Museums in Upstate PA 7
Art, history, science, railroad and children's museums.
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Steamtown National Historic Site
A historic rail yard where steam locomotives fill a working roundhouse, with museums of railroading and a Union Pacific Big Boy among the giants on display.
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Electric City Trolley Museum
Restored trolleys and exhibits on electric streetcar history, with rides that roll past the old iron furnaces and through a nearly mile-long tunnel.
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Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art
Founded in 1908 in Nay Aug Park, this museum of natural history, science and art shows dinosaurs, birds, Dorflinger glass and folk art.
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Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
The story of the immigrants who mined anthracite coal and worked in the region's mills and factories, from church and home to company store, in McDade Park.
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Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine
Ride an open mine car 1,800 feet into the side of a mountain, then take a narrow-gauge steam train past strip mines and a bootleg coal hole.
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Eckley Miners' Village
A 19th-century anthracite company town of miners' houses and churches, with a coal breaker built for the 1970 film The Molly Maguires, telling the story of mining families.
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Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour
Descend about 300 feet in a mine car into a real anthracite mine, where guides recount the hard lives of the men and boys who worked underground.
