Located underground beneath Franklin Court, the site of Franklin’s former house, and opened in 2013, this is the only museum in the United States dedicated to a full exploration of Benjamin Franklin. Our first task was to make the museum arrival point more immediately visible; and link the upstairs and downstairs within a new entrance pavilion. In the museum, we told Franklin’s story through a series of rooms that correspond to the rooms of the (now missing) house above ... Franklin’s library is presented as an immersive installation that touches on his legacy as a scientist, correspondent, inventor, book collector, politician, and writer of the most widely read biography in the world.
Located underground beneath Franklin Court, the site of Franklin’s former house, and opened in 2013, this is the only museum in the United States dedicated to a full exploration of Benjamin Franklin. Our first task was to make the museum arrival point more immediately visible; and link the upstairs and downstairs within a new entrance pavilion. In the museum, we told Franklin’s story through a series of rooms that correspond to the rooms of the (now missing) house above ... Franklin’s library is presented as an immersive installation that touches on his legacy as a scientist, correspondent, inventor, book collector, politician, and writer of the most widely read biography in the world.