In the heart of London, just steps from famed Trafalgar Square, is Benjamin Franklin House, the world's only remaining Franklin home. For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Dr Benjamin Franklin - scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor, Founding Father of the United States and more - lived behind its doors.
Benjamin Franklin House, built circa 1730, is now open to the public as a dynamic museum and educational facility.
The Historical Experience presents the excitement and uncertainty of Franklin's London years using rooms where so much took place as staging for a drama which seamlessly integrates live performance, cutting edge lighting, sound and projection technology.
School visitors explore the Student Science Centre featuring hands-on experimentation with Franklin's London scientific discoveries, juxtaposing past and present knowledge.
The top floor Robert H. Smith Scholarship Centre is a focal point in Europe for Franklin and Franklin-related study, featuring a full set of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, as catalogued by Yale University, and an active symposia programme.
While lodging at 36 Craven Street, Franklin's main occupation was mediating unrest between Britain and America, but he also served as Deputy Postmaster for the Colonies; pursued his love of science (exploring bifocal spectacles, the energy-saving Franklin stove); explored health (innoculation, air baths, cures for the common cold); music (inventing the delightful glass armonica for which Mozart, Bach and Beethoven composed) and letters (articles, epitaphs, and his witty Craven Street Gazette), all while forging a hearty social life and close friendships with leading figures of the day.
All Live Events
39 Steps | A Bowl Of Cherries | A Tale of Two Cities | Abigail's Party | Absent Friends | Akram Khan - Desh | All New People | Backbeat | Being Shakespeare | Big Pants & Botox | Billy Elliot | Blood Brothers | Chicago | Classic Lunch Cruise | Crazy For You | Dreamboats and Petticoats | English National Ballet: My First Sleeping Beauty | Evening Dinner Cruise | GATZ | Ghost | Hay Fever | Horrible Histories | Importance of Being Earnest, The | Jackie Mason - Fearless | Jersey Boys | Julius Caesar | Ladykillers | Legally Blonde | Les Miserables | Lion King | London Dungeon | London Eye | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Madame Tussauds | Madness Of George III | Mamma Mia! | Mamma Mia! | Master Class | Matilda The Musical | Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! | Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words | Midnight Tango | Mousetrap | Much Ado About Nothing | Naked Boys Singing | Noises Off | Noises Off | One Man, Two Guvnors | Pajama Men: In The Middle Of No One | Pet Shop Boys & Javier De Frutos - The Most Incredible Thing | Phantom of The Opera | Pippin | Pitmen Painters | Proud Cabaret | Rambert Dance Company: Mixed Bill | Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete World Of Sports(Abridged) | Rock Of Ages | Sex With A Stranger | Shrek The Musical | Singin' In The Rain | South Downs/The Browning Version | Stomp | Sweeney Todd | That Thing Friday Night | The Awkward Squad | The Duchess of Malfi | The Fitzrovia Radio Hour | The Houdini Experience | The Leisure Society | The Sunshine Boys | Three Days in May | Thriller Live | Tiger Who Came to Tea | Top Hat | UMOJA: The Spirit Of Togetherness | Wah! Wah! Girls | War Horse | We Will Rock You | Wicked | Wizard of Oz | Woman In Black
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