Get to know Philadelphia on a fun and interactive scavenger hunt through the city’s Museum District. This smartphone-based activity combines the scavenger hunt game with an informative historical and architectural tour, sending you to more than a dozen landmarks and museums to solve puzzles and perform challenges. The app allows you to explore at your own pace, starting and pausing the game whenever you want.

• Explore Philadelphia on a playful and interactive scavenger hunt
• Explore at your own pace, on your own schedule
• A fun activity for groups of up to 6 people
• Scavenger hunt provides around 2-5 hours of entertainment

What To Expect

Are you looking for things to do in Philadelphia? You’ll find a few of our scavenger hunts and self-guided walking tours in Philadelphia.

Our first Tourist Scavenger Hunt here launched as an Explorer hunt in Philadelphia’s museum district in 2017. An alternate, regular (shorter) version followed in 2019. Both were revisited and greatly modified in 2023.

A Tourist Scavenger Hunts is a 2-3 hour self-guided walking tour with instructions through our mobile website on your smartphone. You’ll learn the history of the city or neighborhood, and the significance of various sites, monuments, and historical figures. Also, you’ll enjoy solving our various challenges at almost every stop along the way.

Admire this beautiful city hall and answer your first challenge here.