First Friday Museum Opening in Old City October 3, 2008

CHF, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, (215) 925-2222. New CHF Museum and Conference Center, featuring permanent and changing exhibitions about the impact of chemistry on our lives, to open in historic Old City bank building. First Friday opening reception and celebration October 3, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Come see chemistry as you’ve never thought of it before—from cosmetics to computers—in the permanent collection, Making Modernity, and then catch artistic depictions of ten molecules that changed the 20th century in the first changing installation, Molecules that Matter. For more information: http://www.chemheritage.org. Regular museum hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Free admission.

Official Website: http://www.chemheritage.org/exhibits/grand-opening.html