Art and science museum · Reading, Berks County
Reading Public Museum
Art, natural science and ancient civilizations under one roof, plus a planetarium and an arboretum with paths winding around the museum's landscaped grounds.
What you will find
- Museum or exhibits
- Garden
- Observatory
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center
A hosiery magnate's stone mansion and the pines and spruces he planted in the early 1900s anchor these woods, threaded with trails and streams and kept as a center for nature education.
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Mid-Atlantic Air Museum
Volunteers restore and display vintage military and civilian aircraft at this airport museum, whose hangars hold rarities such as a World War II P-61 Black Widow night fighter.
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Daniel Boone Homestead
Frontiersman Daniel Boone was born here in 1734; the farm keeps the stone Boone house, a log house, barn, smithy and sawmill, with trails around a small lake.
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Conrad Weiser Homestead
The farm of Conrad Weiser, the colonial interpreter who brokered Pennsylvania's dealings with the Iroquois, with his 18th-century stone house and grave in a park landscaped by the Olmsted Brothers.
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French Creek State Park
The core of the Hopewell Big Woods, an unbroken sweep of forest with two lakes, rocky trails for hikers and mountain bikers, and the restored iron village of Hopewell Furnace right next door.
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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
Deep in the woods next to French Creek State Park, a restored 19th-century iron-making village with a charcoal blast furnace, the ironmaster's mansion and workers' houses.
