"Design Zone: Behind the Scenes" (Franklin Institute, Jan. 28, April 1) The Franklin Institute has just opened the highly interactive "Design Zone" exhibition, which allows visitors to see how skate-park designers, music producers, roller-coaster engineers, video-game designers and others use math to do what they do. Museum-goers will be able to try it all. The institute is also organizer of the citywide Philadelphia Science Festival, April 20 to 29, including the Science Carnival on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on April 21. (215-448-1200 or http://www2.fi.edu; for the science festival also see http://www.philasciencefestival.org)
Spring Arts - Museums: Exhibitions from a birthday to the Boss
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"Everything Under the Sun" (Academy of Natural Sciences, March 3-May 12) One of two photography exhibitions the academy is mounting this spring. "Everything Under the Sun" will feature new photographs of academy specimens by Rosamond Purcell. Shortly after it closes, on May 26, "Flirtatious Feathers: A Colorful Collection of Academy Bird Photographs" will open, and run until Sept. 23. (215-299-1000 or http://www.ansp.org)
"Fiber Points: Textile and Handcraft Heritage From the Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania" (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Feb. 28-June 15) The exhibition will feature images and materials from the David S. Brown & Co. records, Chew family papers, and other collections detailing the history of textile manufacturing in the Philadelphia area. It will also include craft artifacts - bonnets, gloves, lace, antique fabric swatches. At 6 p.m. March 15, Pamela Butler of the University of Notre Dame will present a talk, "The Knitting Revolution," which will explore the legacy of knitting and feminism. (215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org)
"Run! Super-Athletes of the Sierra Madre" (Penn Museum, March 31-Sept. 30) The show is about the Tarahumara people, considered the world's greatest long-distance runners. Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (2009), will give the museum's annual Petersen Lecture on April 11. (215-898-4000 or http://www.penn.museum)
"Sosúa: Dare To Dance" (National Museum of American Jewish History, March 4) The museum presents this original musical, based on the story of European Jews who escaped Germany before the Holocaust and found refuge in the town of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic. Composer Liz Swados also directs. (215-923-3811 or http://www.nmajh.org)
"Home of the Brave: The War of 1812 in Art, Story & Song" (Independence Seaport Museum, March 15-Dec. 31) The show marks the 200th anniversary of the war. The museum will also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster with "Titanic Philadelphians" (April 14-Dec. 31), which focuses on the personal lives of the Philadelphians directly affected by the disaster. (215-413-8655 or http://www.phillyseaport.org)
- Stephan Salisbury
Contact culture writer Stephan Salisbury at 215-854-5594, ssalisbury@phillynews.com, or @SPSalisbury on Twitter.
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