November Family Fun Night: Storytelling Tour of 'Pennsylvania's Founding'

The National Constitution Center is hosting a Family Fun Night on Saturday, November 28, from 5 to 8 PM. It's an after-hours museum exploration built for families, and the main draw is a storytelling tour of the exhibit Pennsylvania's Founding: How a City and a Colony Shaped America's Civic DNA. The tour is flanked by story time and artifact chats, so it's less of a formal lecture and more of a night of hanging out in the galleries with kids in tow.

The evening is part of the Center's Native American Heritage Month programming, a series of events highlighting the history of American Indians, tribal governments, and their relationship to the U.S. Constitution and American democracy. That theme runs right through the exhibit itself. Pennsylvania's Founding looks at the early days of the Keystone State, and among the pieces on display is a Lenape wampum belt said to have been given to William Penn. You'll also see the 1683 plan of Philadelphia and a 1696 Quaker protest against slavery.

Beyond the exhibit, there are a few specific artifacts the Center is highlighting for the month. One is a wampum belt said to date to the 1682 Treaty of Shackamaxon, and another is a pair of moccasins crafted by a Creek or Seminole artisan. Between the tour, the story time, and the artifact chats, you'll get a chance to see these things up close rather than just walking past them.

Registration opens November 1, and the night runs from 5 to 8 PM on Saturday, November 28, at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch Street in Philadelphia.