Museums in The Alleghenies 7
Art, history, science, railroad and children's museums.
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East Broad Top Railroad
A three-foot-gauge railroad from the 1870s brought back to life, with steam excursions from Rockhill and an unusually complete set of old shops, roundhouse and yards.
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Old Bedford Village
A re-created village of log and frame buildings where costumed interpreters demonstrate frontier trades and daily life of the 1700s and 1800s.
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Fort Bedford Museum
A replica log blockhouse built in 1958 holds artifacts of the 1758 fort and life along the Forbes Road, from muskets to an 1814 Conestoga wagon.
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Johnstown Flood Museum
The story of the 1889 flood that killed more than 2,200 people, told in a former Carnegie library with an Oscar-winning documentary and an animated relief map.
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Palmer Museum of Art
Penn State's art museum, which moved in 2024 into a striking new building in the arboretum, with galleries spanning American, European, Asian and contemporary art.
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Pennsylvania Military Museum
Exhibits on the state's soldiers from colonial times onward center on the 28th Infantry Division Shrine, with a walk-through World War I trench scene.
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Railroaders Memorial Museum
The story of the workers who built and ran the Pennsylvania Railroad's great shops here, told in the former master mechanics building; the museum also runs the Horseshoe Curve visitor center.
