Dynamo! Traveling Exhibition
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 Information
The exhibition will be on view from June 1–June 12 at the Friedman Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community Alliance of NEPA (613 S J Strauss Ln, Kingston, PA 18704), before traveling to the Shickshinny Historical Society (14 Main St, Shickshinny, PA 18655), where it will be on display from June 12–June 19.
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.
