The museum education programs are numerous and varied. The museum works with 5 schools in the city, both at the schools and at the museum. Those schools are: The Greenfield School, The Wister School, The Philadelphia School, Peirce Middle School, and Friends Select on the Parkway. The projects range from a neighborhood video mapping project, poetry, and to a civil war program using materials from the museums collection. Also artist-in-residence projects, and online curriculum guides for teachers are available.
The adult programs include: a docent training program, history of the books classes, and a Senior Citizens outreach program. Other activities inclued poetry reading, curator's tours, lectures, literary walking tours, and artists' panels. Finally the museum's biggest public program, Bloomsday, held annually on June 16th, in which the entire block is shut down and stage a marathon reading of James Joyce's Ulysses.

The museum's permanent collection includes:
literary works from;
· manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
· first edition of Don Quixote
· first editions of Melville, Milton, Gray, Burns, Scott, Keats, Shelley
· Bram Stoker's research notes and outlines for Dracula
· Marianne Moore archive
· manuscript of James Joyce's Ulysses
fine and decorative arts from;
· over 10,000 original works from Maurice Sendak
· paintings by Thomas Sully
· sculpture ranging from antiquity to Matisse
· English, French, and American furniture of the 18th and 19th centuries
There's always more works around the museum in which you can explore.