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The Franklin Institute

19103 Philadelphia, PA, United States of America (USA) (Pennsylvania)
Address 271 North 21st Street
 
 
Floor area only roughly guessed: 20 000 m² / 215 278 ft²  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Science Museums in general
  • Navy / Watercraft
  • Robotic
  • Clocks and Watches
  • Electricity / Magnetism
  • Air and Space (aviation, spaceflight etc.)
  • Imax & "Maxi screen"
  • Optics
  • Railway
  • Planetarium
  • Biology / Medicine
  • Lamps and Light
  • Electrical Applications
  • Physics

Opening times
 9:30am - 5:00pm

Admission
Status from 03/2020
 General Museum Adult: $23.00; Child: $19.00;
Contact
Tel.:+1-215-448-12 00  Fax:+1-215-448-12 35  
eMail:guestservices fi.edu   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.fi.edu
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Location / Directions
N39.958734° W75.174023°N39°57.52404' W75°10.44138'N39°57'31.4424" W75°10'26.4828"
The Franklin Institute Science Museum is located in Center City Philadelphia, at the intersection of 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Museum's parking garage entrance is located behind the building at the intersection of 21st Street and Winter Street. Note that oversized vehicles will not fit into the garage. The height limit is 6'3". Bring your parking ticket to the Box Office for validation in order to receive reduced rates.

The GPS address of our parking garage entrance is:
271 North 21st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Public Transportation

If you are traveling to The Franklin Institute by SEPTA's Regional Rail or Amtrak, Suburban Station and 30th Street Station are both short cab rides away. If you are able, Suburban Station is in close walking distance and 30th Street is in moderately close walking distance. Go to SEPTA and use their trip planner for helpful hints on getting around the city or visit Amtrak for directions from 30th Street Station.

If you are riding the PATCO Hi-Speedline from South Jersey, take it to 15th/16th Streets and Locust. From there, you are a short cab ride to or in moderately close walking distance from the Institute.

From Delaware County, take the Norristown 100 Line to the 69th Street Terminal. Ride the Market-Frankford line to 30th Street. From there, you can take the free transfer to the Trolley Green Line to 19th Street. The R5 Septa route will also work
Description

Permanent exhibits

* Electricity, which replaced Franklin...He's Electric in 2010, showcases Franklin's discovery of electricity and its use in the modern world, including elements such as a sustainable dance floor, and an array of LEDs that turn on in the presence of cell phone signals and other low-power electrical signals. (Electricity and Technology)
* Changing Earth, which opened to the public, along with Electricity, on March 27, 2010, focuses on the powerful forces of air, water, and land and their effect upon the earth, as well as how humans respond to and interact with these forces.
* The Franklin Airshow features The Wright Brothers Aeronautical Engineering Collection, their newly restored Model B Flyer, and a U.S. Air Force 1948 T-33 Shooting Star Jet Trainer. (Aviation and Technology) * The Giant Heart has been a Philadelphia icon since its opening in 1954. (Biology, Chemistry and Anatomy)
* The Joel N. Bloom Observatory, remodeled in 2006, features five telescopes, including a giant 10" Zeiss Refractor and four 8" Meade Reflectors. * The Sports Challenge is an interactive exhibit that shows the science behind sports. (Physics and Technology)
* The Train Factory has a real, moving train: The Baldwin 60000 steam locomotive. (History, Engineering and Technology)
* Sir Isaac's Loft, allows visitors to blend art and science into their own masterpiece. (Physics and Art)
* Space Command features real space suits and allows visitors to track their houses, in real time, via satellite. (Astronomy, Technology and Mathematics)
* Amazing Machine allows visitors to experience a machine-like environment featuring little-seen pieces from The Franklin Institute's priceless collection, including Maillardet's Automaton, believed to have the largest cam-based memory of any automaton of the era.

Attractions with extra cost, see museum's website:

Flight Simulators

Blue Angels Adventure Flight Simulator

Step into the pilot seat and fly alongside an actual U.S. Navy Blue Angel. Hold tight as you pitch, roll and yaw over the Golden Gate Bridge! Feel the blasts of air as other pilots swoosh by and grab the edge of your seat as you soar straight up into the air and eventually, land back on solid ground. Riders must be 38 inches tall.
 

Max Flight

See how good of a pilot you are as you take on sharp banks, 360-degree rolls and sky loops! Hold on to your seats and experience screaming dives of pulse-pounding aerial combat. Located inside Franklin Air Show, Max Flight takes you into a virtual world of flight training and aerobatic maneuvers! Riders must be 50 inches tall. Footwear restrictions apply.
 

Sky Bike

Vertex Launched in 2000 as the only high wire bike on the East Coast, and only the second in the entire United States, the Sky Bike sits 28-feet high above the Bartol Atrium. As visitors peddle on a two-wheel bike, across a 60-foot wire, only one-inch in diameter, it would take over 113,800 lbs. of direct force applied to the cable to break it! With a 250-pound weight that hangs below the bike to prevent it from tipping over the Sky Bike is an interactive way for visitors to learn the law of "center of gravity" in dramatic fashion! Riders must be 56-inches tall. Footwear restrictions apply.
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