Things to Do in Philadelphia Over Rendezvous Week

No matter if you want to grab an authentic Philly cheesesteak, tour the Independence Hall, or just take a stroll through the Amble Gardens, Visit Philadelphia can help you find many fun things to do!

Breweries, etc:

• Yards Brewing, Love City Brewing, Triple Bottom Brewing, and Victory are great. Victory is on the parkway and has a cool roof top deck - probably within walking distance if folks are staying downtown.
• Philly's beloved roving beer garden, Parks on Tap,brings brews and bites to urban parks and green spaces across Philadelphia, with a new neighborhood to visit each week. Expect drafts from Mainstay Independent Brewing, Conshohocken Brewing, 2SP Brewing and more, as well as cocktails, burgers, cheesesteaks and snacks. During EER, it will be at:
  MCMICHAEL PARK
  WEDNESDAY, JULY 10- SUNDAY, JULY 14
  WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY | 4 - 10PM
  SATURDAY- SUNDAY | 12- 10PM
  3201 Midvale Ave
  Philadelphia, PA  19129
• Independence Beer Garden is located right by the liberty bell area / historical sites: https://www.phlbeergarden.com/ 
•  Eastern State Penitentiary does a "Summer nights" event with evening tours & a beer garden: https://www.easternstate.org/summernights 

Summer Parks/Festivals that week:

• Spruce Street Harbor Park reopens this season with the same floating hammocks, technicolor lights, tasty grub and live music you know and love — but this year introduces some fancy new additions. Brand-new for 2024: (1) The Lazy Hammock covered bar and performance stage, featuring a 20-foot stage and 16-foot video wall ripe for movie nights and watch parties. (2) The Blue Anchor, showcasing local beer, handcrafted cocktails and new food offerings (TBA), and (3) The Trading Post, a bodega on the water with locally made ice cream pints, snacks, and merch from Philly artists and vendors. Where: Spruce Street Harbor Park, 301 S. Christopher Columbus Boulevard
• Summer brings rollerskating to Dilworth Park's Rothman Orthopaedics Roller Rink in the heart of Center City on the west side of City Hall. Grab an advanced ticket for hour-long skating sessions on the retro-inspired checkerboard rink (available afternoons and evenings seven days a week). When you're done, enjoy eats and drinks at the adjacent Air Grille Garden and Dilworth Park Café for roller rink-inspired snacks and cocktails. Worked up a sweat? Splash through the park's dancing ground-embedded fountains. Where: Dilworth Park, 1 S. 15th Street
• Center City SIPS: No summertime sadness here: The dog days mark the start of Philly's favorite Wednesday night party. Center City District SIPS features happy hour deals at participating restaurants and bars all summer long, with $7 tequila cocktails, $6 wine, $5 beer and half-priced apps at establishments like Double Knot and the Air Grille Garden at Dilworth Park. This year, you can also look forward to 15% off dinner at select participating restaurants. 
• Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival: Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with a glowing, 200-foot-long serpent and dozens of other handcrafted creations. Explore Franklin Square under the light of massive, intricate lanterns depicting fantastical creatures, familiar critters and more. As you roam, learn and buy from expert artisans, take in cultural performances, and indulge in classic Asian cuisine and American comfort food. The park's regular attractions remain open alongside the installations, so feel free to hop on the Parx Liberty Carousel, play a round of mini-golf (both at discounted rates), or catch a fountain show before you go. Where: Franklin Square, 200 N. 6th Street

Museum events:

• The Franklin Institute:  The Art of the Brick returns to  for the first time in nearly a decade with its display of over 100 pieces of art all made completely of LEGO — from recreations of masterworks like Van Gogh's Starry Night and da Vinci's Mona Lisa to original LEGO sculptures including a 20-foot-long T. rex skeleton. Every piece in the hugely impressive display is the handiwork of contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya, the first ever to create an exhibition of LEGO art. Where: The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th Street
• Philadelphia Museum of Art: The first Sunday of the month and every Friday night, from 5 to 8:45 p.m., you can pay what you wish to enter — it must be at least $0.01. Coming to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for this spring and summer only, the new Mary Cassatt at Work exhibition celebrates the Philadelphia-raised impressionist artist via 130 prints, paintings and pastels that explore gender, labor and feminine agency. Also included: new findings about the advanced processes and materials the painter — who began studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at age 15 — used in the early 20th century. This is the first major showing of Cassatt's life's work in over 25 years. Where: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway