Event Calendar
Indicates Members Only Events
Indicates Reservations Required
(To make a reservation contact Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688 or
sgallo@philaathenaeum.org
unless other instructions are given)
| February 4 | 11:00am-3:00pm | First Saturday, Athenaeum open. |
| February 6 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Coffee Day in Members' Reading
Room.
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| 2:00-4:00pm | Mah Jong Lessons with Lois Reibach.
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| February 14 | 11:00am | Socrates Cafe discussion
group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at
gsfesq@verizon.net
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| February 20 | Closed for Presidents Day. | |
| February 22 | 5:30pm | Lecture and book signing:
Witold Rybczynski, The Biography of a Building: How Robert
Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Free
for Athenaeum members, all others $10. For additional information
and online payment, click here.
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| March 3 | 11:00am-3:00pm | First Saturday, Athenaeum open. |
| March 5 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Coffee Day in Members' Reading
Room.
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| March 7 | 5:30pm | Lecture and book signing: John
Dixon Hunt, A World of Gardens. Free for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| March 9 | 3:30pm | Lecture and book signing:
Lawrence M. Arrigale and Thomas H. Keels, Philadelphia's Golden
Age of Retail. Free for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| March 13 | 11:00am | Socrates Cafe discussion
group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at
gsfesq@verizon.net
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| March 28 | 6:00pm | The Alvin Holm Lecture: Francis
Morrone, The New York Public Library: The Architecture and
Decoration of the Stephen A Schwarzman Building by Henry Hope
Reed , Francis Morrone and Anne Day. Free for Athenaeum
and Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| April 2 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Coffee Day in Members' Reading
Room.
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| April 4 | 6:00pm | Saturnalia Books Poetry Reading.
Free to all. For additional information,
click here.
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| April 6 | Closed for Good Friday. | |
| April 7 | 11:00am-3:00pm | First Saturday, Athenaeum open. |
| April 9 | 5:30pm | Annual Meeting. Speaker: Dr.
Elizabeth Milroy, "Olmsted and Vaux in Philadelphia, 1867-72: Fact
or Fiction." Invitation Only.
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| Exhibition Opens: Elegant Things & Vile Uses: The Civil War and the United States Capitol Building. | ||
| April 10 | 11:00am | Socrates Cafe discussion
group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at
gsfesq@verizon.net
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| April 11 | 3:00pm | Gallery Talk by Curator Bruce
Laverty on Elegant Things & Vile Uses: The Civil War and the
United States Capitol Building. Free.
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| May 2 | 5:30pm | Lecture and book signing:
Alice Kessler-Harris, A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life
and Times of Lillian Hellman. Free for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| May 4 | 5:30pm | First Friday Gallery Talk by Curator
Bruce Laverty on Elegant Things & Vile Uses: The Civil War and
the United States Capitol Building. Free.
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| May 5 | 11:00am-3:00pm | First Saturday, Athenaeum open. |
| May 7 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Coffee Day in Members' Reading
Room.
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| May 9 | 5:30pm | Lecture and book signing: Sam
Watters, Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935.
Free for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| May 14 | 11:00am | Socrates Cafe discussion
group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at
gsfesq@verizon.net
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| May 16 | 5:30pm | Lecture and book signing:
Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the
Rise of France. Free for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| May 18 | 3:30pm | Lecture and book signing:
Lynmar Brock, Jr., In This Hospitable Land. Free for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| May 28 | Closed for Memorial Day. | |
| June 1 | 5:00-7:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale Members Only
Reception.
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| June 2 | 11:00am-3:00pm | First Saturday, Athenaeum open. |
| 11:00am-3:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale | |
| June 4 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale |
| 10:00am-4:00pm | Coffee Day in Members' Reading
Room.
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| June 5 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale |
| June 6 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale |
| June 7 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale |
| 3:30pm | Lecture and book signing:
Robert Morris Skaler, Society Hill and Old City. Free
for Athenaeum
members, all others $10. For additional information and online
payment, click here.
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| June 8 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Athenaeum Book Sale |
