Category Archive: Museum exhibits

by Marisa Tracey, Visitor Services Director and Children’s Museum Coordinator

The Johnstown Children’s Museum is such a fun and exciting place! There’s food to shop for and cook, blocks to build with, a big slide to go down, and water to …

By Amy Regan, Heritage Johnstown curator

Have you ever wondered if there was a location that tied Johnstown’s history together? Well, the the Wagner-Ritter House and Garden does just that! This historic home ties together the Johnstown Flood Museum and the …

“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 …

“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 …

Heritage Johnstown is delighted to have reopened the Johnstown Flood Museum as of September 29! The reopening will be celebrated on Thursday, October 9 with a cocktail party at 5:00 pm.

The museum has been closed due to water damage from …

Yesterday Sean McCool, Heritage Johnstown board member, and Marisa Tracey of Heritage Johnstown received a $5,000 check from Lee Initiatives to support the Sidney & Rae Goldblatt Johnstown Children’s Museum’s “Inclimber Room.” The grant is part of a three-year commitment …

Objects can sometimes tell stories better than words. “Relic Tales of the Johnstown Floods,” a new temporary exhibition on the second floor of the Heritage Discovery Center, gives visitors a snapshot of Johnstown’s three major floods – 1889, 1936, and …

The dam is one of the best-loved exhibits in the entire the Johnstown Children’s Museum, and after 15 years of heavy use it’s ready for a makeover! The Westwood Garden Haven, under leadership of Christa Callahan, will work to repair …

The 1977 Johnstown flood was a landmark event in our city’s history. A line of severe thunderstorms stalled over Johnstown on July 20, 1977, dropping as much as a foot of rain in some areas. Small streams – Solomon’s Run, …

Were you a steelworker? Do you or someone you love have a story about working in the steel mills of Johnstown? JAHA wants to hear it!

The momentous new exhibition “Forging a Nation: Johnstown Iron & Steel” is now open at …