Outreach Program

Feed Your Imagination with Reading Public Museum’s Outreach Programs



We’re taking The Museum to you! From the mysteries of The Museum’s mummy to the timeless beauty of the art of Venice, the Reading Public Museum has outreach presentations for groups and organizations throughout Berks County and beyond.

These lifelong learning presentations are informative, educational and fun. Now high schools, colleges, churches, retirement organizations, service clubs and others can enjoy the treasures of the Reading Public Museum’s world class collections in their own community. In addition, special packages are available that can combine any of these presentations with tours of The Museum’s extensive collections, Arboretum and Planetarium.



Community Outreach Presentations

  • The Entrepreneurial Artist: John James Audubon and The Birds of America
  • Mischievous Angels, Dancing Saints—A Traveler’s Guide to the Art of Rome and Venice
  • From Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams: Masters of American Photography
  • The People’s Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto and the Art of the Renaissance
  • Keith Haring and the Journey of the Radiant Baby
  • My Dinner with Dale: Designing the Dale Chihuly Celebration in Glass exhibition at the Reading Public Museum
  • A Gathering of Light: The Pennsylvania Impressionists
  • I Must Go Down to the Sea: Seascapes and Marine Paintings
  • Enduring Beauty: Treasures of the Reading Public Museum
  • Secrets of the Shamans: Mysteries of pre-Columbian Art

Cost: $75 per presentation
45 minutes in length



Half-hour Presentations Designed for Community Service Clubs or Groups

  • From the Mummy to the Mayans: Rediscovering the Reading Public Museum
  • Treasures of the Reading Public Museum

Cost: $50 per presentation



Museum Tours by the Director

  • The Treasures of the Reading Public Museum: A Behind the Scenes Tour
  • The Search for the Sacred: A Sunday School Tour
  • Pastoral: Pleasures of the Art of the Landscape
  • The Tulip and the Unicorn: The Flowering of the Pennsylvania German Folk Art Tradition

Custom tours can be tailored to your group’s interest

Cost: $75 per tour
Length of Tour: 1 hour

To schedule a presentation call The Museum’s executive assistant, Sherry Ritchey, at 371-5850 x224, or e-mail her directly at sherry.ritchey@readingpublicmuseum.org. The Outreach presentations are in either PowerPoint or slide projector and require a screen.