Recreation Spaces and Activities with Admission/Fees
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Museum pass available at EAPL
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas and organizes public exhibits and educational programs for both schools and the general public.
- Location:
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103
- Contact:
215-299-1000
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African American Museum of Philadelphia - Museum pass available at APL
The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) is notable as the first museum funded and built by a municipality to help preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans.
- Location:
701 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
- Contact:
215-574-0380
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America On Wheels - Museum pass available at APL
America on Wheels is an over-the-road transportation museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The 43,000 square feet museum offers over 23,000 square feet of exhibit space divided into three main galleries and several smaller exhibits.
- Location:
5 North Front Street, Allentown, PA 18102
- Contact:
610-432-4200
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Antoine Dutot Museum & Gallery
Fine art gallery in a circa-1850 brick school house that tells the Delaware Water Gap history, lectures & art shows.
- Location:
24 Main Street, Delaware Water Gap, PA 18327
- Contact:
570-476-4240
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Battleship New Jersey - Museum pass available at EAPL
Check website for details on accessibility, tours, activities, etc.
- Location:
62 Battleship Place, Camden, NJ 08103
- Contact:
856-966-1652
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Bucks County Children's Museum - Museum pass available at APL
A hands-on learning museum for families to learn about local history. Advanced reservations are highly recommended.
- Location:
500 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA 18938
- Contact:
215-693-1290
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Chanticleer Gardens - Museum pass available at EAPL
Chanticleer Garden is a forty-eight-acre botanical garden built on the grounds of the Rosengarten estate at 786 Church Road in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Located on Philadelphia's historic Main Line, Chanticleer retains a domestic scale and is welcoming to visitors for relaxation, walking, and picnics. Parking reservations needed on weekends.
- Location:
786 Church Road, Wayne, PA 19087-4713
- Contact:
610-687-4163
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Daniel Boone Homestead
Site of Daniel Boone's family's homestead including the Maugridge and DeTurk families within a 57-acre property with a variety of historic structures, trails, lakes.
- Location:
400 Daniel Boone Road, Birdsboro, PA 19508
- Contact:
610-582-4900
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Da Vinci Science Center - Museum pass available at APL
The Da Vinci Science Center’s hands-on exhibits, programs, and partnership initiatives present science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects to kids informally, playfully, and in ways that relate to their popular interests. These active and engaging experiences awaken interest, promote fundamental skills, and inspire students to consider exciting STEM careers that meet growing industry demands.
- Location:
3145 Hamilton Blvd. Bypass, Allentown, PA 18103
- Contact:
484-664-1002
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Durham Historical Society
Housed in the Durham Furnace, once owned by George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Society tells the story of the area.
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Eastern State Penitentiary - Museum pass available at EAPL
The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 2027 Fairmount Avenue between Corinthian Avenue and North 22nd Street in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. Online discounted tickets are available along with special guided tours.
- Location:
2027 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130
- Contact:
215-236-3300
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Eddyside Pool
side Pool offers a 25 meter tank for swimmers of all abilities as well as a children’s pool that has a sloped walk-in entry so that kids of all ages can easily enter and exit the water. There are also two pavilions which can be rented for private events.
- Location:
Route 611 N near the intersection with Lafayette Street, Easton, PA 18042
- Contact:
610-250-6713
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George Taylor House
A 1768 building owned by George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- Location:
35 South Front Street, Catasauqua, PA 18032
- Contact:
610-264-0541 x251
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Heil Pool
Heil Pool is a great outdoor 50 meter tank that is used for both recreational and competitive swimming. The facility has a small spray park for the enjoyment of younger patrons and the pool features two deep water slides, a shallow area for beginner swimmers and plenty of grass area for relaxing. There is also a concession stand for food and drinks, and a pavilion that can be rented for private events.
- Location:
900 Packer Avenue, Easton, PA 18042
- Contact:
610-250-6714
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Historic Bethlehem
Historic Bethlehem has 12 historic sites with a variety of history, hours, and fees. They convey the history of the area, industries, and the Moravians.
- Location:
74 West Broad Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
- Contact:
1-800-360-TOUR
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Independence Seaport Museum - Museum pass available at APL
The Independence Seaport Museum was founded in 1961 and is located in the Penn's Landing complex along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The collections at the Independence Seaport Museum document maritime history and culture along the Delaware River.
- Location:
211 S. Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19106
- Contact:
215-413-8655
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Jacobsburg Historical Society
Historic Boulton site, the Henry family estate on the Bushkill Creek with several historic buidling including the Homestead, home of the Long rifle Museum, the mansion, summer kitchen, barns with antique vehicles, and a center for Early American craft programs.
- Location:
402 Henry Road, Nazareth, PA 18064
- Contact:
610-759-9029
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John Updike Childhood Home
The childhood home of American wirter John Updike, it was built in 1884 by Samuel and Howard Shilling. The home conveys the period of 1932-45 when the Updike family lived on the property.
- Location:
117 Philadelphia Avenue, Shillington, PA 19607
- Contact:
call James Plath, 308-556-3352 /
jplath@iwu.edu / tours: mlester@albright.edu
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Liberty Bell Museum - Museum pass available at APL
Museum relays the story of how the Liberty Bell was saved from the British during the Revolutionary War.
- Location:
622 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101
- Contact:
610-435-4232
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Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle - Museum pass available at APL
The museum complex features local and national traveling exhibits, as well as a core museum collection of over 50,000 pre-Industrial tools. This permanent collection offers visitors a unique window into pre-Industrial America through sixty different crafts and trades, and is one of the world’s most comprehensive portraits of pre-Industrial American material culture. The museum also features a research library that is a center for local history related to Bucks County and the surrounding region.
- Mercer Museum Location: 84 South Pine Street Doylestown, PA 18901
- Fonthill Castle Location: East Court Street & Route 313 Doylestown, PA 18901
- Contact: 215-345-0210 / 215-348-9461
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Monroe County Historical Society
The Stroud Mansion constructed in 1795 by Col. Jacon Stroud for his son is located in downtown Stroudsburg. The 13-room dwelling has four floors of exhibit space relaying the county's history including a colonial kitchen, Stroud family room, Victorian parlor, antique toy room, military, medicine, and Pennsylvania German rooms.
- Location:
900 Main Street, Stroudsburg, PA 18360
- Contact:
540-421-7703
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Moravian Historical Society
The site offers educational programming, costumed guided tours, exhibits, and public activities including view the earliest known violin produced in colonial America, paintings by the colonial Moravian artist John Valentine Haidt, a pipe organ made by early America’s premier organ-builder, David Tannenberg, an early 1850s Martin guitar, rare books and much more!
- Location:
214 E Center Street, Nazareth, PA 18064
- Contact:
610-759-5070
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Mütter Museum - Museum pass available at EAPL and APL
The Mütter Museum is a medical museum located in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contains a collection of anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment. The museum is part of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
- Location:
19 S 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
- Contact:
215-563-3737
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National Museum of Industrial History - Museum pass available at EAPL
The museum is located on the former campus of the Bethlehem Steel plant, now the SteelStacks campus. It houses artifacts from around the world related to American industries. Exhibits include interactives like a virtual hot air balloon ride, measure your own horsepower, and more.
- Location:
602 E 2nd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
- Contact:
610-694-6644
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No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum
The museum is housed in the No. 9 Mine's Wash Shanty and relay the history and experience of anthracite mining.
A one-hour guided walking tour takes you through "the oldest coal mine you can tour in the United States," the 900-foot deep shaft, the mule-way, a miner's hospital cut from solid rock, and gift shop.
- Location:
9 Dock Street, Lansford, PA 18232
- Contact:
570-645-7074
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Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society (Sigal Museum)
The Sigal Museum, located in downtown Easton has collection of American Indian artifacts, decorative arts, textiles, farming implements, and exquisite colonial and Victorian-era furniture, and offers a series of special exhibitions and regional artist showcases. The Society also hosts family-friendly activities, programs, exhibitions, events, summer history camp, and tours for special groups
- Location:
342 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 18042
- Contact:
610-253-1222
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Palmer Pool
The Palmer Pool is associated with The Charles Chrin Community Center of Palmer Township. Passes can be purchased from the Chrin Center.
- Location: 3001 Farmersville Road, Palmer, PA 18045
- Contact:
610-258-4576 (summer only)
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Pearl S. Buck House
The Pearl S. Buck House, formerly known as Green Hills Farm, is the 67-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Nobel-prize-winning American author Pearl Buck lived for 40 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening.
- Location:
520 Dublin Road, Perkasie, PA 18944
- Contact:
215-249-0100
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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens - Museum pass available at APL
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is a non-profit organization, folk art environment, and gallery space on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To date, it is the largest work created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar. The Magic Gardens spans three city lots, and includes indoor galleries and a large outdoor labyrinth.
- Location:
1020 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
- Contact:
215-733-0390
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Reading Public Museum - Museum pass available at APL
The Reading Public Museum is a museum in West Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum's permanent collection mainly focuses on art, science, and civilization. It also has a planetarium and a 25-acre arboretum.
- Location:
500 Museum Road, Reading, PA 19611
- Contact:
610-371-5850
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Reading Railroad Heritage Museum
The museum is the educational and interpretive center for the extensive collections of the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society and relays its impact on southeastern Pennsylvania and beyond from its beginning in 1833 until the end of its era in 1976.
- Location:
500 South 3rd Street, Hamburg, PA 19526
- Contact:
610-263-5513
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Tileworks of Bucks County
The Tileworks are open for visitors to experience the process and craftsmanship of tile making.
- Location:
130 E Swamp Road, Doylestown, PA 18901
- Contact:
215-239-9797
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Washington Crossing Historic Park
The 500-acre park includes restored Colonial buildings in the park, such as the Thompson-Neely House and McConkey Ferry Inn, give many clues about living conditions during the Revolutionary era. The park also contains Bowman’s Hill Tower, Revolutionary War soldiers’ graves, stone memorials, picnic pavilions and historic collections. The Park hosts many events throughout the year.
$7 per person (5y+) for guided tours.
- Location:
1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA 18977
- Contact:
215-493-4076
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Woodmere Art Museum
Housed in a 19th-century stone mansion on six acres in Chestnut Hill, Woodmere Art Museum is dedicated to the art and artists of Philadelphia.
- Location:
9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
- Contact:
215-247-0476
