Saturday, September 25, 2010 - College Day on the Parkway - Free Admission to All Benjamin Franklin Parkway Museums, With Valid College ID

The Museums are offering free admission from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Also, a free shuttle bus will be traveling in a loop, between all of the institutions listed below, from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. (We don't know why the buses stop at 4:00 PM, and not 5:00 PM.)

Of course, you can also make use of the inexpensive Phlash Trolley, which costs only $2.00 per ride, or $5.00 for an all-day pass.

Participating Institutions

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rodin Museum, the Franklin Institute, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Eastern State Penitentiary (Note: Eastern State Pen is not located on the Parkway, but is participating.)

The Museums That Give the Parkway Museums District Its Name

The Academy of Natural Sciences

The Franklin Institute

Rodin Museum

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Traveling to the Parkway Museums District

Taking the Purple Phlash Trolley - May 1 to October 31

Its service runs in a loop from Philadelphia City Hall at Broad and Market Streets, up to 26th Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway, the location of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rocky Steps and Rocky Statue. Although it is not located in the Parkway Museums District, it is only a short walk from the Art Museum to the Gothic turrets of Eastern State Penitentiary, an early 19th-century building which is open for tours, resembling a medieval castle.

A Complete List of Points of Interest, Within the Parkway Museums District

• Academy of Natural Sciences
  
• Franklin Institute
  
• Logan Circle and Swann Memorial Fountain
  
• Rodin Museum
  
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
• The Rocky Steps, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
• The Rocky Statue, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
• The Phlash Trolley - May 1 to October 31
  
• SEPTA Regional Rail - Suburban Station
  

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