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FREE Museum Day: 'Flash! Bang! Boom!' history of fireworks
Free-admission day with the timely ‘Flash! Bang! Boom! A History of Fireworks’ exhibit. (Fireman’s Hall Museum and Historic St. George’s are also free this day.)
WhereScience History Institute
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
CostFree
OrganizerWawa Welcome America
Source: https://www.visitphilly.com/articles/philadelphia/free-museum-days-philadelphia-attractions-wawa-welcome-america/. Details can change — confirm with the organizer before you go.
More on Friday, July 3
- TBA Hancock Day — 'Gettysburg Surgeons' author talk (Barbara Franco)
- 1:00 PM New Hope & Lambertville 250th — Fireworks + 200-Drone Show
- 6:00 PM Liberty Lights: Fireworks Friday 250 — Parry Mansion (New Hope Historical Society)
- 5:00 PM First Friday Extended Hours + Car Show — Schwenkfelder Library
- 5:30 PM Summer unWINEd Fireworks Night — Shady Brook Farm
- 9:00 PM 4th of July Fireworks & Celebration at Styer Orchard
- 12:00 AM Bridgeport America 250 — 'Big Boy' Steam Train + Declaration Reading
- 9:15 PM Conshohocken July 3rd Fireworks
- 10:00 AM Declaration of Independence Breakfast — Upper Gwynedd
- 12:00 AM Retreat to Valley Forge — 50/250 Celebration (Day 1)
- 12:00 PM Remember George Washington's March to Trenton (reenactment)
- 3:00 PM "The Crossing" — A Revolutionary New Musical
- 1:00 PM Film: '1776' (restored director's cut) — Princeton Public Library
- TBA Community fireworks (East Windsor / Ewing-TCNJ / North Branch Park)
- 7:05 PM Somerset 'Semiquincentennials' (Game 1)
- 8:30 PM '1776: The Movie Musical' Outdoor Cinema + 250th Midnight Countdown
- 5:30 PM Cocktails & Congress — Carpenters' Hall
- 10:00 AM 4th at the Fort! — Fort Mifflin
- 11:00 AM Liberty Medal Ceremony — Pope Leo XIV
- 7:00 PM Pops on Independence — Idina Menzel with The Philly Pops
- 11:00 AM Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade