Mennonite Heritage Center
A museum and archive of Mennonite life with the Mary Jane Lederach Hershey Fraktur Gallery, changing exhibits, the John L. Ruth Historical Library, and an optional 22-minute film. Adult admission is a $7 suggested donation; kids under 12 get in free.
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Encountering Menno Simons: An Anabaptist Reading Group
September's session of the heritage center's Anabaptist reading group, same ninety minute slot on the second Thursday.
Apple Butter Frolic
Apple butter stirred in copper kettles on the Mennonite Heritage Center grounds, plus historic craft and farming demonstrations, children's games, and food for sale: sausage sandwiches, fresh scrapple, ground cherry pies, apple dumplings. Rain or shine, no pets.
Encountering Menno Simons: An Anabaptist Reading Group
A reading group working through the writings of the sixteenth century Anabaptist leader, meeting at the Mennonite Heritage Center. Ninety minutes, registration through the center, and the museum galleries are open the same afternoon.
Encountering Menno Simons: An Anabaptist Reading Group
The November sitting of the same group, ninety minutes on Menno Simons and the early Anabaptists. Tickets go through the heritage center's registration page.
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New Hope Arts
An arts center in the old Worthington's Garage, which sold and fixed cars for five decades before the sculptors moved in. Time your visit for the annual juried sculpture show — the 21st edition hung more than 90 works from 58 artists in metal, stone, wood, and clay.
James A. Michener Art Museum
Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings hang inside the stone walls of the 1884 Bucks County prison, which closed in 1985 and reopened as a museum in 1988, named for Doylestown's own James Michener. The collection runs to more than 2,700 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.
Historic Sugartown
Preserved 19th-century crossroads village with a general store, carriage museum, the circa-1805 Garrett House, and a working book bindery. Grounds are open daily 9 to 5 year-round; guided tours run Saturdays and Sundays May through November, with parking at 273 Boot Road.
