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Museum · Logan Square / Benjamin Franklin Parkway
The Franklin Institute
222 North 20th Street, Philadelphia 19103
One of the oldest science museums in the United States, on Logan Circle along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Visitors walk through the Giant Heart, explore space, the brain and sports science, and see the national memorial to Benjamin Franklin; a large hall hosts traveling blockbuster exhibitions.
Permanent exhibitions
- The Giant Heart and Body Odyssey
- Wondrous Space (two-story space science gallery)
- Your Brain
- The Franklin Air Show and The Train Factory, with the Baldwin 60000 locomotive
- SportsZone
- Fels Planetarium
- Benjamin Franklin National Memorial
- Hamilton Collections Gallery (Franklin and science artifacts)
