Four Unique Ways to Enjoy the Christmas City Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites invites you to enjoy their four exclusive holiday tour offerings beginning November 29th. In addition to the specially decorated museums, the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts and the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, visitors to Historic Bethlehem will be able to take in [...]
Yuengling Makes History…Again New book celebrates the history of America’s oldest family-owned brewery. Just one-year after Yuengling made headlines when they became the largest and oldest family-owned brewer in the United States, the Pennsylvania-based company is making history again in a stunning pictorial book commemorating their 184 years of continuous operation. D.G. Yuengling & Son, [...]
Historic Bethlehem 21st Annual Custom Designed Holiday Greeting and Note Cards Released for Sale Featuring “A Snowy Day on Main Street” by Bebe Traylor Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites 21st Annual Holiday greeting cards are now available for purchase at the Historic Bethlehem Visitor Center at 505 Main Street. This year’s stationary collection showcases Bebe [...]
“Dolly and Me” at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts Giving Thanks - Saturday, November 23, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Very young learners, Pre-K to Grade 1 will enjoy the engaging story Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland. Next they will make pilgrim’s hats, one for themselves and one for their [...]
Williams Township veterans will be honored at a service on Sunday, November 10, 1 pm, at the Veterans Memorial on the Williams Township Municipal campus, 655 Cider Press Rd., Easton. Staunch veteran supporter Sue Bulette will offer thoughts for the occasion. Children from the Williams Township Elementary School will pay special tribute to each attending [...]
On Sunday, October 20th Brownies are admitted free to the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts with any adult Pass Into History ticket. Don't miss your opportunity to meet the Betsy and Annie dolls, made exclusively for the Kemerer Museum and play in the Once Upon A TreeHouse interactive dollhouse room! Provided by Once Upon A TreeHouse, [...]
Stitched Together: Samplers from Past and Present, is one of two opening exhibitions at The Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts. This exhibition features work by members of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. Museum guests will explore the connection between needlework artists from past and present and how their work has [...]
Featuring Ken Schwartz Master Blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg Join Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites on October 6, 2013 for the annual Jeanette Barres Zug Lecture. This year’s speaker is Ken Schwarz, Master Blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg. Mr. Schwarz will be speaking about the metalworking of the early Moravians in Bethlehem. Mr. Schwarz began blacksmithing in [...]
Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts hosts Sandra Corpora’s “Plein Air” exhibit To recognize and honor artists who are continuing the decorative art traditions so revered in the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, Historic Bethlehem reopens the museum with a new gallery set aside to feature local artists. Named the Artist Spotlight, the gallery will open [...]
The Graphic Novel, Persepolis, To Be Featured The graphic novel and memoir, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi will come to life in the form of an innovative dance interpretation on September 26 at Muhlenberg’s Trexler Library, sponsored by Judith’s Reading Room, the winner of a $1,000 grant from the American Library Association. Persepolis, the story about [...]
