The State Museum of Pennsylvania

The State Museum of Pennsylvania demonstrates that Pennsylvania's story is America's story.

Curiosity Connection and the Planetarium are currently open, during regular business hours, for Members only. Curiosity Connection and the Planetarium will reopen to the general public July 1, 2022.

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Witness to History

Governor Tom Ridge with Pennsylvania National Guard Commander William Lynch and State Police Commissioner Paul Evanko in the meadow at Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, near Shanksville. Courtesy of the Thomas J. and Michele Ridge Archives at Mercyhurst University.

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