Women in Chemistry Tour

Join our museum’s Gallery Guides for a “drop-in” tour highlighting the central role of women in shaping chemistry and the material sciences throughout history.
 
Our Women in Chemistry Tour profiles women chemists from antiquity to the present, sharing stories of innovation, resistance, and change.
 
On this tour, you can expect to:
 

• learn about the legendary founding women of alchemy
• explore the connections between domesticity and distillation
• see how wartime changed the laboratory
   

You’ll also meet pioneering chemists and chemistry educators, from 17th-century French alchemist Marie Meurdrac to Marie Maynard Daly, the first Black woman in America to receive a PhD in chemistry, and Rosalind Franklin, whose work in X-ray crystallography led to the discovery of DNA’s structure. 
 
Drop-in tours are free and no reservations are necessary.