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John J Audubon Center at Mill Grove
1201 Pawlings Road, Audubon, PA 19403
610-666-5593 https://johnjames.audubon.org/
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The John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove is situated on a historic 18th-century site, the farm where 18-year-old John James Audubon lived when he came from France in 1803. The portraits of birds contained in his seminal work The Birds of America helped inspire the formation of the National Audubon Society, the institution which manages the 175-acre estate. The site includes the original three-story farmhouse built in 1762 (a National Historic Landmark), miles of nature trails along the Perkiomen Creek, and a new building which features indoor and outdoor exhibits focused on birds, art, and conservation.
Categories: Architecture, Family, Nature, Science, Recreation
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 2 adults (18 and up) and 4 children (6 to 17). Children 5 and under are free.
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle
84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
215-345-0210 https://www.mercermuseum.org/
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The Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle are two poured-in-place concrete castles designed and built by gentleman anthropologist and tile maker Henry Mercer in the early 20th century. Located in Doylestown, PA, both structures—one built as a museum, the other as his home—now house his collections, each equally interesting as architecture. The museum complex features local and national traveling exhibits; a collection of over 50,000 pre-Industrial tools; a research library focused on the history of Bucks County and the surrounding region; and a gift shop. Fonthill Castle houses the famed decorative Moravian tiles Mercer produced during the American Arts & Crafts Movement.
Categories: Architecture, Crafts, Family, History
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 4 people (6 and up). Children 5 and under are free.
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
Donated by the Souderton-Telford Rotary
Penn Museum
3260 South Street , Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-4000 https://www.penn.museum/
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The Penn Museum is located in a unique Arts and Crafts and Eclectic style building on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. It is home to over a million artifacts, ethnographic objects, and archaeological finds from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Mediterranean. Begun in 1887, the collection is organized in eleven curatorial sections documenting the peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Many of the items in the collection were obtained directly through its own field excavations or anthropological research. Highlights include a 16th century commemorative plaque from Benin; an old stone monument from Guatemala depicting a ruler surrounded by Mayan glyph writing; the Sphinx of Ramses II, the largest ancient Egyptian sphinx in the Western Hemisphere; a statue of a seated pharaoh Ramses II (1290–1224 BCE); a Sioux headdress, a war bonnet made around 1890; a cloisonné statue of a lion from the Qing Dynasty era; a large marble relief once part of a commemorative monument for the Roman emperor Domitian (95 CE); an amphora made in Athens around 535 BCE which depicts the death of Achilles in battle; and a terracotta sculpture of a female head of the type typically attached to the roof tiles of an Etruscan temple of the 4th century BCE. There is a gift shop and a café on the premises.
Categories: Architecture, Crafts, Family, History
Pass Benefits
This pass admits two adults (18 and up) and all dependent children (6-17) in a patron's household. Children 5 and under are free.
The Shofuso Japanese House and Garden
Lansdowne and Horticultural Drives, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA 19131
215-878-5097 https://www.japanphilly.org/shofuso/
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The Shofuso Japanese House and Garden is a 17th century traditional-style Japanese house and garden in Philadelphia that reflects the history of Japanese culture in Philadelphia. Shofuso was built in Japan in 1953 using traditional techniques and materials. Before being moved to its current location, the house was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Twenty murals inspired by the waterfall, donated by the artist by Hiroshi Senju, are on view. A garden with koi pond and island, a tea garden, and a courtyard garden comprise the 17th century-style Japanese garden of this historic site and museum. Note that, because Shofuso is a reproduction of a 17th century house, it is not wheelchair or scooter accessible, nor is it easily accessible to users of walkers, canes, or prosthetics.
Categories: Architecture, Family, History, Nature
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 2 adults (18 and up) and 5 children (5 to 17). Children ages 4 and under are free.
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
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