Museums
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Penn Dry Goods Market at Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg Returns May 16-17
The annual Penn Dry Goods Market, a textile-focused antiques and vintage show with dealers hailing from all over the state and beyond, will be held on Friday, May 16 from 10 AM-5 PM and Saturday, May 17 from 10 AM-3 PM at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg. The event benefits the Schwenkfelder…
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Gather Place Museum to Host Movie Time Afternoon, Fundraising Community Engagement Event on May 18
Gather Place Museum will be having a movie time afternoon and community engagement event on Sunday, May 18, in celebration of a new statewide day of recognition. That afternoon, Gather Place Museum will be hosting a screening of The Six Triple Eight. The powerful new film is about the 6888th Central Post Directory Battalion, which…
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Gather Place Museum Continues the Celebration with the Generational Voices™ Community Launch
After a successful kickoff event for America 250, in conjunction with Experience Yardley, Gather Place Museum is set to keep the momentum going. On Saturday, April 19, Gather Place Museum will host Generational Voices™ Community Launch. This free public event will serve as a showcase of oral histories, historic walking tours, and the debut of…
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Gather Place Museum Leads the Way as Bucks County’s First Nonprofit to Kick Off America250 Celebrations
History was made this past weekend in Yardley Borough as Gather Place Museum, in collaboration with Experience Yardley, officially launched Bucks County’s first America250 community engagement event. The celebration, held at the historic Yardley Friends Meeting House, marked the beginning of a year-long series honoring 250 years of American resilience, liberty, justice, and equality. Titled “Gather Place: Celebrating 250…
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Gather Place Museum Launches Inaugural America 250th Community Engagement Kickoff
Gather Place Museum in conjunction with Experience Yardley, is happy to host its inaugural America 250th Community Engagement Kickoff Event—the first-ever held in Bucks county gathering of its kind—on Saturday, April 12, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Yardley Friends Meeting House (65 N Main Street, Yardley, PA 19067). This historic, all-community…
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The African American Museum in Philadelphia Announces Programming for Black History Month
The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) has announced its lineup of programming and events in honor of Black History Month, which this year is nationally themed “African Americans and Labor.” The 2025 theme delves into the vital contributions of Black people across the spectrum of work, skilled and unskilled, free and unfree, voluntary and…
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Franklin Institute to Bring Back Controversial ‘Body Worlds’ Exhibit
The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia will once again host the controversial exhibit “Body Worlds” starting next month, writes Victor Fiorillo for Philadelphia Magazine. This series of traveling exhibits displays specimens of human bodies and various parts of human bodies that have been preserved by German scientist Gunther von Hagens. He uses a process…
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Doylestown Destination Finds Spot Among Pennsylvania’s 22 Quirkiest Museums
One local Bucks County museum has earned a place on the list of Pennsylvania’s 22 quirkiest museums, offering a great way to spend a fun afternoon, writes Kalena Thomhave for The Keystone. Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle in Doylestown showcase the life’s work of Henry Mercer, the eccentric archaeologist and tilemaker who passed away in…
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Washington Post Ranks Philadelphia Museum of Art Top 5 Museum in America
The best museums embody its cities’ ambitions and fulfill the ideal that anyone can walk in for a moment of rest and leave with a buzzing brain or stirred soul, write Philip Kennicott and Sebastian Smee for The Washington Post. The publication has ranked the top 20 museums in America, and the Philadelphia Museum of…
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Franklin Institute Opening Two Exhibits As Part of $20.5M Investment, 200-Year Anniversary Celebrations
This fall, the Franklin Institute will be opening two new permanent exhibits, featuring two of its most popular artifacts as part of a recent $20.5 million investment, writes Emma Dooling for the Philadelphia Business Journal. On November 23, the cultural institution will open its $12 million Hamilton Collections Gallery, which houses its 350-ton Baldwin locomotive.…
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African American Museum in Philadelphia to Present New Exhibition from Award-Winning Actress, CCH Pounder
The African American Museum in Philadelphia will soon present a new exhibition titled, “Shared Vision: Portraits from The CCH Pounder-Koné Collection.” The exhibition, which will make its debut on Saturday, September 14, will feature paintings from the personal collection of award-winning actress, CCH Pounder, which contains over 500 works of art from which the pieces…
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Discover Handmade Tiles and History at Doylestown’s Moravian Pottery
The Moravian Pottery and Tile Works Museum in Doylestown, continues to preserve Bucks County’s rich artistic history while inspiring future generations, writes Nikki DiMentri for CBS News Philadelphia. Founded by Henry Mercer, the museum still operates as it did over a century ago, meticulously crafting tiles using more than 6,000 of Mercer’s original designs. …
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African American Museum in Philadelphia to Host Event Celebrating History of Black Music in Philly
The African American Museum in Philadelphia is hosting an event celebrating the rich history of “The Philadelphia Sound” on Thursday, August 1. The official name of the event is “AAMPlifying Black Philly Music: Unveiling the Philadelphia Sound.” The interactive program will explore Philadelphia music history spanning from the 1800s to the present-day with a focus…
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Upper Merion Detective Aids in Revolutionary War Musket Return
A Revolutionary War-era musket that has been missing for 50 years has finally made its way back to Philadelphia with the help of Upper Merion Township Detective Brendan Dougherty, writes Justin Udo for KYW Newsradio. The New England musket was among the many artifacts from the Revolutionary era stolen in 1968 from the Valley Forge…
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4 Philadelphia Museums Make USA TODAY’s 10Best List
USA TODAY has named four Philadelphia museums to its “10Best” list of museums, writes Damon C. Williams for Philly Burbs. Readers and the voting public had four weeks to choose their favorite museums, and Philadelphia was highly represented among the group. The Franklin Institute in Center City holds the distinction of being Pennsylvania’s most visited…
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Taylor Swift Collection Now On Display at Stone Harbor Museum
The Stone Harbor Museum has opened a new Taylor Swift collection in the small Jersey Shore town where Swift often spent her summers as a child, writes Saleah Blancaflor for Penn Live. The collection officially opened on June 13, and will run through the end of September. Among the featured items in the collection include…
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Why the Founder of Colored Girls Museum Moved From Germantown Home to Ensure Its Continued Existence
Vashti DuBois, founder and executive director of The Colored Girls Museum, had to move from her home to ensure that the museum she created there was saved, writes Elizabeth Wellington for The Philadelphia Inquirer. For the past eight years, DuBois escorted visitors through her home in Germantown, showing them a variety of paintings, collages, fiber…
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Pride Month in Bucks: Experience Art and Drag at the Michener Museum’s Art After Dark
June marks Pride Month, a time to honor the LGBTQ+ community and reflect on the progress and ongoing challenges in the fight for social change, writes Michele Haddon for the Bucks County Courier Times. Originating from the Stonewall Uprising in 1969, Pride Month celebrates the strides made in the LGBTQ+ rights movement while shedding…
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