URBAN SEA, a site-specific textile installation and interactive experience byMelissa D’Agostino, inspires conversation about the river’s historic role as a water mass and its future evolution based on the health of our watershed systems. Engineered to unfurl alongside the river between six of the historic pavilion columns, URBAN SEA will showcase 60 yards of silk […]
Join Let’s Go Outdoors for a general family-friendly tour of the Fairmount Water Works! Learn about amazing grounds outside of the historic site, including the Fishway Dam, then head inside […]
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab. Do you wonder why leaves are green in the spring and summer, but change to red, yellow and orange in the fall? Investigate the different colored pigments in leaves, identify […]
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.) "A Bug's Life": A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, […]
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.) "A Bug's Life": A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, […]
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 1 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series! Week 1's theme is "I Spy...", an adventure in exploring the river/water with our sense of sight! Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, […]
Join Let’s Go Outdoors for a general family-friendly tour of the Fairmount Water Works! Learn about amazing grounds outside of the historic site, including the Fishway Dam, then head inside […]
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab. Do you wonder why leaves are green in the spring and summer, but change to red, yellow and orange in the fall? Investigate the different colored pigments in leaves, identify […]
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.) "A Bug's Life": A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, […]
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.) "A Bug's Life": A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, […]