{"id":327474,"date":"2026-11-14T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/327474\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:38:53","slug":"norman-rockwell-n-c-wyeth-paintings-in-the-spotlight-in-reading-unscripted-column-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/327474\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth paintings in the spotlight in Reading [Unscripted column] | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 40 years ago, I was shopping in the Lehigh Valley Mall when I passed a store that featured artwork and other home decor.<\/p>\n

Next to the entrance was a framed poster that caused me instantly to tear up.<\/p>\n

It reminded me so much of my family, and my childhood, that it made me emotional.<\/p>\n

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It was Norman Rockwell\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning (Easter Sunday),\u201d and featured a mom, a boy and two girls dressed for church, walking behind a chair on which the dad slouched in his bathrobe and slippers, cigarette in hand, reading a section of the morning newspaper that was spread at his feet.<\/p>\n

That was my family \u2014 my mom, my sister, my brother and me heading for church, while my dad stayed home with the Sunday paper.<\/p>\n

\"Norman<\/p>\n

A May 16, 1959, Saturday Evening Post cover, featuring Norman Rockwell’s “Sunday Morning,” hangs in a Rockwell\/N.C. Wyeth exhibit in the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

MARY ELLEN WRIGHT | Staff<\/p>\n

I bought that framed poster on the spot, and it hung on the wood-paneled wall of my family\u2019s home until my parents had passed away. When I joined the Lancaster Sunday News staff in 1986, I saw that same print on the wall of my editor\u2019s office \u2014 because of the newspaper\u2019s prominent place in the image.<\/p>\n

I realized something through my engagement with that piece of artwork (and the coffee-table book of Rockwell\u2019s art I bought soon after the poster): An artist I had previously considered a journeyman illustrator for magazine covers could really stir up emotions with his work.<\/p>\n

I recently immersed myself in Rockwell\u2019s work \u2014 along with that of another early 20th-century rock-star illustrator (and Wyeth family patriarch), Newell Convers \u201cN.C.\u201d Wyeth \u2014 during my first trip to the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

The exhibit \u201cRockwell\/ Wyeth: Icons of Americana,\u201d features about 40 of the full-size paintings these two artists did so that the works could be reduced to the size of the frontispiece of a popular adventure novel (in Wyeth\u2019s case) or a Saturday Evening Post cover (in Rockwell\u2019s).<\/p>\n


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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Threading the Needle, 1922, oil on canvas, 34 x 28.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Wallace and the Children, 1921, oil on canvas, 39 x 44 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Young Girl with Coke, oil on canvas, 17 x 11 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

\"Liv<\/p>\n

Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Study for Which One? (Voting Booth), c. 1944, mixed media on paperboard, 20.5 x 16 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Till the Boys Come Home, 1918, oil on canvas, 29.5 x 23.5 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), The Silhouette, 1931, oil on canvas, 44 x 43.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 \u2013 1978), The Sneezing Spy, 1921, oil on canvas, 26.5 x 22 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

\"Liv<\/p>\n

Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Threading the Needle, 1922, oil on canvas, 34 x 28.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

\"Liv<\/p>\n

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), The Horse Fell with His Rider to the Bottom of the Cliff, c. 1927, oil on canvas, 40.25 x 30.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Prestongrange, 1924, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 33.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

\"Liv<\/p>\n

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Archers in Battle, 1922, oil on canvas, 42 x 29.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

\"Copy<\/p>\n

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Thorgunna, the Waif Woman, 1914, oil on canvas 44.25 x 32.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

\"Liv<\/p>\n

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882 \u2013 1945), Daniel Boone, The Home Seeker\u2014Cumberland Valley, 1936, oil on canvas, 30 x 41 inches, The Home Insurance Company calendar, 1938, also printed as Everett Webster Insurance calendar, Peterboro, NH, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Threading the Needle, 1922, oil on canvas, 34 x 28.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Wallace and the Children, 1921, oil on canvas, 39 x 44 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Young Girl with Coke, oil on canvas, 17 x 11 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Study for Which One? (Voting Booth), c. 1944, mixed media on paperboard, 20.5 x 16 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Till the Boys Come Home, 1918, oil on canvas, 29.5 x 23.5 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), The Silhouette, 1931, oil on canvas, 44 x 43.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 \u2013 1978), The Sneezing Spy, 1921, oil on canvas, 26.5 x 22 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Threading the Needle, 1922, oil on canvas, 34 x 28.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), The Horse Fell with His Rider to the Bottom of the Cliff, c. 1927, oil on canvas, 40.25 x 30.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Prestongrange, 1924, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 33.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Archers in Battle, 1922, oil on canvas, 42 x 29.75 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Thorgunna, the Waif Woman, 1914, oil on canvas 44.25 x 32.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882 \u2013 1945), Daniel Boone, The Home Seeker\u2014Cumberland Valley, 1936, oil on canvas, 30 x 41 inches, The Home Insurance Company calendar, 1938, also printed as Everett Webster Insurance calendar, Peterboro, NH, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n

Their works, including gallery rooms filled with 300 of Rockwell\u2019s Saturday Evening Post covers, are mounted on dark-cranberry-colored walls that somehow heighten the emotion of looking carefully at these two men\u2019s images.<\/p>\n

Rockwell and Wyeth were true storytellers through their art. In Wyeth\u2019s case, it was literal storytelling, illustrating such novels as \u201cTreasure Island,\u201d \u201cRobin Hood\u201d and \u201cRobinson Crusoe.\u201d Rockwell illustrated decades of American history \u2014 through wars and presidents and changing social movements \u2014 in his magazine covers.<\/p>\n

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At the Reading Public Museum, I talked with the curator, Scott Schweigert of Lititz, who said the exhibit \u201cpairs two of sort of arguably the most important American illustrators from the Golden Age. … It brings together sort of a focus on each of the artists individually, and sort of the parallels that their careers took in both print and national publications.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibit \u201ctries to frame their distinct styles, and in some cases, there\u2019s a little bit of crossover,\u201d Schweigert said. \u201cThere\u2019s a few Rockwells that look very much like Wyeth and vice versa … .<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Study for Which One? (Voting Booth), c. 1944, mixed media on paperboard, 20.5 x 16 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe think we know these artists, but this is an opportunity to sort of re-engage with them as fine artists and as illustrators,\u201d he said, and see \u201cjust how important these artists were. They showed up in people\u2019s mailboxes every week. More people saw illustrations by Rockwell and Wyeth than set foot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

They had a large audience, he noted, but were seen by some \u201cas sort of populist art. It was seen as not serious. But as you go through the show, I think you can see … just how sort of sensitively these things are painted,\u201d Schweigert said. \u201cWe hope that visitors will sort of walk away with a new understanding and a new appreciation of just how extraordinary they were as painters.\u201d<\/p>\n


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William Karaffa, “Seeking 969, oil on linen, 24 x 30 inches, copyright of the artist, courtesy of Allied Artists of America. The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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While you are at the Reading Public Museum for the Rockwell\/Wyeth exhibit, check out the 100 works by contemporary artists in the 113th annual Allied Artists of America show.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Torak, Still Life with Seascape, oil on linen, 20 x 24 inches, copyright of the artist, courtesy of Allied Artists of America.\u00a0The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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Steve Scheuring, Day After Christmas, oil on canvas, 37 x 37 inches, copyright of the artist, Courtesy of Allied Artists of America. The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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Michael Neal, Maine Summer, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, copyright of the artist, Courtesy of Allied Artists of America. The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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William Karaffa, “Seeking 969, oil on linen, 24 x 30 inches, copyright of the artist, courtesy of Allied Artists of America. The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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While you are at the Reading Public Museum for the Rockwell\/Wyeth exhibit, check out the 100 works by contemporary artists in the 113th annual Allied Artists of America show.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Torak, Still Life with Seascape, oil on linen, 20 x 24 inches, copyright of the artist, courtesy of Allied Artists of America.\u00a0The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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Steve Scheuring, Day After Christmas, oil on canvas, 37 x 37 inches, copyright of the artist, Courtesy of Allied Artists of America. The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

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Michael Neal, Maine Summer, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, copyright of the artist, Courtesy of Allied Artists of America. The Allied Artists exhibit is on view through Jan. 3 at the Reading Public Museum.<\/p>\n

Paintings, up close and personal<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a treat to see Wyeth\u2019s and Rockwell\u2019s original oil paintings in this exhibit, in their original large sizes, before they were shrunk down for book pages and magazine covers.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I had seen an exhibit of Wyeth\u2019s published works \u2014 illustrating novels and magazine stories \u2014 at the Brandywine Museum of Art, where they shared the building with art by N.C.\u2019s son, Andrew, and grandson, Jamie. That exhibit, and the Reading Museum one, reminded me just how cool it is to consume a book in which an artist\u2019s illustration makes you want to pause your reading and stare at it to help you immerse yourself in the world of the story.<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), Thorgunna, the Waif Woman, 1914, oil on canvas 44.25 x 32.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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Wyeth\u2019s impressionistic brush strokes, color choices and interesting compositions of human forms really drew me in at the Reading exhibit.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the eye-popping \u201cThorgunna, The Waif Woman,\u201d featuring a stern woman in a brightly colored dress, sitting in a Viking ship. It\u2019s a 1914 illustration for a Robert Louis Stevenson story in Scribner\u2019s Magazine.<\/p>\n

Long before Mel Gibson shouted \u201cFreedom\u201d in the film \u201cBraveheart,\u201d Wyeth painted William Wallace and his children \u2014 in kilts and feathered hats, one juggling a massive sword \u2014 descending an impressive stone staircase for Jane Porter\u2019s book \u201cThe Scottish Chiefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945), The Horse Fell with His Rider to the Bottom of the Cliff, c. 1927, oil on canvas, 40.25 x 30.25 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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I could feel the terror in the contorted limbs of a man and his horse \u2014 probably about to lose their lives \u2014 in Wyeth\u2019s \u201cThe Horse Fell with His Rider to the Bottom of the Cliff,\u201d an illustration for Jules Verne\u2019s book, \u201cMichael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar.\u201d Reins flying, the horse scatters bits of gravel as the two figures drop.<\/p>\n

One of my Rockwell favorites in the exhibit is a well-dressed man standing \u2014 with a quizzical look on his face \u2014 in a green-curtained voting booth for \u201cWhich One?\u201d It\u2019s a painted study for the final magazine cover, displayed next to it in the exhibit. Look carefully, and you\u2019ll see the man has a newspaper under his arm that shows his choice is between Thomas Dewey and Franklin Roosevelt for president.<\/p>\n

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Norman Rockwell ( American, 1894-1978), Young Girl with Coke, oil on canvas, 17 x 11 inches, \u00a9 2026 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery<\/p>\n

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For Life magazine in 1918, Rockwell captures the anxious looks and poses of four women in dresses, sitting on a rock overlooking water, in \u201cTill the Boys Come Home\u201d \u2014 a tribute to the women waiting on the home front of World War I.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fun to see an original painting and the Saturday Evening Post cover side by side in the exhibit, as in Rockwell\u2019s \u201cThreading the Needle.\u201d It\u2019s filled with little Rockwellian details: the man\u2019s tongue sticking out in concentration as he threads \u2014 a cat at his feet, a newspaper on his seat and the socks to be darned in his lap.<\/p>\n

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These are some of Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers displayed in the Reading Public Museum as part of a Rockwell\/N.C. Wyeth exhibit.<\/p>\n

MARY ELLEN WRIGHT | Staff<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time in the final rooms of the exhibit, poring over the Saturday Evening Post covers Rockwell had designed, which run from the 1910s to the 1960s. I could see the evolution of Rockwell\u2019s design style, along with the evolution of social norms and popular culture, throughout those decades.<\/p>\n

Plus, it\u2019s fascinating to see the famous names whose writing was included in those magazine editions, from novelist Edith Wharton to \u201cFrankenstein\u201d star Boris Karloff, and profiles of cultural and political figures from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper to Italian strongman Benito Mussolini to entertainer Jack Benny.<\/p>\n

\u201cShould Husbands be Baby Sitters?\u201d asks a 1947 cover, featuring a Rockwell painting of a family riding in the family car, bubblegum-chewing kids and a dog hanging out the window.<\/p>\n

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These are some of Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers displayed in the Reading Public Museum as part of a Rockwell\/N.C. Wyeth exhibit.<\/p>\n

MARY ELLEN WRIGHT | Staff<\/p>\n

Those covers \u2014 featuring families greeting soldiers home from wars or embracing car culture, and portraits of presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Kennedy \u2014 span my grandparents\u2019 lives, my parents\u2019 lives and my own early years in the 1950s and \u201960s. Rockwell always captured the Zeitgeist amid his sentimental portraits of everyday American life.<\/p>\n

Rockwell\u2019s paintings on these covers are, by turns, whimsical and serious: a little girl showing off her missing tooth on one magazine cover, and a diverse tableau of international figures of diverse races, creeds and nationalities, with the Golden Rule, \u201cDo unto others as you would have them do unto you,\u201d printed on another.<\/p>\n

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The arboretum around the Reading Public Museum is a great place for an autumn stroll on Oct. 21, 2026. Scupltures greet visitors along the path.<\/p>\n

MARY ELLEN WRIGHT | Staff<\/p>\n

And, of course, I spotted my familial figures again in \u201cSunday Morning,\u201d gracing the cover of a May 1959 edition of the magazine that contained \u201cA Warning to Young Men\u201d by CBS correspondent Eric Severeid. It was great to see these \u201cold friends\u201d again, while learning so many new things about two familiar, talented artists.<\/p>\n

IF YOU GO<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2022\u00a0What: \u201cRockwell\/ Wyeth: Icons of Americana\u201d exhibit. The exhibit was curated and organized by the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island, and the American Illustrators Gallery in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Where: Second floor galleries, Reading Public Museum, 500 Museum Road, Reading.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0When: The exhibit runs through Jan. 3. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Admission: $6-$14; small children free.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Additional attractions: The Neag Planetarium is next door to the museum, and offers rotating shows each day. Admission $6-$9, with small children free. The museum contains other art exhibits, plus natural history displays, including taxidermy animals and an Egyptian mummy. And, if it\u2019s a nice day, be sure to take a walk through the museum\u2019s arboretum on either side of Wyomissing Creek, and check out the sculptures along your path.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Information: readingpublicmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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