Events for July 20 - May 16

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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 […]

Schuylkill Soundings: City in a Park

Meet the authors of City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller for a special book signing and lecture at the Fairmount Water Works.About City in a ParkFairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling approximately 11,000 acres, and is […]

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 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 […]

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 same underground paths as a royal family and Olympic swimmers.Visitors of all ages will be able to calculate the “water footprint” of their holiday meal […]

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 same underground paths as a royal family and Olympic swimmers.Visitors of all ages will be able to calculate the “water footprint” of their holiday meal […]