Events for October 2 - October 8, 2022

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Sunday Cinema: “Free Birds”

Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.) Free Birds: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team […]

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Fall Open House

Continue your holiday festivities at the Fairmount Water Works!Enjoy a special tour of the historic landmark, including a behind-the-scenes look at Kelly Pool. Eye-level with the Schuylkill, you'll walk the […]

Fall Open House

Continue your holiday festivities at the Fairmount Water Works!Enjoy a special tour of the historic landmark, including a behind-the-scenes look at Kelly Pool. Eye-level with the Schuylkill, you'll walk the […]

Science Saturday: “Harvesting History: Philadelphia before the Europeans Arrived”

Native Americans are an important part of our Thanksgiving celebrations. Learn about the original residents of Philadelphia and their reliance on local rivers and streams. We will learn about their culture, lifestyle and diet and about the local environment thousands of years before European settlers arrived. You can weave a mat of natural materials like […]

Sunday Cinema: “Free Birds”

Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a […]

Sunday Cinema: “Free Birds”

Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a […]

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry: “It Matters!”

Head down to the Fairmount Water Works with your preschoolers (ages 3-5), and learn all about water! Starting August 26, join us Wednesday mornings from 10:30am - 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments. To support theses fun, hands-on activities, […]