New Years Day in Philly

Wondering what to do in Philly on New Year's Day? Here's some ideas for you!

• 111th Annual Mummer’s Parade
• www.mummers.com
• Parade route begins at 10 a.m. from Broad and Washington Streets in Philadelphia and heading north up Broad St. towards City Hall.
• Tickets are available for the two judged portions of the parade. Tickets for the Grand Stand performance can be purchased that the Fairmount Park Welcome Center or the Independence Visitors Center. Tickets to both Fancy brigade performances can be purchased at www.comcasttix.com.
• You can also watch for free at a number of the intersections of Broad St. including:
• At City Hall
• Broad and Sansom
• Broad and Pine
• Broad and Washington
• Broad and Shunk
• Broad and Wolf
• 15th and Market
• The parade begins at 10 a.m. is expected to end sometime before 7 p.m. There will be plenty of bathrooms and vendors along the parade route to meet the needs of the guests.
• It is highly recommended that guests take public transit to the parade route and leave their cars at home.
• You can also watch it at home on MY PHL17 beginning with pre-parade coverage at 9 a.m.
• Kimmel Center Free News Year’s Day Celebration
• www.kimmelcenter.org
• The Kimmel Center is ringing in the New Year with a free family friendly celebration from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Kimmel Center is along the parade route for the Mummers, so swing in and warm up!
• There will be reggae, jazz and puppeteers performing throughout the day. There will also be children’s crafts and face painting.
• Longwood Gardens
• www.longwoodgardens.org
• Longwood Gardens continues “A Longwood Christmas” through Jan. 9, boasting half a million lights, trees that soar over 75 feet, dancing fountains and a 4.5-acre heated indoor Conservatory, make the holiday wonder for you and your family last a little longer this year.
• There are also special organ concerts and sing-alongs throughout the day that bring the magic to life.
• Please Touch Museum
• www.pleasetouchmuseum.org
• The Please Touch Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on New Year’s Day and a great place to take children. Currently they are running their Enchanted Colonial Village display, through Jan. 2.
• The Franklin Institute
• www2.fi.edu
• It’s closing weekend for The Franklin Institute’s Cleopatra Exhibit, closing Jan. 2. More importantly, the museum is open on Jan. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the exhibit will have extended hours on Jan. 1 until 8:30 p.m., with the last entrance at 7 p.m.
• Cleopatra is an exhibit filled with never before seen artifacts from Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra’s tomb.
• This is a DO NOT MISS exhibit.