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940 Centre Avenue
Reading, PA 19601
610-375-4375
New Fall
Museum Hours:
Tuesday
- Friday
10:00am - 3:00pm
Saturday
9:00am - 3:00pm
New Library Hours:
Tuesday -
Closed
Wednesday - Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday
8:00am - 4:00pm
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Museum Store
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New Nolde Forest Pottery and other Holiday Gifts now available.
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Henry Janssen Library Book Club
Meeting
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Historical Review of Berks County
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Fall 2015 edition now available in our Museum Store! $10.00
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New BHC Bus Trip!
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Valentine's Progressive Dine-A-Round in Chesapeake City, MD
February 11, 2015, 9:30am-6:30pm
Enjoy a day of love in Chesapeake City, MD with a guided historical tour and many treats and eats along the way!
Members $105/person
Non-Members $115/person
Includes: Motorcoach transportation, Baker's Restaurant (soup & salad), Chesapeake Inn (Entree), Kilby Creamery (dessert), guided service and guide gratuity.
Registration Deadline: January 15, 2016
To register contact Vicky Heffner at 610-375-4375 or education@berkshistory.org
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Tune in to see our monthly program on BCTV!
The show airs LIVE on the FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 7:00pm and is repeated Friday at 10:00pm, Saturday at 6:00pm, and Sunday at 9:00am of the same week.
Our next BCTV Program will air on January 6, 2015 at 7:00pm.
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*Please note! Off-street parking is available in our Henry Janssen Library lot (160 Spring Street) directly behind the Berks History Center (940 Centre Avenue).
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Daniel Boone Homestead
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A Homestead Christmas
December, 6 2015,
12-4pm
Here Comes Santa Claus! Holiday Bonfire &
Santa's Workshop
December 11, 2015,
6-8pm
For more information call
610-582-4900
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Leesport Lock House
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Sat. Hours - 10AM-4PM
Sun. Hours - 12PM-4PM
Call 610-926-5770 for more information.
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Click here to check out Pretzel City Productions Facebook page.
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Special Deaccession Auction by Pook & Pook at BHC
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Benefit Auction by Pook & Pook
at the Berks History Center
Saturday, December 12th, 2015
Enjoy a unique opportunity to bid on objects approved for deaccessioning by the board of trustees of the Berks History Center in a special on-site sale. All proceeds to benefit the museum's acquisition and conservation fund.
Auction preview starts at 11:30 a.m.
Auction begins at 2 p.m.
"More than 100 lots to include baskets, ceramics, glass, toleware, furniture, and assorted decorative objects. Highlights include a paneled schrank; two painted dower chests; several painted brides boxes; five tall clocks including examples by Henry Hahn, Daniel Oyster, Daniel Rose, and Benjamin Witman; and a set of eight Ratskeller-type armchairs and a trestle table from the Bitting mansion in Reading. Other furniture includes several beds, parlor organs, steamer trunks, numerous Windsor and plank-seat chairs, and a Brettstuhl."
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Second Saturday at BHC
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Second Saturday:
Celebrating Pennsylvania German Folk Art
December 12, 2015 at 10:00AM
Join us for a lively and informative presentation by Lisa Minardi, assistant curator at Winterthur Museum, on Pennsylvania German folk art. Enjoy lea
rning about painted chests, fraktur, redware, and other colorful objects made in Berks County and the surrounding region. There will be a book sale and signing following the lecture of Ms. Minardi's recent publications, including
A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & the Art of Everyday Life
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About Lisa Minardi:
Lisa Minardi is an assistant curator at Winterthur Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in the History of American Civilization program at the University of Delaware, where she is studying the Germans in colonial Philadelphia for her dissertation. She also serves as executive director of The Speaker's House, the historic home of Frederick Muhlenberg in Trappe, PA. A Montgomery County native and specialist in Pennsylvania German art and culture, Lisa holds a B.A. in history and museum studies from Ursinus College and an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Her exhibitions and publications include
Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850
(Winterthur, 2011);
Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvania
(Berman Museum of Art, 2011);
Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection
(Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2015); and
A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & the Art of Everyday Life (
Winterthur, 2015).
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70s Throwback: Uncle Drew at Bldg. 24
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January 30, 2016 at Bldg. 24
After a huge success playing at the Berks History Center's Magical History Tour 3 this summer, Uncle Drew is making a special appearance at Bldg. 24 on Saturday, January 30, 2016. Uncle Drew is a Berks County band formed in the early 1970s. This exclusive performance will open with local favorites
Steve Barth and Randy Rhoads and will
feature the original band members who came together to celebrate the history of the 60s and 70s at MHT3 this year.
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Good News!
Rollin' on the River: The Schuylkill & Its Canals will be open until the end of 2015!
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Henry Janssen Library
160 Spring Street
Reading, PA 19601 |
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The Henry Janssen Library is a state of the art genealogical and historical research facility at the Berks History Center. HJL is acknowledged to be one of the best and most thoroughly indexed collections of county data in Pennsylvania.
For more information click
here
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About Berks History Center
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The Berks History Center / Historical Society of Berks County is an educational center that serves to engage and excite our community by interpreting its unique past to understand the present and inspire the future.
To preserve, educate, inspire.
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