Very interesting museum about historical tools, aids, all crafts; Household supplies, agricultural harvesting equipment and means of transport. There are also tiles and majolica produced by the museum founder. The whole thing is presented in a spectacular early concrete building, similar to a castle.Be sure to visit!
January 2024
Very interesting and historical. Great follow up to Fonthill
December 2023
A simply engrossing museum about the instruments used by mankind, especially in the building of America. Most museums answer the question "who built this country?", while the Mercer Museum answers the question "how did we build this Republic?"
The Mercer Museum is a six-story reinforced concrete castle designed by Henry Mercer (1856-1930) and completed in 1916. Today, it is one of Bucks County’s premier cultural attractions and a Smithsonian affiliate.
The museum complex features local and national traveling exhibits, as well as a core museum collection of over 50,000 pre-Industrial tools. This permanent collection offers visitors a unique window into pre-Industrial America through sixty different crafts and trades, and is one of the world’s most comprehensive portraits of pre-Industrial American material culture. The museum also features a research library that is a center for local history related to Bucks County and the surrounding region.
