Getting ready forthe National Constitution Center.
The museum of the U.S. Constitution on Independence Mall, with Sensory-Friendly Days (next: Sunday, Nov 22 2026 and Sunday, Dec 20 2026) when admission is free from 9 to 10 am, and noise-canceling headphones and calm down items you can reserve ahead.
Sensory supports. Sensory-Friendly Days, headphones to reserve.
Hours
Wednesday to Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. Closes at 3 pm on Sunday, Nov 15 2026. Closed Wednesday, Nov 25 2026, Thanksgiving Day, and Friday, Dec 18 2026. Winter Break: closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Saturday, Dec 26 2026, 10 am to 6:30 pm; Sunday, Dec 27 2026, 10 am to 5 pm; closed Monday, Dec 28 and Tuesday, Dec 29 2026; Wednesday, Dec 30 2026, 10 am to 5 pm; New Year's Eve, 10 am to 3 pm; closed New Year's Day. Standard hours resume Saturday, Jan 2 2027.
525 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (Independence Mall; parking garage entrance on Race Street between 5th and 6th Streets)
“Sensory tools, including noise-canceling headphones and calm down items, are available for use during visits at the Center.”
“Visitors with sensory-processing challenges can experience the museum in a secure and comfortable environment that includes modified programming and emotionally safe spaces with sensory objects, comfortable seating, and cool blue lighting.”
“Admission to the Center is free from 9-10 a.m. during Sensory-Friendly Days.”
“Color-coded lanyards help let our staff know how a visitor prefers to interact.”
To reserve the headphones and calm down items, contact Kristina Marinello, senior director of museum experience, at 215-409-6678 or kmarinello@constitutioncenter.org. To tell the Center about any needs in your group when you make your reservation, call 215-409-6700 or email visitorcomments@constitutioncenter.org.
Sensory-Friendly Days are for visitors with sensory-processing challenges and their families, with modified programming, specialized staff training and emotionally safe spaces. The Center partners with Art-Reach, which has provided inclusion and accessibility trainings to museum staff.
Freedom Rising, a 17-minute multimedia theater-in-the-round performance narrated by a live actor, comes with a timed ticket in general admission and runs every 30 minutes until an hour before the museum closes. Signers' Hall has 42 life-size bronze statues of the Founding Fathers.
All bags are screened on arrival, the museum will not store backpacks, and food and drink are not permitted in any exhibit or theater area (from its pre-visit guide for school and other groups).
Admission: adults $24.95 on-site or $19.95 online; seniors 65 and older, U.S. military veterans, college students with ID and youth 6 to 18, $19.95 on-site or $14.95 online; children 0 to 5 and active and retired U.S. military, free. Groups of 15 or more: 215.409.6800 or groupsales@constitutioncenter.org.
Free and reduced admission: $2 through Art-Reach's ACCESS Admission Program, for people receiving public assistance for food or medical benefits; $2 off regular adult admission with a valid SEPTA TrailPass, TransPass, One Day Independence Pass or SEPTA Employee ID, in person at the admissions desk; Philadelphia high school students free through STAMP; a Library Membership Museum Pass, checked out at a library that holds one, admits two adults and up to four youths under 18 free. Admission is always free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day and Constitution Day, on Veterans Day for U.S. military veterans, and during Family Fun Nights and Trivia Nights.
Personal Care Attendants of visitors with disabilities are free for all ticketed events, programs and performances the visitor attends. If you buy tickets ahead, call 215-409-6700 to ask for the attendant's complimentary ticket.
Parking: the Center's garage (enter from Race Street between 5th and 6th Streets) is open every day, 8 am to 5 pm, with designated spaces for visitors with disabilities (fees apply). It closes at 5 pm daily, but you can reach your car after hours through a callbox, and it may stay open later for evening programs. Rates: up to one hour $15, up to two hours $25, up to 24 hours $30; early bird $15 (enter 6 to 9 am, Monday to Friday only). The Independence Visitor Center garage enters from 6th Street between Arch and Market Streets.
Transit: SEPTA Market-Frankford Line to 5th Street Station, or Route 38, 44 or 48 buses; PATCO to 8th Street Station; the Phlash stops at 6th and Market Streets.
Wheelchairs are free, first come, first served, at the Box Office. Accessible restrooms are on the first floor behind the main staircase and on the second floor in the F.M. Kirby Auditorium lobby; single, family and gender-neutral restrooms are on the first floor. Service animals are welcome; pets are not allowed.
Non-flash photos and video are allowed in the exhibit galleries except of artifacts marked on their labels, and photos and video of any kind are allowed in Signers' Hall.
Call
215-409-6678Kristina Marinello: reserve headphones and calm down items215-409-6700Reservations, needs in your group, Personal Care Attendant tickets215.409.6600Main number
