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Pennsylvania's Founding: How a City and a Colony Shaped America's Civic DNA
September 30, 2026 - January 3, 2027

About

Presented with Drexel University, this exhibition features Benjamin Franklin’s 1556 Magna Carta printing, an original 1681 Pennsylvania Charter and Thomas Holme’s 1683 plan of Philadelphia, and looks at Penn’s ideals alongside Indigenous displacement and slavery.

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Where
525 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

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