Dynamo! Traveling Exhibition
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What does it take to make a country? Sometimes it begins with a lump of coal, a canal, or an immigrant with a bold idea.
This exhibition explores how the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor became one of the nation’s most inventive regions—where geography, grit, and ingenuity converged to power industries that built America. Iron, steel, and cement flowed from this corridor, but so did transformative ideas in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. The same innovative spirit that forged factories also shaped how we heal, learn, create, and imagine.
These are the dynamos.
Dynamo! celebrates the inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who turned raw materials into industry, ideas into movements, and local creativity into national impact. Through five themed kiosks—Industry, Consumption, Innovation, Health, and the Arts—discover how the people of the Corridor powered progress and continue to inspire new generations to invent, create, and change the world.
Traveling Exhibit Schedule
- June 1–12 at the Friedman Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community Alliance of NEPA (613 S. J. Strauss Ln., Kingston, PA 18704).
- June 12–19 at the Shickshinny Historical Society,(14 Main St., Shickshinny, PA 18655)
- June 20–30 (potentially extended through July 6) — Eckley Miners’ Village, (2 Main St, Weatherly, PA 18255-5030)
- July 11 (Easton Heritage Day) — Easton Center Square, (Bank Street Annex, Easton, PA)
- August 20–September 4 — Lehigh Gap Nature Center, (8844 Paint Mill Rd, Slatington, PA 18080)
- October 4–17 — Delaware Valley University, (700 E Butler Ave, Doylestown, PA 18901)
This program is funded in part by the Gaming Tax Grant Program through the County of Northampton Department of Community and Economic Development.
This exhibition is supported by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a state agency funded by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with additional support from the National Park Service and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Special thanks to our partners and supporters: Lehigh Valley 250, Lehigh Valley Public Media, the County of Northampton, Northampton Community College, The Dexter F. and Dorothy H. Baker Foundation, Nacci Printing and Crayola.
For more information and updates on tour dates and locations, visit canals.org or follow the National Canal Museum on social media. To inquire about hosting the traveling exhibition at your business or organization, contact Lianne Greco, DLNHC Director of Museum and Archives, at 267-680-9185 or museum@nulldelawareandlehigh.org.
