our galleries: arts and humanities | natural history and science
Arts and Humanities
The Everhart Museum exhibits world-class art created by artists from around the world throughout time, fulfilling its mission to facilitate a deeper connection between the communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania and beyond, and the world around them.
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Dorflinger Glass Gallery
During the 1950s, the Everhart began collecting glass that reflected nearly 15 centuries of glassmaking. The Museum added to this collection by acquiring a large selection of Dorflinger Glass wares in the 1960s, and opened the permanent Dorflinger Glass Gallery in 1969. Dorflinger Glass, which began operation in 1865, was long located in White Haven, PA and became one of the most important glass works in the country, requested by the Lincoln White House, Benjamin Harrison White House, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Whitneys, Pierces, West Point Military Academy, and more.
The Everhart’s permanent Dorflinger Glass Gallery reopened in 2023 following an extensive reinstallation, completed with assistance from Dorflinger Factory Museum President, CEO, and Founder Jim Asselstine and Curator Kurt Reed.
This new installation traces the chronology of Dorflinger Glass as represented in the Everhart’s collection and features remarkable pieces from the Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Harrison White Houses, as well as renowned glass colored by Honesdale Decorating Company in Honesdale, PA from 1901 to 1915.
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Main Gallery
The Main Gallery serves both as a space to showcase the diverse, expansive collections of art the Museum has amassed since its founding in 1908, and as the location for large-scale temporary exhibitions.
Artwoven by Hand: The Work of Peg McDade (1937-2025) is on view in the Main Gallery through November 30. The exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of Peg McDade, a master fiber artist, devoted educator, and treasured friend. Born in Scranton, Peg devoted her life to the tactile beauty of weaving, felting, and dyeing, infusing every creation with heart and craftsmanship.
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Founder’s Gallery
The Founder’s Gallery showcases the life of Museum founder Dr. Isaiah F. Everhart (1840–1911), tracing his life from his beginnings in rural Southeastern Pennsylvania, through his career as a surgeon in the Civil War, to his settling in Scranton and establishment of the Museum that bears his name.
Dr. Everhart’s story is told in his own words taken from journal entries; through objects from the Museum’s collection, including the many taxidermy specimens he completed; and through rarely seen photos from the Museum’s archives.
This gallery is made possible through a generous gift from the Munley Family and Munley Law, in memory of Robert W. Munley.
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Folk Art Gallery
The Everhart Museum’s American Folk Art Gallery is a snapshot of one of the finest American folk art collections. Folk Art: By People, For People, the first exhibition in the re-established Gallery, celebrates the role folk art had in the lives of the people who created and enjoyed it. Artists without academic training created these pieces to serve practical family needs; mark religious and cultural occasions; stand as remembrances of loved ones; provide comfort and enjoyment; facilitate trade; and more, both reflecting and enhancing the human experience.
In many quarters, folk art remains viewed as untrained and naive, visionary but not real art. Folk art remains true to its creative vein: it is expressive, emotional, elegant, symbolic, and often expertly crafted. It stands as a pure, unadulterated expression of emotion, unfettered by the ideals of academic art.
The re-establishment of the Everhart’s American Folk Art Gallery in 2023 was made possible by a generous gift from the Oppenheim Family, which also supports continued care for the American folk art collection.
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Works on Paper Gallery
The Works on Paper Gallery features selections from the rich collection of ink sketches, charcoal drawings, engravings, etches, photographs, and more in the Everhart’s holdings, which comprises hundreds of works.
Through spring 2025, Milton Avery: Black and White highlights the work of one of America’s most prominent colorists and modern artists, focusing on his monotone etchings. These pieces reflect the same adherence to the simple forms that have made Avery's paintings staples in museums worldwide. This series presents the artist in a different light, yet offers the same radical simplicity in his compositions.
This gallery is sponsored by John A. Farkas in loving memory of Nancy S. Farkas and John Anthony Farkas, Jr.
Natural History and Science
The Everhart provides of a snapshot of the natural world of the present and the past, locally, regionally, nationally, and globally, through its immense collections of fossils, taxidermy, rocks, and minerals. It was Dr. Everhart’s own assemblage of taxidermied birds as well as other mounted animals and natural history specimens that formed the foundation of the Museum’s original collection in 1908. Many of his own specimens are on view today, over a century later.
The natural history and science galleries include the Rocks and Minerals Gallery, the Fossil Gallery, and the Bird Gallery, which in addition to over 600 preserved birds also contains a selection on mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE
Fossil Gallery
The Fossil Gallery includes fossil specimens from millions of years ago, spanning the Cambrian to the Quaternary period; fossil casts of prehistoric animals, including a fully articulated casts of Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex skull; artwork depicting dinosaurs and Ice Age mammals by Charles Robert Knight.; and more.
Many specimens have been collected regionally, as Northeastern Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal deposits, formed from Pennsylvanian Period swamps that existed roughly 300 million years ago, are a trove of prehistoric fossils.
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Rocks and Minerals
The Rocks and Minerals Gallery features a fluorescent rocks and minerals case; a variety of regionally-collected rocks and minerals; educational exhibits highlighting rock and mineral properties and origins; and a showcase of exceptional specimens collected both locally and from around the world.
Learn about how fluorescence works to produce vibrant colors, how different types of rock form on and beneath the Earth’s surface, what makes minerals fracture and cleave in specific patterns, why Pennsylvania is a trove for mineral collecting, and much more! Current exhibits include Types of Rocks; Fluorescent Rocks and Minerals; Pennsylvania Rocks and Minerals; Mineral Properties; and the regularly-changing Rocks and Minerals Showcase.
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