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was revealed as Fairmount Park's Memorial Hall, home to the Please Touch Museum. Organizers are expecting around 6,000 people to attend tonight's pop-up dinner, which runs from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m ...
Philadelphia's famed children's museum is all grown up. The Please Touch Museum ... a historic new location in Fairmount Park. The museum's new home, Memorial Hall, was originally built in ...
What a first impression you’ll get! The Please Touch Museum’s new home is Memorial Hall right in Fairmount Park. Created for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, Memorial Hall’s imposingly grand ...
Fairmount Park’s Memorial ... who recently gave $5 million to the Please Touch Museum. On Oct. 18, the children’s museum will officially reopen in Memorial Hall, which has undergone an $ ...
That's how long rain seeped through the dome of the Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park -- that ... stunning architecture The Please Touch Museum, which is the current tenant of the historical ...
The children’s museum in the historic Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park has been closed since March because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia has scrapped its ...
The Please Touch Museum’s 2008 move to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park did not work out as planned. Revenue from admissions did not reach projected levels. Neither did donations. And the old ...
After a nine-month repair job, the dome at Memorial Hall has been restored ... from the Historic Commission and Fairmount Park,” Please Touch Museum President/CEO Lynn McMaster said in a ...
part of an $88 million adaptive-reuse project for the Please Touch Museum. Built in 1875 to serve as the art gallery for the Centennial International Exhibition in Fairmount Park, Memorial Hall stands ...
The dome of Memorial Hall and its ... the green dome rising over the treetops of Fairmount Park has been a beacon for children – and their parents – looking forward to uniquely engaging play in the ...
The Please Touch Museum is located on the southwest edge of Fairmount Park (just north of the Philadelphia Zoo) in the northwestern part of the city. The museum is accessible via PHLASH bus stop ...
The woman who took a minor children’s museum from a small space on the Ben Franklin Parkway into the restored Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park is retiring. The woman who took a minor children’s museum ...