Eastern State Penitentiary

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Eastern State’s winter series spotlights hope in hard places

Halloween Nights returns Sept. 19 at Eastern State Penitentiary with new attractions

ESP - Halloween Nights 2025

Parks on Tap and Record Store Day: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide

Eastern State Penitentiary to offer sports pop-up with themed talks, wiffle ball

Eastern State Penitentiary

This fall at Eastern State Penitentiary's Halloween Nights, brave souls will be given a puzzle to solve

Halloween Nights ESP

Before Eastern State Penitentiary closed, music by the prison's inmate band delighted radio audiences

Eastern State Penitentiary music

Malaysian food, wine and a prison baseball pop-up: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide Kampar

An ice festival and Center City Restaurant Week: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide ice festival

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Eastern State Penitentiary's new series intends to spark dialogue about incarceration and civil rights

Eastern State social justice

Here's where to donate toys for Philadelphia kids this holiday season

2023 holiday toy drives

Halloween Nights and spooky mini golf: Your weekend guide to things to do

Halloween Nights weekend events

WXPN concerts and an Indian festival: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide Krishna Fest

Get spooked and then calm down with a drink at Eastern State Penitentiary this fall

Halloween Eastern State

Life after prison proves to be frustrating, even for those only pretending they're trying to get back on their feet

Eastern State reentry simulation

Eastern State Penitentiary workers vote to unionize over safety concerns, pay

Eastern State Penitentiary Union

Donate toys to children with incarcerated parents this holiday season at Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary Toy Drive

Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary to return with three new attractions

Halloween Nights Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary to host immersive play about U.S. prison system

Eastern State Penitentiary The Box End of Isolation tour

Where to celebrate Halloween in Philadelphia this year

Nightmare Before Tinsel

Halloween Nights replaces Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary

Halloween Nights

Fairmount Vintage Flea Market setting up at Eastern State Penitentiary this September

Flea market Eastern State Penitentiary

Shop furniture, art, jewelry at flea market outside Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Flea Market

Eastern State Penitentiary night tours, beer garden coming this summer

Eastern State Night Tours Summer

Eastern State Penitentiary reopening with expanded tour offerings

eastern state penitentiary reopening

Philly museums begin reopening after city eases COVID-19 restrictions

Philly museums reopening COVID-19

Five Museums in Philly announce 6-week closure amid pandemic surge

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Eastern State Penitentiary offering nighttime tours this fall

Eastern State Night Tours

Eastern State Penitentiary to reopen with COVID-19 health and safety protocols

Eastern State Penitentiary

Philly museums announce reopening plans with health, safety protocols

Philly museums reopening

Terror Behind the Walls suspended for 2020 as Eastern State Penitentiary grapples with COVID-19 impact

eastern state layoffs cancel

Peaceful demonstrations continue across Philadelphia on Sunday in wake of George Floyd’s death

Philadelphia George Floyd protests

No curfew or road closures in place for Sunday as peaceful protests expected to continue across Philly

Philadelphia curfew road closures

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Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in Philadelphia

MLK on Lancaster Avenue

'Terror Behind the Walls' at Eastern State Penitentiary adds new interactive experiences for 2019

Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary adds new LGBTQ history stop to audio tour

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Eastern State Penitentiary

PHOTOS: This guy just climbed Eastern State Penitentiary

Carroll - Artist Alexander Rosenberg Climbing Eastern State Penitentiary

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MLK Day 2019: Celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at these 5 places

MLK on Lancaster Avenue

Time to make weekend plans with our guide to what's going on in Philly

Oktoberfest South Street

'Terror Behind the Walls' revamps its haunted hospital attraction for 2018

Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary

Students can visit Philly's museums for free during CollegeFest

Carroll - Philadelphia Museum of Art

There's still time to audition for 'Terror Behind the Walls' at Eastern State Penitentiary

Carroll - Terror Behind the Walls Makeup

Where to find Bastille Day events and specials around Philly

Bastille Day

Wands & Whiskey at Eastern State Penitentiary to benefit PAWS

Carroll - Dog near Rittenhouse Square

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