Event – Detail

Join us for the opening of Lost Creeks of Philadelphia: Burying the Streams, Building the City. Using maps and plans, drawings and paintings, and old and modern photographs, this new exhibition reveals why and how hundreds of miles of the Philadelphia’s surface streams were channeled into underground sewers between the 1760s and the 1960s and shows how this work still affects the city today.

The exhibition will be on display through May 16, 2026.

Interested in learning more? Register for the 6PM lecture by co-curator of the exhibition, Adam Levine.