URBAN CURRICULUM

Students at The Philadelphia School are not limited to a few special field trips each year. Instead museums, historic sites, and other destinations often become "home base" for thematic studies. For example, the Middle School's examination of ancient civilizations often focuses around the collections of Penn's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The Primary Unit's study of a 19th-century Japanese manuscript was in partnership with the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Last year the school participated in the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary's official celebration of Franklin's 300th birthday; the Middle School worked with several Philadelphia cultural and educational insitutions to produce the online exhibit Franklin Remixed.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a frequent destination for art classes and theme classes alike. A First Friday tour of Old City galleries is an eighth grade tradition.

RECENT TRIPS

Academy of Fine Arts
Academy of Natural Sciences
African American Museum
Arch Street Meeting House
Barnes Foundation
Civil War Museum and Library
Cliveden
Fairmont Waterworks
Fort Mifflin
Franklin Institute
Indenpendence Hall
Johnson House
Kimmel Center for Performing Arts
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Longwood Gardens
Morris Arboretum
Mother Bethel AME Church
New Jersey State Aquarium
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Zoo
Rosenbach Museum and Library
Strawberry Mansion
UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Wagner Free Institute of Science
Zellerbach Theater