Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World
Exhibition

This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition looks at the remarkable life and achievements of one of America’s most beloved personalities. Besides serving his country as a skillful diplomat and negotiator, Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, humorist and philanthropist whose wisdom and wit continue to inspire and entertain us more than three hundred years after his birth. Franklin was dedicated to making the world a better place and himself a better person.  His is the quintessential American success story. For more information, please contact the Old Jail Museum Complex.

June 4–July 9, 2015
Old Jail Museum Complex
5th & Elm
Palo Pinto, TX 76584

Map

Map of event location
Benjamin West, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, ca. 1816. Philadelphia Museum of Art.