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Reading Public Museum
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Location	West Reading, Pennsylvania
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The Reading Public Museum is a museum in West Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum's permanent collection mainly focuses on art, science, and civilization. It also has a planetarium and a 25-acre (100,000 m²) arboretum.

Collection

A Study in White (undated), by Charles Webster Hawthorne.

The museum's art collection contains works from many cultures but mainly focuses on European and American paintings and woodcuts. Its fine art collection includes more than seven hundred oil paintings by American and international artists. Works by Dale Chihuly^[1] and Abraham P. Hankins^[2] are in the museum's Modern and Contemporary holdings.

The museum's collection includes Nefrina, a mummy from the Ptolemaic period in ancient Egypt.^[3]

The museum has a large collection of Pennsylvania German objects.^[4]

References

^ "Dappled Chalk Violet Ikebana with Fuchsia Frog Foot". collection.readingpublicmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
^ "Main Street". collection.readingpublicmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
^ "Nefrina". collection.readingpublicmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
^ "Pennsylvania German Collection". collection.readingpublicmuseum.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

Official website
Reading Public Museum within Google Arts & Culture
Media related to Reading Public Museum at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Museums in Pennsylvania
Art	Allentown Art Museum Andy Warhol Museum Athenaeum of Philadelphia Barnes Foundation Brandywine River Museum Carnegie Museum of Art The Clemente Museum Demuth Museum Erie Art Museum The Frick Pittsburgh Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia La Salle University Art Museum Mattress Factory Michener Art Museum Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon Palmer Museum of Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art Pittsburgh Glass Center Randyland Reading Public Museum Rodin Museum Susquehanna Art Museum Wayne Art Center Westmoreland Museum of American Art Woodmere Art Museum
History, Culture, and Religion	African American Museum in Philadelphia American Jewish Museum American Swedish Historical Museum Bicycle Heaven Civil War Museum of Philadelphia Erie Maritime Museum Gettysburg Museum Heinz History Center Independence National Historical Park Independence Hall Independence Seaport Museum Johnstown Flood Museum Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania Meadowcroft Rockshelter Mercer Museum Museum of the American Revolution Museum of Indian Culture National Civil War Museum National Constitution Center National Museum of American Jewish History Nationality Rooms Philadelphia History Museum Rosenbach Museum and Library State Museum of Pennsylvania U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Science, Technology, and Industry	Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University America On Wheels Carnegie Museum of Natural History Carnegie Science Center Center for PostNatural History Choo Choo Barn Da Vinci Science Center Delaware County Institute of Science Drake Well Museum Everhart Museum Franklin Institute Miniature Railroad & Village Mütter Museum National Toy Train Museum North Museum of Nature and Science Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Railroaders Memorial Museum Reading Railroad Heritage Museum Roadside America Science History Institute Steamtown National Historic Site Wagner Free Institute of Science
Children's	Children's Museum of Pittsburgh Please Touch Museum

Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania

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