Museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation

Discover what you can see at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's museum! CHF's museum houses a groundbreaking exhibition, Making Modernity. Drawn from CHF's world-class collections, the exhibition includes scientific instruments and apparatus, rare books, fine art, and the personal papers of prominent scientists. Topics range from alchemy, synthetics, and the chemical-instrument revolution to chemistry education, electrochemistry, chemistry sets, and the science of color. 

The changing exhibits gallery currently features "Marvels and Ciphers: A Look Inside the Flask." This exhibit explores personal and public responses to scientific breakthroughs with paintings, photographs, books, and cartoons from CHFs collections. Read about this exhibit at http://www.chemheritage.org/marvels

Located in Philadelphia, the Chemical Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the history of chemistry. CHF's museum, which is free and open to the public, explores chemistry's contributions to modern life. In addition to its collections and library, CHF is also home to the Center for Contemporary History and Policy, where scholars lend historical perspective to current scientific issues.

To learn more, visit http://www.chemheritage.org

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