We're open Thursday - Sunday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM! Also, join us on weekends this holiday season for Santa Trolley!
Purchase tickets for just the Speakeasy portion of our celebration. Enjoy fine spirits, sweet treats, and live music in our Trolley Display Building!
Enjoy classic fair activities like face painting, balloon art, and performances from our magicians and street performers. We'll also have live music, food trucks, and booths from other local museums and community partners with fun for all ages!
Enjoy classic fair activities like face painting, balloon art, and performances from our magicians and street performers. We'll also have live music, food trucks, and booths from other local museums and community partners with fun for all ages!
This program from John Calnan will cover the history of the Philadelphia & Western Railroad and its successor operators, the Red Arrow Lines and SEPTA. In addition, slides will discuss scheduled service patterns, vehicles operated, track maps, signage, unique facts, and other interesting tidbits.
Calling all Homeschoolers: Join us for PTM’s Brick Club on Thursday, May 22nd from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM! Who can attend Brick Club? PTM’s Brick Club is designed for Homeschool students between the ages 6 – 14. Brick Club is for kids only! Parents, you can drop your child off at the Ray Betler Classroom a few minutes […]
Explore the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in a sensory modified setting with quieter streetcars, lowered exhibit sounds, and soft lighting. Advanced registration is not required for this event. Tickets will be available at our regular admission prices.
Come see dozens of vehicles including antique and classic cars, special use trucks, construction vehicles, and even some vintage boats on trailers!
Come see dozens of vehicles including antique and classic cars, special use trucks, construction vehicles, and even some vintage boats on trailers!
Our most popular camp is back again this summer: Join us for a week of LEGO® themed building challenges, artistic creations, and more! Explore the world of engineering while making models, investigate motion with cars and ziplines, then test out gears and simple machines. Create a brick self-portrait, then try painting with bricks! Design and […]
Explore the world of engineering and the forces of physics, then compete to build the tallest towers, longest bridges, and fastest vehicles. Design a paper airplane launcher, construct a working claw, and race through marble run mazes. Finish the week by building sets, props, and characters entirely out of LEGOs® to create a stop motion […]
Summer is here, and with it we've added additional times and dates to our Sensory Friendly Hour offerings. Explore the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in a sensory modified setting with quieter streetcars, lowered exhibit sounds, and soft lighting. Advanced registration is not required for this event. Tickets will be available at our regular admission prices. Adults: […]
Join us the third Thursday of each month for Trolley Tots! Trolley Tots is designed for early learners (children ages 2-5) and one accompanying adult to discover different types of transportation through sensory play, stories, crafts, music, and getting up-close with the vehicle of the month!
This program from John Calnan will cover the history of the Philadelphia & Western Railroad and its successor operators, the Red Arrow Lines and SEPTA. In addition, slides will discuss scheduled service patterns, vehicles operated, track maps, signage, unique facts, and other interesting tidbits.
Explore the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in a sensory modified setting with quieter streetcars, lowered exhibit sounds, and soft lighting. Advanced registration is not required for this event. Tickets will be available at our regular admission prices.
NEW CAMP! Step back into the past and discover what life was like over 150 years ago! Explore how people historically traveled long distances, such as with sailboats crossing the rivers and oceans, covered wagons traveling the Oregon Trail, and riding from the country into the big city aboard an electric streetcar. Play popular games […]
Join the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum for a special look behind the scenes! These tours are offered only a few times per year, so don't miss this chance to visit several of our non-public spaces, including the maintenance and restoration shop, car barn, and Artifact Preservation Building.
It’s full STEAM ahead in a camp dedicated to all things science, technology, engineering, art, and math! Design, build, and test the tallest towers, longest bridges, and strongest structures. Explore the history of transportation from trolleys and trains to boats, cars, and planes. Construct working circuits out of playdough, make a batch of streetcar slime, […]
Discover how science, history, and technology come together as we explore the past and plan for the future! Make a vegetable powered instrument, then design and build electrifying inventions for a new “Smart Streetcar” using Makey Makey technology. Whip up a fresh batch of conductive playdough, then explore solar-powered vehicles and renewable energy sources. Dive into computer […]
Join us the third Thursday of each month for Trolley Tots! Trolley Tots is designed for early learners (children ages 2-5) and one accompanying adult to discover different types of transportation through sensory play, stories, crafts, music, and getting up-close with the vehicle of the month!
Explore the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in a sensory modified setting with quieter streetcars, lowered exhibit sounds, and soft lighting. Advanced registration is not required for this event. Tickets will be available at our regular admission prices.
Part 1 will start in the 30's, with the idea of the Bridge Line, and go through PATCO's startup (1968) to around 1990.
Explore the world of engineering and the forces of physics, then compete to build the tallest towers, longest bridges, and fastest vehicles. Design a paper airplane launcher, construct a working claw, and race through marble run mazes. Finish the week by building sets, props, and characters entirely out of LEGOs® to create a stop motion […]
Summer is here, and with it we've added additional times and dates to our Sensory Friendly Hour offerings. Explore the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in a sensory modified setting with quieter streetcars, lowered exhibit sounds, and soft lighting. Advanced registration is not required for this event. Tickets will be available at our regular admission prices. Adults: […]
Our most popular camp is back again this summer: Join us for a week of LEGO® themed building challenges, artistic creations, and more! Explore the world of engineering while making models, investigate motion with cars and ziplines, then test out gears and simple machines. Create a brick self-portrait, then try painting with bricks! Design and […]
Ride in style to the Washington County Fair! Park in one of our three parking locations and then enjoy a trolley ride to the fairgrounds for $5 per passenger. Tickets also include admission to the Museum. Sponsored by Coen Markets.
