Franklin Science Museum is a large three-story building with spacious galleries, demonstration halls and own observatory . The idea of its foundation belongs to Merrick . and . Keating, who wanted the main the theme of the expositions was the so-called "mechanical art" . The museum was named after the statesman Benjamin Franklin, who, besides, was also a good inventor . It was his works that became the basis of the museum collection . There is no mark that it was the first National Museum of Science and Technology in the United States to promote not so much inventions themselves as their practicality . Today Franklin Research Institute's expositions are demonstrated by innovative technologies, writings of inventors and scientists of the 18-20 centuries and other miracles of technology . @ Also there is a planetarium for children . Children's Dinosaur Hall is of special interest . In addition to all this, the museum has interactive exhibitions that give guests the opportunity to see a giant heart, hear the buzz of an airplane and visit the center of the globe .
Franklin Research Institute
Address: Philadelphia, North 20th Street, 222.
Opening hours: 9:30 - 17:00.
Entrance: Cost of the full ticket 16 , 5 USD. For visitors from 3 to 11 14 USD
Information is indicated on June 6, 2014
Franklin Institute of Science
Ben Franklin, Franklin Institute of Science
Entrance to the Franklin Institute of Science
Main Stairway , Franklin Institute of Science
Dinosaur, Franklin Institute of Science
Miniature of the aircraft carrier, Franklin Institute of Science
