Featured Project:
Ben Franklin 300

Final Products:
Ben Franklin 300

  • Exhibition: "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World"  Learn more
  • Exhibition Catalogue (Yale University Press, 2005)  View online
  • Website: BenFranklin300.org  Visit website
  • Franklin's Interactive Lifetime (dynamic online timeline)  View online
  • Online Exhibition (simple, static version)  View online
  • The Frankliniana Database (online record of life portraits of Franklin and objects owned by him)  View online
  • K-12 Education Materials  View online
  • American Library Association traveling exhibition  Learn more
  • Minnesota Historical Society traveling exhibition  Learn more
If Franklin were to mount a museum exhibition about himself, it might very well resemble -- in its variety, intelligence and pleasures -- "Benjamin Franklin in Search of a Better World." 
-- Edward Rothstein, The New York Times
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A selection of Franklin-related artifacts owned by several Philadelphia institutions were conserved through Save America's Treasures for the Ben Franklin 300 exhibition.  Lee Price (of the Conservation Center) chronicled the project in his blog: Tour America's Treasures.
Philadelphia (and beyond)

As executive director (Ros Remer) and associate director/chief curator (Page Talbott) for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, we oversaw all aspects of this multifaceted project, including the Philadelphia consortium, federal commission, public programming, education, online experiences, and the centerpiece traveling exhibition “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World,” which opened in Philadelphia and traveled to five U.S. venues and Paris.
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