Print Aweigh, Take Away!

Join in for a weekend of hands-on science, history and art activities and walking tour that will all make a great impression! The APS Museum, the Independence Seaport Museum, and the Printing Office and Bindery at Franklin Court (part of Independence National Historical Park) have joined forces to celebrate an age-old technique for communication – printing words on paper.

APRIL 10 & 11

APS Museum
104 S. Fifth Street
10am – 5pm
• Go treasure hunting for fossils, pigeons and much more in the Dialogues with Darwin exhibition
• Have fun creating prints with stencils and stamps with artist Martin Campos
• Make your very own book with renowned book artist Rosae Reader
• Grab a free copy of our quirky Walking Tour Map

APS Museum Walking Tour
Guided tours leave from the APS Museum
Noon and 2pm
(or follow our map on your own; you choose the time)
• Experience the most off-beat sites in historic Old City including Cappelini Jr. Stamps and Hobbies (313 Market Street) for out-of-this-world model trains, planes and space vehicles, Victor Gordon (31 N. 3rd) for African masks and Pierre’s (211 N. 3rd Street) Philadelphia’s premiere costume store.
• Wend your way to artist Lisa Anne Auerbach’s Tract House which offers an evolutionary twist on the classic religious publications called tracts

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition
231 N. 3rd Street
10am – 5pm
• Browse and take home some colorful free tracts inspired by Darwin and evolution
• Create your own tracts – we’ll post them at the Tract House!

Printing Office and Bindery at Franklin Court (part of Independence National Historical Park)
320 Market Street (enter through courtyard)
11am – 5pm
• See a working model of the printing press used by Ben Franklin and learn how he would have used it
• Watch demonstrations of the art of pamphlet sewing

Independence Seaport Museum
211 S. Columbus Blvd. Penn’s Landing
Children $7
Adults $12
Seniors $10
10am – 5pm

APRIL 10 Only

Independence Seaport Museum
211 S. Columbus Blvd. Penn’s Landing
1 – 3pm:
• Anchors Aweigh! Climb aboard the historic War Cruiser Olympia to check out the exhibit The Bounding Billow: Sailors Printing on the High Seas.
• Watch Cannonball Press artists crank out shipboard leaflets using an 1895 letterpress – free copies for all.

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Print Aweigh, Take Away! is part of the public programming in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print.