Philly Links

Left - "The Thinker", at the Rodin Museum on the Ben Franklin Parkway, not far from Boathouse Row.  The Rodin Museum is the largest collection of Rodin sculpture outside of Paris and admission is free!

Libraries and Museums

• Parkway Museums District - contains a great discount coupon for 6 museums, as well as a printable brochure
• The Academy of Natural Sciences
• Calderwood Gallery - Calderwood Gallery specializes in French Art Deco furniture, French Art Nouveau furniture, fine 20th Century objects, vintage photography and Glamour Age Hollywood photography. Calderwood's inventory is the most extensive anywhere - more than 800 pieces of furniture - by the designers whose names are the very hallmarks of high-style furniture from the first half of the 20th Century.
• Calderwood 2
• Eastern State Penitentiary
• Edgar Allen Poe National Historical Site
• The Franklin Institute
• Free Library of Philadelphia
• Independence National Historical Park
• Independence Seaport Museum
• Philadelphia Museum of Art - here's an idea: take your team or children to the Art Museum for a few hours between races. It's nearby, inexpensive, relaxing and air-conditioned!
• Please Touch Museum - Designed for children seven years old and younger, Please Touch Museum is one of the nation's outstanding interactive educational facilities just for kids.

Schuylkill River

Destination Schuylkill River celebrates life along the River in East Falls and Manayunk. What is there to do? How can you get involved? What’s planned for this vibrant piece of Philadelphia history and culture?

Philly H2O - The History of Philadelphia's Watersheds and Sewers, an amazing collection of documents, maps, images, and other material on the Schuylkill and Delaware River and other local watersheds. Thanks to John Muff for the link.

• Schuylkill River Development Council - These people are doing good things for Philadelphia rowing
• Schuylkill River Heritage Corridor
• The Schuylkill River
• Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works, 1800-1860 - The Fairmount Dam, built to divert the flow of the river for the Waterworks, created the basin on which we row. Without the Waterworks there would be no dam, and without the dam there would be no rowing on the Schuylkill. This site is a great historical sketch of the Waterworks. Thanks to Greg Doyle, of Malta Boat Club, for providing the link.
• The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
• American Rivers
• EPA's Surf Your Watershed

Miscellaneous

• Phila.gov
• DIGESTezine, Philadelphia, America's most haunted city
• Boathouse Row artwork
• Vickie M. Feldman Photography - Philadelphia area photos

Tourism

• Click here for more Philadelphia tourism related links

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