Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/07/2026
All Day
Location
Please Touch Museum
Categories
Kids will enjoy hands-on workshops at Black History Celebration, honoring notable change-makers during Black History Month at the Please Touch Museum. Check out art and STEM workshops, performances by Living Arts Dance Studio and New Freedom Theatre, Pennsylvania’s oldest Black American theater.
Learn, through play, about accomplished African Americans who have shown courage, confidence and creativity. Be amazed at Science Workshops, led by Nafees Norris, a cell culture scientist-educator and the first African-American to graduate with a degree in Biopharmaceutical Process Engineering. See photos and biographies of inspiring Philadelphians Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott, Quinta Brunson, Mo’Ne Davis, and others featured on the museum’s “Black History Walk.”
Adults and children, ages 1 and older: $22 per person ($20 weekdays during February); 9 a.m. EST to 4:30 p.m. EST. Please Touch Museum, 4231 Avenue of the Republic. Email: info@pleasetouchmuseum.org, 215-581-3181 or https://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/learn/black-history-month/