High School students from across Potter County gather at the PA Lumber Museum to test their knowledge about the natural world. Hands-on activities in forest management, aquatics, wildlife, and soils are led and graded by industry professionals. The winning team is eligible to compete in the state-wide Envirothon later in May.
Join us for a family fun event where vendors will be on hand selling a variety of items like furniture, glassware, coins, books, clothing, and collectibles. A selection of historic trades, including the museum's birch still, will be demonstrated. A cooking demonstration and tasting featuring wild leeks will be in the museum's Mess Hall from…
Although overshadowed, women have always been part of lumber history. Join Museum Educator Jennifer Haines as she shines a light on the women who worked in remote logging camps, operated presses in factories, and held political posts who played important active roles in the state’s courageous and reckless lumbering past. The program will be held…
Happy Birthday Pennsylvania! Celebrate King Charles II granting William Penn the charter to found the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with Free Admission to the museum! Apple fritter making demonstration in museum’s Mess Hall from 11:30am until supplies are gone.
Have you ever seen photos of the milky way with buildings, trees, or lakes in the foreground and thought you’d like to know how to do that? Join instructor Curt Weinhold at the museum to gain knowledge and learn about some of the essential tools for nightscape photographs. The class will cover the equipment you’ll…
Eat like a lumberjack at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum. Enjoy all you can eat pancakes and sausages cooked by museum staff. Children can listen to winter stories read by our museum educator and take part in making a winter craft. Breakfast is $10 for adults, $6 for youth ages 4-11 years old.
Visitors can ride their snowmobiles to the museum all weekend long! Although the museum is not normally accessible by snowmobile, the Susquehannock State Forest will open a special route for snowmobilers from Thomson Road, south of PA Route 6, through DCNR property. Way-finding signs and instructions will be placed along the route. Riders will be…
Woodhicks loved themselves some flannel so shake off those winter blues with black and red plaid and come celebrate National Flannel Day with us. This program offers indoor fun for the whole family with stories, foam axe throwing, woodhick games, and a lumberjack craft.
Outdoor fun in the snow with sledding, snow men, and snow art activities. Try your hand at cross-country skis and snowshoes with the help of equipment provided by PA DCNR and volunteer instructors.
This year’s Fall Antique Show & Sawmill Run will be held on Saturday October 7th and Sunday October 8th, RAIN OR SHINE. Northern Pennsylvania typically reaches peak fall foliage conditions around this time so the forests surrounding the museum will (hopefully) be decked in rich and beautiful colors. The Antique Show features multiple antique vendors…
SAVE THE DATE!!--Put on your flannel and join us for an evening of lumberjack competition. Watch as semi-professional competitors take on six timbersport events. Enjoy beverage samples from Log yard Brewing and tasty eats from area food trucks. Try your hand at throwing some axes at the museum’s new axe throwing course. Tickets go on…
Join us for a screening of the new feature-length documentary NEPADOC followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker David Heineman of Bloomsburg University. The documentary is about intersections of environment, industry, and identity in Northeastern Pennsylvania over the past 300 years. Inspired by non-verbal documentary film landmarks such as Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka, NEPADOC blends 4K…