As of May 1, the Johnstown Flood Museum and Heritage Discovery Center/Johnstown Children’s Museum are open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm, Sunday noon-5:00 pm; and closed Tuesday. We will update this alert ribbon (and, in the instance of longer closures, the Heritage Johnstown Facebook Page) if either or both museums are closed due to severe weather.

Special events calendar is here.

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Updates from Heritage Johnstown

May 12, 2026 4:28 pm

The memoirs of John Fulton

John Fulton was the General Mining Engineer of Cambria Iron Company in Johnstown in the late 1800s. Heritage Johnstown houses six unpublished memoirs by John Fulton about his life, work, and retirement. The typewritten memoirs are annotated, …

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As part of the ongoing international exhibition, “Let Me Be Myself — The Life Story of Anne Frank,” Hope Springs Eternal: The Holocaust Project is proud to host a special guest presentation by Susan Robinson Hawkins on May 9 at …

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March 16, 2026 10:45 am

The Johnstown flood of March 17, 1936

March 17, 1936 is the second of Johnstown’s three major floods. Unlike the floods of 1889 and 1977, a dam failure was not involved — instead, it was caused by a massive snowmelt and three days of rain. Heritage Johnstown’s …

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The Epstein Family has a long and significant history in Johnstown. Their story of immigration, religion, business, and community history all embody that of many Johnstown families. Over the past few months, Richland High School student Saffron Barrett-Ross catalogued the …

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“Hope Springs Eternal: The Holocaust Project” is proud to announce the arrival of the internationally acclaimed exhibition, “Let Me Be Myself — The Life Story of Anne Frank.” The exhibition will be hosted at the Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage …

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This Heritage Johnstown at Home post is based on research done by members of our organization in the early 2000s as part of an extensive local African-American history project. It was researched primarily by Andrew Baraniak, an AmeriCorps volunteer, with …

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The AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival today announced its strongest lineup to date for the July 24-25 festival, with headliners Greensky Bluegrass featuring Holly Bowling (pictured) and The Disco Biscuits.

“After four consecutive years of record attendance, this lineup raises the …

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“Let me be myself and then I am satisfied,” Anne Frank wrote in her diary on 11 April 1944. By that time, she had been in hiding in Amsterdam for almost two years as World War II raged on.

 ‘Let Me …

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As of January 5, Marisa Lehman (left) has succeeded Deb Winterscheidt as chief operating officer for Heritage Johnstown.

Marisa is no stranger to Heritage Johnstown, having served as the organization’s director of rentals and sales in 2023-2024, and she has worked …

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 Celebration Johnstown, Discover Downtown Partnership (DDJP), and Heritage Johnstown are partnering to present “A Bright New Year” inside the Community Foundation Oilhouse at Peoples Natural Gas Park on New Year’s Eve.

The event will include activities for families and children, …

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