When you enter the Institute's great hall after the entry lobby, the seated marble statue of Franklin has a grandeur like the Lincoln Memorial. The science exhibits and planetarium are worth an entire day.
...My Electrical Apparatus I give to Yale College at New-haven in Connecticut...Last Will and Testament [28 April 1757]
As a child, living in south Jersey across the river from Philadelphia, family trips and school field trips to the Franklin Institute were some of the most wonderful experiences in my early education. They were inspirational. I still have some souvenirs from those visits.
Sitting in the Fels Planetarium gave me my interest and lifelong love of astronomy. And the giant heart nearly turned me into a biologist.
When you enter the Institute's great hall after the entry lobby, the seated marble statue of Franklin has a grandeur like the Lincoln Memorial. The science exhibits and planetarium are worth an entire day.
