The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Responds to COVID-19 – UPDATE 03.13.2020 The safety and well-being of our visitors, volunteers and staff is the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission’s highest priority. We are closely monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation as it evolves in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Today, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Wolf announced [...]
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Responds to COVID-19 The safety and well-being of our visitors, volunteers and staff is the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission’s highest priority. We are closely monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation as it evolves in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. We are taking the following steps, developed in conjunction with the Governor’s [...]
Old Economy Village will be featured on the Pennsylvania Cable Network's (PCN) It's History! onSeptember 1st at 8:00 p.m. The show will be exploring Old Economy Village and focused on Harmonist History, including the daily life of the leaders and the industries they were involved in. You don't want to miss it! It’s History! offers tours of historic sites [...]
The exhibit will be open from August 10, 2019 - December 31, 2019. An exhibit about secession from the Harmony Society will open at Old Economy Village with a special reception on August 9th at 7:00 p.m. The exhibit focuses on all of the various people that left the Society, with emphasis on the Great Schism [...]
Harrisburg, PA – Beginning this summer, visitors to select state-owned historic sites who are blind or have low vision can access technology that uses their smartphones or special glasses to get free on-demand audio descriptions of individual objects, artworks, and even entire exhibits from remotely located professional agents. The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) [...]
Old Economy Village in Ambridge, Pa. will be offering two Home School Days this spring. The first one will be on Wednesday, April 24 from 1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. The second one will be Friday, April 26 from 1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. This event will allow home school families to explore the Village [...]
A Scherenschnitte Class will be offered on Saturday, April 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This German craft is the art of fancy paper cutting design. The instructor, Angela Gentile, has been doing Scherenschnitte for many years and has both demonstrated and taught it at Old Economy Village. This class is free, but space [...]
Old Economy Village in Ambridge, Pa. will be having its annual Spring Garden Workshop on April 21st. The event will begin at 8 a.m., and runs until 4 p.m. Visitors are instructed to check in at the Old Economy Village Visitor Center. This event will feature speakers, presentations, lunch, and a small party at [...]
Old Economy Village in Ambridge is seeking volunteers interested in becoming tour guides for school tours. Old Economy Village has several educational school programs ranging from pre-school to High School. Most programs last 2 hours and have both fun and educational activities for the students to perform. Training is simple and is done at [...]
Old Economy Village in Ambridge will conduct several classes in April. Silk reeling will be featured on Saturday, April 14 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sandy Smailer has over 50 years of experience with textiles and fiber arts. She will discuss and demonstrate to participants how silk fiber is extracted from the silkworm cocoon [...]