The Reading Public Museum is a museum in West Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum's permanent collection mainly focuses on art, science, and civilization. It also has a planetarium and a 25-acre (100,000 m²) arboretum.

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. (February 2022)

Reading Public Museum

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Location	West Reading, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°19′38.6″N 75°57′4.7″W

Collection

The museum's art collection contains works from many cultures but mainly focuses on European and American paintings and woodcuts. Its fine art collection includes more than seven hundred oil paintings by American and international artists. Works by Dale Chihuly[1] and Abraham P. Hankins[2] are in the museum's Modern and Contemporary holdings.

The museum's collection includes Nefrina, a mummy from the Ptolemaic period in ancient Egypt.[3]

The museum has a large collection of Pennsylvania German objects.[4]

See also

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

References

External links

• Official website
• Reading Public Museum within Google Arts & Culture
• Media related to Reading Public Museum at Wikimedia Commons