Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Travel Guide 2025
Make it Mini
2024-11-28 09:59:51
Miniature worlds serve as a gateway to big-time amusement.
Dollhouse aficionados can schedule a custom, curator-led tour of the Elizabeth Johnston Prime Dollhouse Collection, kept in a climate-controlled environment at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, part of Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites. Many well-dressed dolls reside in the exquisitely furnished tiny homes.
For golf of the miniature variety, head to The Farmer’s Inn in Sigel where a trio of courses suits differing ages and skill levels: A short 9-hole farm-themed course for youngest players; a longer 9-hole course requiring increased stamina; and an 18-hole course with landscaped countryside challenges. Afterward, enjoy ice cream, a petting zoo, and other family-friendly fun.
Despite a land-locked location in Ronks, Lost Treasure Golf delivers pirate-themed fun with two 18-hole miniature golf courses in an exotic environment replete with a waterfall, flowing streams, and a putt-able pirate ship.
The World of Little League Museum in South Williamsport beckons to young athletes and young-at-heart baseball enthusiasts. Since launching in 1939, Little League has morphed into the world’s largest organized youth sports program, and exhibits keep growing and evolving to showcase a lively history of the game, including immersive and interactive features.
Enter the Victorian train station in Strasburg for immersion in a world of pint-size railroadiana at the National Toy Train Museum. Among the world’s most extensive collections, toy train enthusiasts will discover dynamic displays and interactive train layouts, encompassing makers from Lionel to LEGO.
Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem showcases an impressive model train layout depicting historic local railroad layouts — a passion project decades in the making. The museum offers extended weekend hours from November through January.
During the holiday season, delight in the quaint Brandywine Railroad displayed at Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford.
At the Gettysburg Diorama & History Center, a narrated sound and light show depicts the Battle of Gettysburg in an accurately scaled down version of the battlefield, containing 20,000-plus hand-painted soldiers, horses, cannons, and buildings. For a quirkier interpretation, visit Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum, where historical scenes are serious but the miniature handcrafted clay soldiers are all, well, cats — including cats with beards, where appropriate.
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