“Baked into Bethlehem” is a celebration of baking across two museums.<\/p>\n
Mark Steigelman is the Director of Collections and Programming at Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites as well as the curator of the exhibition.<\/p>\n
Steigelman says visitors can start their exploration over in the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem to learn “the whole Moravian history of baking.”<\/p>\n
Then, just a few blocks away, see the Kemerer Museum, one of the Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites.<\/p>\n
“We have the bakery section with all sorts of ephemera and machines of baking,” he says.<\/p>\n
One of those machines is the Colborne pie dough rolling machine.<\/p>\n
It’s on loan from Richard Groman, Jr. He’s giving tours to share stories about his grandfather’s once iconic bakery, where he and his father, Richard Groman, Sr., also worked through the years.<\/p>\n
“It was Ezra D. Groman Bakeries, and it was started about 1926, 1927,” says Groman, Jr.<\/p>\n
A lot of artifacts from the bakery are also on view.<\/p>\n
“We made Moravian Sugar Cake, which was famous,” he says.<\/p>\n
The bakery also made a lot of Pennsylvania Dutch items too.<\/p>\n
“They were the go-to place to get all cakes,” says Steigelman.<\/p>\n
Next, is a section on ‘Domestic Play,’ with ovens for kids, starting in the 1920s. There is also an array of Easy-Bake Ovens from 1963 up until the turn of this last century.<\/p>\n
In ‘Home Is Where the Hearth Is,’ you’re immersed in a 1930s kitchen.<\/p>\n
“This Hoosier cabinet was in my family,” says Steigelman. “They were like the cooking center of the kitchen.”<\/p>\n
There’s also a Krispy Krust rolling pin, along with antique refrigerators.<\/p>\n
“We have recipes on those refrigerators with magnets,” he says. “And we’re also inviting people from the community, bring your recipe and put it on the refrigerator.”<\/p>\n
And you can include it in the StoryCorps Archive.<\/p>\n
“People will be able to record their histories of their fond memories of baking as children, family recipes,” he says. “And that gets put into the Library of Congress.”<\/p>\n
Visitors can also register for the upcoming “Baked into Bethlehem” Baking Challenge in April.<\/p>\n
“There’s something for everyone here,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Baked into Bethlehem” is on view through July 26, 2026, at the Kemerer Museum and the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
For more information:<\/p>\n
Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites<\/a> Kemerer Museum Moravian Museum of Bethlehem
Link to Tickets for “Baked into Bethlehem” Exhibition<\/a>
Sign up for Tour with Richard Groman, Jr. <\/a>
Participate in the StoryCorps Archive<\/a>
Register for the “Baked into Bethlehem” Baking Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n
427 N. New Street Bethlehem, Pa. 18018<\/p>\n
66 W. Church Street Bethlehem, Pa. 18018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Baked into Bethlehem” is a celebration of baking across two museums. Mark Steigelman is the Director of Collections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,43568,13875,966,64004,64003,64002,64005,30702],"class_list":["post-139549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-ezra-d-groman-bakeries","tag-historic-bethlehem-museums-sites","tag-jr","tag-kemerer-museum","tag-mark-steigelman","tag-moravian-museum","tag-richard-groman","tag-sr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}