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When fine art is shipped from one museum to another, considerably more precautions are involved than draping the work in a towel and wedging it in the back seat.

Trudy's Garden was dedicated almost 20 years ago as a place of tranquility in the arboretum near the Reading Public Museum. What groundskeepers discovered Monday morning was anything but tranquil.

We like the confusion. It gets our brains moving. Brown led the way through one of the many mazes you'll find on the museum's third floor. The latest exhibit, Mazes & Brain Games, takes up a bit of floor space.

A popular children's television host who called Berks County home has died. Eugene Yulish, better known to TV viewers as Gene London, died in Reading on Sunday, according to an obituary published Tuesday. He was 88 years old.

The Reading Public Museum is exploding with challenging experiences that propel visitors of all ages down paths of mystifying illusions and mind-boggling puzzles in the new exhibition, Mazes & Brain Games.

SCIENCE, ILLUSIONS, AND MORE AT THE MUSEUM New exhibition, Mazes & Brain Games, opens January 18 The Reading Public Museum is exploding with challenging experiences that propel visitors of all ages down paths of mystifying illusions and mind-boggling puzzles in...

Many New Year's Eve celebrations will last late into the night, but not everyone can stay up late. A few places in Berks County held special afternoon celebrations so that kids could take part in welcoming 2020. Ralph Kabakoff spent the morning with his son and daughter at the Reading Public Museum, making hats and having fun.

This month, I thought it might be fun to mix it up a little and interview Scott Schweigert, curator of art at the Reading Public Museum and creator of the groundbreaking exhibition Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens, on view at the Appleton from November 2nd through January 5th.

Drawn mostly from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, this exhibition explores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century in France. The show examines the sometimes complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 80s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.

Penn State Health and Highmark sign multi-year agreement with Reading Public Museum Joint sponsorship will support educational and cultural programming, including school programs at Neag Planetarium and RPM’s premiere exhibitions 2020-22 NOVEMBER 4 — Penn State...