Chemical Heritage Foundation
Instruments, apparatus and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences
Category Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Repositories of Knowledge
While the Chemical Heritage Foundation, may not immediately sound like a fascinating place to a non-chemist, within these library and museum walls lay some fascinating books, instruments and some rather dark histories.
Though most people associate chemistry with a fifties lab-coated scientist, it has a much longer and fascinating history, one that includes the strange activities of medieval alchemists. Though alchemy or al-kimia meaning "the art of transformation," became chemistry in the 1700s when Robert Boyle published "The Skeptical Chymist" emphasizing the scientific method, the focus on understanding matter and how it changes is still very much at the heart of chemistry.
Among the Chemical Heritage Foundation amazing collections a fantastic collection of antique chemistry sets, glassware, publications ranging from the social impact of nanotechnology to alchemy’s influence on modern science, and a collection of significant chemistry instruments. Exhibits include Transmutations: Alchemy in Art, Making Modernity, and sLowlife about plant life, while events range from carnivorous plant feeding to “Biblical Medicine in Renaissance Italy.”
Despite having one of the best chemistry related collections in the world, they still have items that they are searching for, so if you happen to have a Bendix Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, AA 1 Autoanalyzer, or RCA Electron Microscope Model EMB laying around, bring them by, the Chemical Heritage Foundation would be very happy to see them.
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- Hours Mon-Fri: 10-4 (Museum Hours)
- Website Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Address 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19106, United States
- Cost Free and open to the public
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