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2008 HARMONY MUSEUM EVENTS

Harmony Museum open year round.
Daily hours are from 1 to 4.
Closed Mondays and holidays.

Harmony Museum Gift Shop open year round.
Daily hours are from 12 to 4. Sundays 1 to 4.
Closed Mondays and holidays.

All events listed below are at the Harmony Museum’s Stewart Hall unless noted.

 

February 16, Harmony Museum’s 41st annual Harmoniefest fundraising dinner and historical program, 6 p.m., commemorates Harmony’s 1804 founding by German Lutheran Separatists and the February 1805 creation of their communal Harmony Society. Volunteers from Old Economy Village, the state-operated historic site at nearby Ambridge that commemorates the Harmony Society's third and final home (1824-1905), will model and describe clothing worn typically by 18th century residents of southwest Germany and the Harmony Society's members early in the 19th century. Reservations required. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. April 12, Harmony Museum German dinner, menu of traditional German foods. Diners may bring their own favorite beverage. 5-7 p.m. Reservations required. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. May 27, Harmony Museum’s annual "Quilt in a Day" program, 10 a.m.-Noon, presented by Patricia Knoechel, author and co-author of quilting books with sister and internationally syndicated television quilter Eleanor Burns. Reservations recommended. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. June 14, Harmony Museum Herb & Garden Fair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the museum's historic 1805 barn annex on Mercer Road to exchange plants or buy from specialty vendors. Lunch available. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. August 9, Harmony Museum’s annual Antique Gun Show in Stewart Hall, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. See flintlock, percussion and cartridge firearms and accouterments made before 1898, many for sale, with special focus on those made in the region such as the fine longrifles of Harmony's Charles Flowers. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. August 16, Harmony Museum German dinner, menu of traditional German foods. Diners may bring their own favorite beverage. 5-7 p.m. Reservations required. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. October 11, Harmony Museum German dinner, menu of traditional German foods. Diners may bring their own favorite beverage. 5-7 p.m. Reservations required. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. November 15-16, Harmony Museum’s 11th annual WeihnachtMarkt (German style Christmas Market) at which regional artisans and other vendors present a taste of German holiday season tradition by offering memorable shopping for quality artwork, handcrafted goods, toys and other wares as well as German imports. Related activities throughout the National Historic Landmark, founded in 1804, including several antique and specialty shops. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. Nov. 29: Washington Mission Commemoration. Hike with Maj. George Washington and guide Christopher Gist to site of Lenni Lenape (Delaware) village Murdering Town while learning about Washington's 1753 mission to order French from British-claimed territory, precipitating the French & Indian War. The war's first shot, fired at Washington by a "French Indian" several miles to the east, missed its mark. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Contact museum for program location and hours: 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. December 14, Harmony Museum’s annual Candlelight Christmas. Tour Christmas-decorated museum buildings 4-8 p.m.; enjoy an elegant dinner, served 5-7 p.m., that requires reservations and includes tour admission. National Historic Landmark town center glows with luminaries after sunset. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87-88 about 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org. December 31, Harmony Museum offers tours, a pork and sauerkraut buffet dinner, the comedy short "Dinner for One" that's a New Year's Eve tradition in Germany, and Bleigiessen -- melted lead shapes predict what the new year may bring -- as Harmony recognizes its important German heritage with a family-oriented New Year's Eve celebration on German time. Museum activities 3-5:30 p.m., dining room opens 4:30 p.m. Celebrants welcome 2009 with fireworks at 6 p.m. -- midnight in Germany, where New Year's Eve is called Silvester for St. Silvester's feast day. Pacifist Lutheran Separatists from rural areas near Stuttgart founded Harmony in 1804 and organized as the communal Harmony Society. 888-821-4822, hmuseum@zoominternet.net, www.harmonymuseum.org.