Learn about the Far East without ever leaving Pennsylvania.  Join the Reading Public Museum on a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art where you will be treated to a special tour featuring works of Asian art from the Museum’s permanent collection.  Following your tour enjoy an artfully crafted lunch at the PMA’s Granite Hill Restaurant. After lunch take a tour of Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens located in Fairmount Park. Plus learn the history of tea while partaking in a tea tasting. Shofuso is a traditional Shoin-zukuri Japanese house with a teahouse and a Japanese garden located in the natural setting of Philadelphia’s West Fairmount Park. Standing in Philadelphia since 1958, it was initially called the Japanese Exhibition House and was designed by Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura as part of a series of model homes in the sculpture garden at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

**Shofuso is NOT handicap accessible – 

the tea tasting will require guests to sit on the floor for up to an hour.**

Reservations required by May 20.

Cost includes transportation, museum admission, lunch, and guided tour

*Should The Museum need to cancel any of the bus trips due to inclement weather, a full refund will be issued.