🎉 Get ready to take a delicious trip down memory lane, because Curious Histories Fest is BACK!
On Saturday, June 14, the Science History Institute's free annual celebration of science, history, exploration, and experimentation returns for a third year!
Curious Histories Fest highlights a new theme each year. Inspired by our current exhibition, Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray, this year’s “What’s for Lunch?” theme explores the history of food science and efforts to feed children in U.S. schools.
This free, daylong event features hands-on activities and family-friendly fun, as well as exciting talks, tours, and highlights from our special collections. Come enjoy some free ice cream, then visit our museum for:
👃 Tastes and smells with the Society of Flavor Chemists and Monell Chemical Senses Center
🔊🎶 Fun activities and live music by Vinyl Tap 215 founder DJ DuiJi Mshinda in our “recess yard”
💭 Favorite school lunch memory sharing with our Distillations podcast team
🥒 Pickle tastings with Fishtown Pickle Project
🚰 Tap water education and tasting with the Philadelphia Water Department’s Philly Water Bar
🌱 Introduction to sustainable composting with Bennett Compost
🍪 Learn about Rebel Ventures, a group of student entrepreneurs based in West Philly who create healthy food for school kids
🫙 Live pickling demonstration by Spotted Horse Provisions and tastings of their jams, shrubs, and pickled veggies
🫘 Plant-based Peruvian food tastings with La Llamita Vegana
🆒 Interactive pop-up displays from our special collections, from vintage coolers to Saran Wrap
🎲 Food-themed board games
Other school lunch-inspired food tastings including ice cream!
🎉 Plus, the first 100 visitors will receive a free Lunchtime lunchbox!
Curious Histories Fest has FREE fun for everyone! No reservation needed. Visit sciencehistory.org/fest to learn more!
Curious Histories Fest is open to all ages. Admission, programs, food, and drink are all FREE. No reservations are necessary.
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