What's New at the Taber Museum?
The Tumbleweed Trio appeared for a special Sunday afternoon performance at the Taber Museum on March 30, 2025
The Taber Museum is playing host to a most unusual visitor- an exotic ‘Voodoo Lily’.
This fundraiser sponsored by The First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania raised funds for the Taber Museum on March 12-13.
The Taber Museum was pleased to host Dr. Christopher Pearl, on his recently-published book Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution (The Revolutionary Age).
The 2025 Richard L. and Miriam L. Swan Mix Student Historian Award competition invites seniors attending schools in Lycoming County to submit an essay in which the student selects a time period from one of the displays at the Taber Museum and becomes a person who lived at that time in history. The winner will be awarded a cash prize of $500.
The votes are in! Voted as the favorite was the Black Fuzzy Wuzzy Teddy Bear. See more of the 2024 holiday exhibit, ‘Spirit of Love’: Teddies at the Taber.
The Taber Museum was voted the Williamsport Sun-Gazette's Reader's Choice award for best museum in 2024
An annual tradition continues with the Taber Museum Christmas Coffee Hour
Matt Stackhouse and David Richards spoke about their recent book, "Ghost on the Allegheny: Dr. Howard M. Essick and the Hotel Essick, 1889- 1916" at the October 2024 Society Event.
The Taber Museum Recently Hosted Richard Sprout, speaking on the History of Picture Rocks.
The Taber Museum Recently Hosted local author Tom Rich, who spoke his book, Railroads and Railroaders: East and West, The History of Lines That Operated in Central Pennsylvania
Meg Geffken, appearing as the historical character ‘Betsy Ross’ spoke at the Taber Museum's September Coffee Hour.
The eleventh version of the Taber Museum's Bottles & Brews fundraiser drew a huge crowd on August 9, 2024.
The 2024 Taber Museum day camp immersed kids in our colonial history, focusing on the people and culture of folks living in the colonial era.
The Taber Museum hosted local singer/songwriter Scott Schell at our Society Program on Sunday, July 21, 2024. He performed for a large crowd.
The Taber Museum hosted a garden party at the Rosenthal home on July 12.
Fifty museum goers traveled with the Taber Museum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on June 14th.
The Taber Museum recently introduced its digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, a free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The app makes the museum accessible for either on-site or off-site visits through photo, audio and video formats. Twenty-four students in a Technical and Professional Communication class taught by Andrea M. Campbell performed research, asset gathering and inventory management to aid the museum in displaying its exhibits.
The Taber Museum hosted Shannon Jones at its Society Program on June 16, 2024. In 2019, she released her book on Susquehanna Lore, about the folklore and history of the Susquehanna River and Valley.
The Taber Museum hosted baseball historian Lou Hunsinger, Jr. at its June Coffee Hour, who spoke on the topic of ‘The Negro Leagues: Respect & Recognition’.