoor public history, architecture, and design exhibition celebrating more than 250 years of history, landscapes, and architecture in Northwest Philadelphia with family-friendly activities, projected exhibitions, illuminated buildings, live music, and more.
Can you hear the dead? Journey through Laurel Hill East to uncover Philadelphia’s fascinating Spiritualist past, where mediums, believers, and skeptics sought—or doubted—the possibility of communicating with departed loved ones. Continue reading
Come explore esoteric medicine at The Legacy Center Archives! Continue reading
People’s Media Camp makes a comeback this year, Saturday and Sunday, October 3–4, as a a two-day gathering for grassroots preservationists, archivists, community historians, artists, and memory workers to share skills, stories, and strategies for resisting erasure and imagining free collective futures.
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A free outdoor public history, architecture, and design exhibition celebrating more than 250 years of history, landscapes, and architecture in Northwest Philadelphia. Continue reading
Step into the past with a cemetery tour that explores the stories of those whose final moments were shared — whether bound by fate, tragedy, or devotion — and now rest together for eternity. Continue reading
Join PACSCL’s Harmful Language Working Group (HLWG) as they announce their best practices for reparative description.
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Celebrate Archives Month Philly in the Wagner’s historic lecture hall as we view glass lantern slides from local special collections! Continue reading
An introduction to PAB and step-by-step lessons in searching and exploring the resources it contains. Continue reading
The Free Library of Philadelphia, in partnership with the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, is hosting a free, interactive community fair featuring pop-up exhibitions, demonstrations, and table-top activities that showcase how sports, games, and play are documented in and catalyzed by archives and special collections. Continue reading
Join the Historical Medical Library as we step ‘Out of the Archives’ for our Fall Open House! Meet our team, explore fascinating collections materials hand-picked by staff, and discover what makes us one of the world’s premier research collections in the history of medicine. Continue reading
Night of Lights continues beyond the four-night exhibition with the 10×10 History Jam, a fast-paced community storytelling program featuring 10 speakers, each with 10 slides and 5 minutes to share a story about Chestnut Hill and/or Northwest Philadelphia. Continue reading
What’s your Germantown story? Continue reading
Open House where you will engage with The Alexander Artway Archive’s historic black and white photography from the 1920’s – 1940’s of New York’s architectural heyday, meet the stewards of the collection, and learn about methods for preserving artwork for future generations. Continue reading
Come join us for a program at Founding Forward’s Philadelphia campus (within The Union League of Philadelphia), featuring items from our collections about how the Union League has celebrated major milestones in American history.
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OYRHS Open House and Book Sale Continue reading
Join this intimate tour to explore life after the Revolution through getting up close and personal with household artifacts and their archival links. Continue reading
This panel event will discuss the challenges of managing born digital institutional records. Continue reading
Dr. Jenny Spinner, student writers, and alumni, will discuss the importance of preserving University history through student media and displays of past issues will be shown. Continue reading
Celebrate Archives Month Philly with a special live edition of Unique at Penn, the blog series showcasing the fascinating discoveries found in Penn’s special collections and archives. Continue reading
Seldom-seen weird and wonderful short films from Philadelphia archives and museums! Continue reading
Visit Swarthmore College this Halloween to learn about the Spiritualism movement that swept mid 19th century America. What did Quakers – some alive at the time, some already deceased and sending messages from the Spirit World – have to say about the trend? Continue reading
Margaret “Meg” Strawbridge Butterworth, author of “Philadelphia’s Strawbridge and Clothier: From Our Family to Yours” speaks at Springfield Township Historical Society’s History in Motion event. Continue reading
