The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial with its short multimedia show in the rotunda of the Franklin Institute is free to the public. There are more than 14 Ben Franklin replicas standing or ...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, which was founded with the goal of publishing the definitive edition of Franklin’s writings, will celebrate the birthday of its namesake with an open house on ...

THREE days of stately ceremonies, including the unveiling of a heroic white marble statue of Benjamin Franklin, lectures on pure and applied science, a two million dollar philatelic exhibition ...

Benjamin Franklin’s mother and father, Abiah and Josiah Franklin, settled in Boston in the late 17th Century. Josiah had moved from Ecton, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683.

Fels’ contribution is one of a number to the Benjamin Franklin Memorial and the Franklin Institute Museum to be erected at a cost of $5,000,000. This planetarium is to be a miniature cosmos.