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Bringing history and innovation to life

Virtual Talks Available Online!

If you missed one of our Virtual Talks and classes, they are available on demand on their respective event pages and through our YouTube channel.
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We're Reopening!

We are excited to announce that following new UK government guidelines on museums and galleries, Benjamin Franklin House will be reopening to the public.
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Live Science Class for Kids: Ben Franklin and the Solar System

Join our series of weekly virtual classes to learn how Ben Franklin’s inventions and scientific discoveries illuminate the national curriculum! You can recreate all the featured science demonstrations at home using household materials.
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Virtual Talk - True Grid: François-Marc-Louis Naville and his moral tables

Harro Maas, professor in history and methodology of economics at the Centre Walras-Pareto for the history of economic and political thought at the University of Lausanne,  will use these words from the diary of François-Marc-Louis Naville, a turn-of-the nineteenth-century Genevese pastor and pedagogical innovator, as a cue to examine his use of Benjamin Franklin’s tools of moral calculation and a lesser known tool, Marc-Antoine Jullien’s moral thermometer, to improve his moral character.
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Virtual Talk: The Rise of the Private Banker in Franklin's London

To join directly on Wednesday 22nd July at 3pm BST/10am EST use the zoom link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89554563689?pwd=MVpRUXNNRm9SOHovUFlZRHZzTFppdz09 Password:…
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Virtual Talk: Franklin, the Abolitionist

House Director, Dr. Márcia Balisciano, will explain how Franklin became the American founder who campaigned against slavery, spending his last days as the President of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
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Polymath Festival at Benjamin Franklin House (Postponed)

As part of the Polymath Festival, Benjamin Franklin House stages an immersive tour of the world's only remaining home of Benjamin Franklin with a drama that seamlessly blends live interpretation and cutting edge sound, lighting, and visual projection to tell the rich story of Benjamin Franklin’s 16 polymathic years in London.
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  • Your Visit

    Historical Experience

    The Historical Experience presents the excitement and uncertainty of Franklin’s London years using rooms where so much took place as staging for a drama that integrates live performance, cutting edge lighting, sound and visual projection.

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  • Our Tour

    Architectural Tour

    On this guided exploration of the House the many original Georgian features are revealed along with its fascinating history encompassing Franklin’s long residence (1757-1775), the Hewson anatomy school, Victorian hoteliers and the conservation project that saved it from dereliction.

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  • About

    Find out about Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an American mother, Abiah Folger and a British father, Josiah in 1706. Considered the father of electricity, through his inventions, writings, and extensive activities as a printer, philosopher and more, Franklin helped advance the Age of Enlightenment.

    As a key founder of the United States, he is the only statesman to have signed all four documents that created a new nation: The Declaration of Independence (1776), the Treaty of Alliance with France (1778), the Treaty of Paris establishing peace with Britain (1783) and The Constitution (1787).

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  • News

    We’re Reopening!

    We are excited to announce that following new UK government guidelines on museums and galleries, Benjamin Franklin House will be reopening to the public for Architectural Tours from July 4th weekend!

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