The Drawing Room Opening June 6 – Reception and Special Event RSVP by May 27 at museum@amphilsoc.org On June 6, 2013, the APS Museum launches the “Drawing Room,” in conjunction with the museum’s new show Through the Looking Lens. Visitors can go back in time and step into the shoes of Cornelius Varley, the talented artist, scientist, and instrument makerread more

Association for Creative Zoology Beauvais Lyons September 10-12 and 16-18, 2010 Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Dialogues with Darwin The Association for Creative Zoology was artist Beauvais Lyons’s response to the continuing controversy over Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. First brought to life in 2007, The Association for Creative Zoology was performed in the APS’s Jefferson Gardenread more

The Voyage of the Beetle Brett Keyser, The Voyage of the Beetle, 2009 October 12-14, 19-23, and 28, 2012 Commissioned by the APS Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Dialogues with Darwin In the short, guerrilla theater piece The Voyage of the Beetle, Brett Keyser set the famous last paragraph from On the Origin of Species to music and sangread more

Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man Written by Glen Berger & Brett Keyser Performed by Brett Keyser, October 16-18 and 23-25, 2009 Commissioned by the APS Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Dialogues with Darwin Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man was a swashbuckling, one-man tour de farce that deftly skewered everything you think you know about Darwin. It was a uniqueread more

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Reception & Special Event Thursday, June 6, 5:30 – 7:30 PM THE DRAWING ROOM and THROUGH THE LOOKING LENS               Left: Cornelius Varley, Chara Vulgaris with one globule open (male reproductive part), 1842, APS Right: Cornelius Varley, Varley’s Patent Graphic Telescope and drawing-table stand, APS Down the Rabbit Hole with Cornelius Varley When Lewis Carroll sent Alice down the rabbitread more

Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowships For information about the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society, please go to http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/curatorialfellowship. The application deadline is January 9, 2012; notification is in early April.

Secret Cinema at the APS Museum Join us on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 6:00p.m. for IT’S ABOUT TIME: Short films from the Secret Cinema Archive inspired by the APS Museum’s current exhibition Tempus Fugit: Time Flies This will be a feature-length program of rare short films about various aspects of time, all shown in 16mm film. A few highlightsread more

OF ELEPHANTS & ROSES: French Natural History, 1790-1830 You can download selected digital preprints here from the upcoming book Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790-1830. Please scroll down for the PDFs. Due to copyright restrictions, these preprints are not illustrated. They are for personal, non-commercial, or educational use only and may not be reproduced. The preprints are labeledread more

These performances took place September 5 – December 8, 2012. Nichole Canuso Dance Company – Fall 2012 LAST PERFORMANCE COMING UP ON DECEMBER 8, 2012 at 3:30 PM Join us for the final performance on December 8, which will include: • A post-performance reception (Food! Wine! Spiked Hot Cider!) • Discussion with choreographer/dancer Nichole Canuso, dancer John Luna, and composerread more