Atwater Kent Museum
The Atwater Kent Museum is the museum of history of the town of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1938 under the impulse of the mayor of the time, S. Davis Wilson and of Frances Wistar, which convainquirent the inventor A. Atwater Kent to buy the building of the Franklin Institute and to create a museum of history of the city. The building was drawn by John Haviland and was built in 1824-26 for the Franklin Institute, itself founded in 1823 by Samuel Vaughn Merrick. Today, Atwater Kent Museum shelters more: 80000 objects, of which: 10000 elements coming from the collections of the Historical Society off Pennsylvania.
See too
External bond
- official Web site
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