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SURVIVOR! MARCH 10 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PROGRAM PARTNERS:
PHILADELPHIA SCIENCE FESTIVAL Amy Richardson, Alan Bronstein, SPEAKEASY: A CELEBRATION KICK-OFF PARTY: 8-BIT NIGHT Cooper Medical School at Rowan University, APRIL 24 (FRIDAY!) Drexel University, Evan Hoffman, OF ALL THINGS OUTLAWED Philly Homebrew Outlet, Photobot 3000, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 7:00 – 10:00PM TREK, WARS, & WHO: The Gin Canaries, National Constitution Center, JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE Temple University Neuroscience Society, MAY 12 Temple University TU Teach, & Thomas Jefferson University, for their support BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE in making tonight’s program a success! JUNE 2
CAMP FRANKLINANA: SUMMER CAMP Sponsored by: JULY 14 Revisit the roaring ‘20s, the decade that brought us bootleg liquor, flappers, and the booze catapult. Learn how to Lindy Hop, shoot rub- SCIENCE + ART ber band tommy guns, and discover the secrets to building a perfect AUGUST 11 still at over 30 activity stations throughout the museum’s first and second floors. GREEN: FROM ECO-FRIENDLY TO ENVY
SEPTEMBER 8 The Joel N. Bloom Observatory, on the 4th floor will be open for stargazing (weather permitting).
SUPERHEROES Earn chances to win 2015 After Hours tickets! Get your bootleg liquor to our OCTOBER 13 Secret Speakeasy and be entered in a raffle to win. Just make sure you take a moment to enjoy music from the Gin Canaries. These birds will take you on a trip back to the Jazz Age while you take a quick lesson on the Charleston. Winners MR. FRANKLIN’S GYM CLASS will be chosen after the event and notified via email. NOVEMBER 17 A selection of wines, craft beers, sandwiches, and other snacks are available for purchase in our Atrium Café, Franklin Food Works, and a cash-only bar on the First Floor. 1st FLOOR ACTIVITIES AMAZING MACHINE: FRANKLIN FOODWORKS WISDOM HALL PLANETARIUM HALLWAY: Colorful Cocktails: Come add some Speakeasy Tales: Step up to the bar and Bootlegging by the Numbers: Drexel color to your life by learning how to make place your order! Check out our menu of University will show you how to use a bit Home Made Brew: Learn some beer layered cocktails that are sure to elevate entertaining and engaging Prohibition-era of mathematics to improve your chances at making basics with Philly Homebrew Outlet any ordinary speakeasy. stories, served up by our friendly tale- bootlegging success. and try a sample of homemade suds. telling bartender. Hair of the Dragon: Lucky Strike? Roll the Dice: Roll the dice to explore how In the Still of the Night: Experience Chesterfield? How about Dragon’s Breath? Prisoner’s Dilemma: What will you do? likely you are to win it big when probability FLOOR distilling technology and learn how Make a few puffs of your own with a rum- Participate in the classic gamble of the is guiding the numbers. 1 Train Factory moonshiners across the country would create soaked treat. Prisoner’s Dilemma. Think your winning thirst quenchers that packed a punch. Gambler’s Fallacy: streak will continue indefinitely? Think again. D BEN’S BRICK HOUSE (IMAX): FRANKLIN MEMORIAL: Take your chances and track your ‘luck’ From the Franklin Institute’s throughout the night. SPACE COMMAND: Up and Over: Alcohol containers were flung over borders by catapults during Collection: For all those guys and dolls BAR Prohibition. Build your own booze catapult who prefer to stay in and forgo the nightlife. YOUR BRAIN: Aluminum Rum Runner: Build an Get up close with artifacts from the Franklin and see how far your bootleg bottles fly. Planetarium aluminum boat to see how much booze Institute’s collection showcasing home you can smuggle. Just make sure to keep Forget Me Not: There are some nights we entertainment technology from the 1920s. C an eye out for the Feds! might wish to forget—but would you really CHANGING EARTH: choose to if you could? Consider the pros Paper Cup Phones: Stop by the AT&T and cons of a future where drugs can alter Hot Rod Haulers: The American hot rod Learn the The Scope of Evolution: table and have a chat using your own your memory and help The Franklin Institute’s was born during Prohibition—bootleggers fundamentals of this controversial trial paper cup phone. design team develop a new exhibit! made faster cars to try to outrun that pitted a substitute teacher against the B authorities. Build a balloon powered car State of Tennessee in 1925. Examine the B Space Photobot 3000: Don’t forget to get Sensory Room: Check out our sensory Command and see how fast you can make it go! evolutionary connections between humans a snapshot at Photobot 3000 for your room in Your Brain for a stimulating and those before us. Underwater Smuggler: Dive into the Science After Hours scrapbook. experience. It’s the cat’s pajamas! Line closes deep and try to get your contraband at 9:30 pm. What’s the Password?: Bootleggers to thirsty landlubbers by building a ELECTRICITY: made constant use of ciphers and submarine. Did you know that submarines Spinning Wheels: The room won’t be cryptography to communicate their the only thing spinning! Take a turn on our are still used today for smuggling? Hidden Hooch: What’s hiding in there? deliveries. See if your word skills hold up. hangover wheel and find out why some View some ultrasounds and see if you can people prefer a strong cuppa joe and others find the hidden hooch. Patent Proof: Welcome to Dr. P. Nuckle’s a fried ham slider. TRAIN FACTORY: Apothecary! Pneumonia? Asthma? Night Cap: Drinking booze wasn’t the Headache? Just need to cut that edge off Join your friend Logos only nighttime activity that was outlawed in The Way I See It: Hobo Lingo: Hop on the Baldwin 60000 of your work day? Nip these symptoms in and Pathos and take a look at 1920s the ‘20s. See how the lack of prophylactics and learn the language of the hobos, the bud with a custom “prescription.” propaganda to see if your declaration created a public health nightmare. migratory workers whose population grew Note: Dr. P. Nuckle is not a real doctor. deviates when you sip Temperance Tea and during Prohibition. Suffrage Soup. FLOOR Amazing 2 Franklin See how different Machine Ben’s Brick House A Spirited Review: FRANKLIN AIRSHOW: THE GIANT HEART: Zozzled, Corked, or Tanked? Don’t think Air Show types of alcohol can fuel some amazing & ight that a drink or two affects you? Think again. simulators reactions! Flight Simulator! Take a break from the Forensics Lab: Hear from the Philly Learn just how may highballs it takes to speakeasy action and enjoy a FREE ride on Police Department how drugs came to make someone quite the drunkard. be controlled and how forensic chemists D our Flight Simulator! Line closes at 9:30 pm. 2nd FLOOR ACTIVITIES use color tests to screen for substances in ATRIUM Put Em’ Up! Learn the inner workings of modern forensic laboratories. 4th FLOOR ACTIVITIES the Prohibition Era’s infamous weapon of ATRIUM: choice for both law enforcers and gangsters. Bad Medicine: Medicine is always A Join the “Rubber Band Gang” and test a sharp good for you, right? Not always! Join OBSERVATORY: Thomas Jefferson University and learn shooting rubber band Tommy Gun. C Science After Hours Presents: The about popular 1920s medicines, including Noble Gases, a monthly live science Take A Gander! Channel your inner Daisy Come get a real charge radioactive water, cocaine, and morphine. Buchanan as you look for lights in the sky Wisdom Sparks a’ Flyin’: Your Brain Hall show at 7:30 pm, 8:30 pm and 9:30 Changing our of our Van Der Graaff machine! This in the Joel Bloom Observatory. Take a peek Earth pm. This month’s program: Booze, Prohibition-era invention will be sure to get Beware the Den: Explore how various at the moon and stars through our amazing Franklin Memorial Bett’in, and Broads. some sparks flying. substances affect your body, including Prohibition-era telescope. Key Hall those commonly used during Prohibition, B B BAR Discover the difference between with scientists from Cooper Medical School. TAKE ELEVATOR B TO THE 4TH FLOOR Electricity good and bad hooch in this 1920s KEY HALLWAY: TO GET TO THE OBSERVATORY “infomercial” from two highly skilled Coatroom bootleggers. It’s Soda, Jerk!: Grab some temperance Franklin Foodworks tea and hear about the techniques we The Noble Gases are brought to you by The have to put the fizz in your life with these Franklin Institute’s Traveling Science Show carbonated concoctions. Giant Heart