Museums in Pocono Mountains 4

Art, history, science, railroad and children's museums.

  • Asa Packer Mansion

    Historic house · Jim Thorpe, Carbon County

    The 1861 Italianate mansion of railroad magnate Asa Packer, founder of Lehigh University, on a hillside above town, with much of its original furniture in place.

  • Zane Grey Museum

    Historic house · Lackawaxen Township, Pike County

    The Delaware River home where the western novelist began his writing career, now a National Park Service museum near Roebling's historic aqueduct.

  • No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum

    Mine tour · Lansford, Carbon County

    Ride a mine car deep into an anthracite mine worked from 1855 to 1972, then explore a museum of mining life in the old wash shanty.

  • Old Jail Museum

    History museum · Jim Thorpe, Carbon County

    The 1871 county jail where several accused Molly Maguires were hanged, with dungeon cells and a mysterious handprint on the wall of Cell 17.