September 2010
Because of an amazing facial reconstruction created by world-renowned forensic sculptor and artist, Frank Bender, and based on the detailed physiological portrait provided by CAT scans made in 2003, this is the first time the public will come face-to-face with this 2,000 year-old woman from the ancient Egyptian town of Akhmim.
The sculpture will be on view in the Ancient Civilizations Gallery, accompanied by a new focus exhibition titled Nefrina's World. You’ll enjoy never-before-seen images of her CAT scans and fascinating new insights into the world in which she lived.
Event Time: Museum Hours
Featuring selections from a local private collection focused on the craftsmen and objects illustrating the traditional heritage of the Pennsylvania Germans, this exhibition includes nearly 100 works of art in a variety of media, dating largely from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Programming for the exhibition will include a Gallery Talk by guest curator, Louisa Bartlett, on Friday, June 25 at 4 p.m. followed
by a Members Opening Reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. $15 for Non-Members, free for Members (also covers Jun Kaneko Opening Reception the same evening). Additional programming
will be offered in September in conjunction with the reopening of the Arts of
Southeastern Pennsylvania Gallery at the Museum.
Showcased are works of art on paper, textiles, metals, furniture and ceramics. These examples illuminate the vibrant diversity of Germanic folk arts in Pennsylvania and reveal the influence of various cross-cultural traditions.
Objects in this exhibition display an exuberance in decoration that is often found among works by the Pennsylvania Germans who loved to embellish even utilitarian forms — including glazed red earthenware plates, small ceramic figures of animals and birds, sugar bowls, and pipe holders. Also on exhibit are examples of the work of a number of Berks County potters, furniture forms including storage chests, the shrank or cupboard, and brightly painted fancy or Windsor chairs.
The technical skill of Pennsylvania artisans in metals is demonstrated in
the exhibition through pieces of pewter, brass fat-burning lamps and wrought iron. Works on paper include portraits of Berks County subjects, fraktur drawings, birth and baptismal certificates, writing samples, valentines, and broadsides.
Event Time: Museum Hours
Mainly identified as a sculptor, prolific artist Jun Kaneko’s work is also internationally recognized for its innovative and technical achievement in glass, textiles, bronze, paper, and canvas.
This exhibition includes 39 works from the Kaneko Studio, and is part of a ten-city nationwide tour.
Opening Reception on Friday, June 25 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Open to the public – $15 Non-Members, free to Members. Refreshments and light hors d'oeuvres.
Event Time: Museum Hours
Outstanding works including drawings, watercolors, lithographs, etchings, and engravings by more than twenty women artists from the seventeenth through twentieth century will be the feature of Women Artists on view from September 4, 2010 through January 29, 2011 in the Museum’s Works on Paper Gallery.
Historical works by Elisabetta Sirani, Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eliza Greatorex, and Anna Lee Merritt, will join works from the twentieth century by Käthe Kollwitz, Isabel Bishop, Peggy Bacon, Anne Goldthwaite, Clara Skinner, Grace Hartigan, Francois Gilot, Louise Nevelson, Joan Mitchell, Elaine de Kooning, Elizabeth Osborne, and Beatrice Riese, among others.
Event Time: Museum Hours
Bring your family and enjoy one (or all) of the fascinating Star Shows
in our digitally enhanced Planetarium.
1 p.m. - In My Backyard
2 p.m. - IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System
3 p.m. - Astronaut
Admission: $7.00 Adults (18-60); $5.00 Seniors/Children/Students (w/id);
FREE Children under 4 and Members
Event Time: 1, 2 & 3 p.m.
Kids, bring your parents and enjoy a story reading, mini-tour and
hands-on activity for ages 4 and 5. Now at both 10 a.m. (group
reservations only) and 1 p.m. (public).
Today's story: Ish by Peter Reynolds
$5/Participating Child, chaperone free
Event Time: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
TopIt's time to walk the walk! In honor of "National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month" (September), and sponsored by Easy Does It, Caron, Council on Chemical Abuse and Common Ground, this FREE event is open to all. The walk to celebrate recovery from addiction begins at Reading Area Community College (RACC) at Noon and continues to the Reading Public Museum along the Thun and Wyomissing Park Trails. (1.5 or 3 miles)
Enjoy food, drinks, karaoke, music face painting and other fun activities upon arrival at the Museum's Arboretum. There will be an Open Recovery Meeting from 3-4 p.m. in the Auditorium, and Christopher Kennedy-Lawford will be on hand to "walk the walk" and to sign his newest book, "Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery."
No rain date. For a flier, click on "learn more" below.
Event Time: Noon-4 p.m.
Bring your family and enjoy one (or all) of the fascinating Star Shows
in our digitally enhanced Planetarium.
1 p.m. - In My Backyard
2 p.m. - IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System
3 p.m. - Astronaut
Admission: $7.00 Adults (18-60); $5.00 Seniors/Children/Students (w/id);
FREE Children under 4 and Members
Event Time: 1, 2 & 3 p.m.
Join us at the Museum for a day of family fun! Grandparents and kids will enjoy a family-friendly Planetarium Show, tour of the Museum, snacks, story readings and a keepsake art project. One of the popular toys from The Museum Shop will be a raffle prize.
Ticket prices:
Members - $5 per adult; $3 per child; or $15 for a family of five
Non-Members - $7 per adult; $5 per child; or $25 for a family of five
Pre-registration is recommended. Families check in at the Museum at 10:45 a.m. (Children must be accompanied by a grandparent). For more information, contact Anne Corso in the Department of Education at 610-371-5850 x227 or e-mail: anne.corso@readingpublicmuseum.org
For a registration form/flier, click on "learn more" below.
Event Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Bring your family and enjoy one (or all) of the fascinating Star Shows
in our digitally enhanced Planetarium.
1 p.m. - In My Backyard
2 p.m. - IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System
3 p.m. - Astronaut
Admission: $7.00 Adults (18-60); $5.00 Seniors/Children/Students (w/id);
FREE Children under 4 and Members
Event Time: 1, 2 & 3 p.m.
Sorry ! Trip is full (as of 8/17/10)
Travel to the Franklin Institute to see the exhibition Cleopatra and the IMAX movie Mummies. In the afternoon, we’ll tour the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Egyptian Collection. (lunch on your own at the Franklin or nearby)
Bus departs from Museum parking lot at 7:30 am and departs from Philadelphia at 4:00 pm
$80 Members/$90 Non-Members
For more information and a registration form, see "learn more."
Event Time: 7:30 a.m.