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Lancaster, PA · 38 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Hands-on House is a nonprofit children's museum on Landis Valley Road in Lancaster, PA, built for children ages 2 to 10, with indoor play exhibits and an outdoor adventure garden.
Malvern, PA · 51 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Wharton Esherick Museum is the preserved hilltop studio and home of the American artist Wharton Esherick in Malvern, PA, a National Historic Landmark seen by reserved guided tour only.
West Chester, PA · 52 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The American Helicopter Museum & Education Center is a rotorcraft museum in West Chester, PA, with what the museum counts as over forty helicopters, gyroplanes and convertiplanes on display.
Oaks, PA · 52 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The American Treasure Tour Museum is a pop culture museum in Oaks, PA, a 100,000 square foot indoor showcase of band organs, animatronics, toys and classic cars seen from a guided tram.
Allentown, PA · 55 minutes from Reading · Free
The Allentown Art Museum is a free art museum in Allentown, PA. Its galleries hold Italian, Dutch, Flemish and German paintings from the 1300s to 1700s, American art from the 1700s to the present, and a 1915 Frank Lloyd Wright library.
Allentown, PA · 55 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
America On Wheels is a transportation museum in Allentown, PA, with rare vehicles and hands-on exhibits in its galleries.
Columbia, PA · 56 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The National Watch & Clock Museum is a museum of timekeeping in Columbia, PA, run by the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, with more than 13,000 timepieces in its collection.
Allentown, PA · 57 minutes from Reading · Free
The Mack Trucks Historical Museum is a nonprofit museum of Mack truck history in Allentown, PA, with guided tours three days a week and self-guided weekends.
Chadds Ford, PA · 1 hour 6 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Brandywine Museum of Art is an art museum in Chadds Ford, PA, centered on the Wyeth family and American art, with the N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth studios and Kuerner Farm open by guided tour.
Bethlehem, PA · 1 hour 6 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The National Museum of Industrial History is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Bethlehem, PA, set in the former Electric Repair Shop of the Bethlehem Steel plant.
Hershey, PA · 1 hour 11 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Hershey Story is a museum about Milton S. Hershey and the town that bears his name, on Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, PA.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 15 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Please Touch Museum is a children's museum in Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA. The museum says it is best for children from about six months through age 8, with a carousel on the main level.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 16 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum at the top of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, PA. It is open five days a week, with Friday evenings running until 8:45 PM.
Hershey, PA · 1 hour 17 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
America's Transportation Experience is the AACA Museum's transportation museum in Hershey, PA: 71,000 square feet of cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles, including the Cammack Tucker Collection.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 17 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Barnes Foundation is an art museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, PA. It holds the collection Dr. Albert C. Barnes assembled from 1922, hung in wall ensembles kept exactly as he left them.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 18 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Mütter Museum is a museum of medical history at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on South 22nd Street in Philadelphia, PA. The site says 18 percent of its collection is human remains.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 19 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The National Constitution Center is a museum about the U.S. Constitution at 525 Arch Street in Philadelphia, PA, near Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 19 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Penn Museum is the University of Pennsylvania's museum of archaeology and anthropology in Philadelphia, PA, just off the South Street Bridge and a short walk from 30th Street Station.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 20 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is a mosaic art environment on South Street in Philadelphia, PA, created by artist Isaiah Zagar, with an outdoor sculpture garden and two indoor galleries.
Wilmington, DE · 1 hour 21 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Delaware Children's Museum is a hands-on children's museum on the Riverfront in Wilmington, DE, built for families with young children.
Bryn Athyn, PA · 1 hour 21 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Glencairn Museum is an art museum in the Pitcairn family's former castle home in Bryn Athyn, PA, with galleries on ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, Asia, indigenous America and New Church art.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 22 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Independence Seaport Museum is a maritime museum on the Delaware River waterfront in Philadelphia, PA, with two historic ships moored outside: the cruiser Olympia and the submarine Becuna.
Philadelphia, PA · 1 hour 22 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Museum of the American Revolution is a history museum at Third and Chestnut streets in Old City Philadelphia, PA, steps from Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
Doylestown, PA · 1 hour 29 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Mercer Museum is a six-story reinforced concrete castle in Doylestown, PA, completed by Henry Mercer in 1916 to hold his collection of pre-industrial American tools.
Doylestown, PA · 1 hour 30 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Michener Art Museum is an art museum in Doylestown, PA, built around a collection of Pennsylvania Impressionism, with touring exhibitions and art outdoors on its grounds.
Doylestown, PA · 1 hour 30 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The TileWorks is the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, the tile factory Henry Chapman Mercer built in 1911 and 1912 in Doylestown, PA, where craftsmen still turn Bucks County clay into Mercer tiles.
New Hope, PA · 1 hour 44 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Bucks County Children's Museum is a hands-on museum in New Hope, PA, built for children from 12 months (walking) up to 7 years.
Baltimore, MD · 2 hours 21 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Port Discovery Children's Museum is a three-floor children's museum at 35 Market Place in Baltimore, MD, built for kids under 10.
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