Upcoming Events
Media Architecture Walking Tour 6:00pm - 8:00pm 05/22/13
Pricing & more info www.preservationalliance.com/events/walking_tours.php ****Media was planned in the 1850s as the seat of Delaware County.
Where: Meet in front of Delaware County Court House, Front St. & Courthouse Square.
Annual Saturnalia Books Reading 6:00pm - 8:00pm 05/22/13
Saturnalia Books announces its annual poetry reading to celebrate recent publications by Hadara Bar-Nadav, Natalie Shapero and William Kulik.
Where: The Athenaeum in Philadelphia 219 S. 6th St.
Real NJ Housewife Teresa Giudice Returns! 6:00pm - 8:00pm 05/23/13
Meet Teresa Giudice of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and pick up a signed copy of her latest book, "On the Grill: Teresa's Smoking Hot Backyard Recipes."Just in time for summer, Giudice debuts the newest cookbook in her "Fabulicious!" series.
Where: Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street
Victorian Phila West of Broad Architecture Walking Tour 10:00am - 12:00pm 05/25/13
Pricing & more info www.preservationalliance.com/events/walking_tours.php ****Take in the total experience of Phila during the Gilded Age.
Where: Meet at steps of the Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St.
Docent-led Tour: The Native American Southwest 1:30pm - 2:30pm 05/25/13
Penn Museum collaborated with Native Americans of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Apache nations to select the artifacts and tell the stories about these four peoples who live in the open landscape of the American Southwest--and who prize a sacred and cultural connection with their environment.
Where: Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
City Hall to City Hall Architecture Walking Tour 2:00pm - 4:00pm 05/25/13
Pricing & more info www.preservationalliance.com/events/walking_tours.php ****View 3 centuries of American architecture along a single street on just one tour.
Where: Meet at NE corner of 5th & Chestnut Sts.
Docent-led Tour: The Etruscan/Roman World 1:30pm - 2:30pm 05/26/13
Explore the rich, interconnected cultures of the sun-drenched ancient Mediterranean--and discover how these cultures continue to influence and inspire our world today.
Where: Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Gilded Age Phila Architecture Walking Tour 2:00pm - 4:00pm 05/26/13
Pricing & more info www.preservationalliance.com/events/walking_tours.php ****Experience Philadelphia in the Gilded Age when wealthy industrialists turned to architecture to express money and power.
Where: Meet at steps of the Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St.
Post Industrial City Architecture Walking Tour 6:00pm - 8:00pm 05/29/13
Post Industrial City: Callowhill St.
Where: Meet at the former Inquirer Bldg, 400 N. Broad St.
Docent-Led Tour: Majestic Objects of the Chinese Rotunda 1:30pm - 2:30pm 06/01/13
Soaring 90 feet high, the Penn Museum's magnificent Chinese Rotunda features some of the finest monumental Chinese art in the United States.
Where: Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
