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Living History Sunday: Colonial Dress
Join us for a Living History event featuring costumed interpreters dressed in a variety of colonial garb appropriate for their role. The Living History demonstrations are free, house tours are $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds.
Find out more »Life in William Penn’s Woods
Take a guided nature walk through the grounds of Graeme Park and learn about how our colonial forefathers would have used the land and the resources found here. Leashed dogs welcome.
Find out more »Living History Sunday: Children’s Day
Children will have the opportunity to attend colonial school, write with quill pens, play colonial games and make a corn-husk doll. The Living History demonstrations are free with a donation requested for the corn husk dolls, house tours are $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds.
Find out more »Home School Day
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Find out more »Lunch & Learn: The Bryn Athyn Train Wreck
December 5, 1921. Two trains. One track. 27 dead. 70 injured. The crash in Bryn Athyn of two opposing trains of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway was one of the most catastrophic of its time, yet largely unknown today. Many factors contributed to the disaster that unfolded between Woodmont and Paper Mill Stations in Upper Moreland Township, including the wooden passenger cars, which were equipped with gas tanks for heating, the terrain, and the weather. Speaker Jim Rose is a…
Find out more »Living History Sunday: Dress Like a Pirate Day
Governor William Keith, the first owner of Graeme Park, helped to rid the port of Philadelphia from the scourge of Blackbeard the Pirate. Learn about piracy in the colonies and beyond. Children and visitors are invited to dress in their best Pirate costume and partake in a hunt for hidden treasure.
Find out more »Halloween Tour
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Find out more »Christmas in the Colonies
Details TBD It is also Small Business Saturday. Shop Local. Support History & Heritage. We have books, puzzles, small old fashioned toys, stocking stuffers, and easy parking and no mall crowds. Open Fridays and Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm & Sundays noon - 4 pm. Free DIY gift wrap station for purchases made in our museum store on Small Business Saturday or Museum Store Sunday (12/1).
Find out more »Museum Store Sunday
Shop Local. Support History & Heritage. We have books, puzzles, small old fashioned toys, stocking stuffers, and easy parking and no mall crowds. Open Fridays and Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm & Sundays noon - 4 pm. Free DIY gift wrap station for purchases made in our museum store on Small Business Saturday (11/30) or Museum Store Sunday.
Find out more »Santa’s Workshop
Join us for an evening of holiday crafting and light refreshments. Details TBD.
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