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The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, both in Scranton, Lackawanna County [2] Eckley Miners' Village near Weatherly, Luzerne County [3] The Museum of Anthracite Mining overlooking the community of Ashland in Schuylkill County [1] A few museum exhibits are also located at the companion Lackawana Coal Mine Tour.
McDade Park is a community park located in Scranton in Lackawanna County, in northeastern Pennsylvania. It is named after former U.S. Representative Joseph M. McDade . The park is located on 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) of land, containing an outdoor pool, a fishing pond as well as a more isolated pond, basketball courts, hiking trails, tennis courts ...
The site has been managed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission since 1971 and is part of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum complex. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, as the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company Furnace. [1]
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad would become the major carrier of anthracite from the northern fields to New York City. [25] While the extensive railroad systems made transporting more efficient, they also lowered the price of coal in distant markets such as Philadelphia and NYC relative to the prices in areas surrounding the mines.
National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, dissolved in 2017; reopened as part of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis in 2018 [50] Ragtops Museum, Michigan City, closed in 2011 [51] Ropkey Armor Museum, Crawfordsville, closed in 2017 [52] Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, reopened as the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art in 2023 [53]
Marsh and Walker are positioning Big Tube, which has more than 10,000 square feet of collective exhibit space under one roof, as the city's contemporary art museum — but not in a traditional sense.
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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