Press Releases

Friday
Jun182010

Announcing new tour times at Glencairn Museum!

Starting July 7, 2010

MWF 2:30 | Saturdays 1:00, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:00pm
Admission: $8 Adults, $6 Seniors (65+), $4 students (including college, with ID). Ask about group rates.

Take a guided tour of Glencairn, a museum of religious art housed in an historic home, at 2:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Guided tours are also available on Saturdays at 1:00, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:00pm. Tours last 90 minutes. Glencairn Museum presents religious life through the ages by means of a remarkable collection that illustrates religions as varied as ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek and Roman, medieval Christian, Islamic, Asian, and American Indian. Glencairn Museum is part of the Bryn Athyn Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. The guided tour includes an award-winning orientation video, a view from Glencairn’s Tower (one of the highest points in Montgomery County!), and visits to a variety of galleries and rooms, including the Master Bedroom and Bath.

Reservations strongly recommended. Call 267-502-2993 or email tours@glencairnmuseum.org to book your spot today!

Be sure to visit Cairnwood Estate and Bryn Athyn Cathedral while you are here. All three buildings are part of the Bryn Athyn Historic District.

Sunday
Mar192006

Marcantonio Barone and Wister Quartet return to Glencairn Museum

It’s an encore performance, of sorts, when a Grammy-nominated musical group returns to Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn March 19 for an astounding performance featuring pianist Marcantonio Barone and the works of Antonin Dvorak and Sir Edward Elgar. Established in 1987, Wister Quartet is the core group of the Philadelphia chamber ensemble “1807 & Friends” which performs at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts.

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Saturday
Mar112006

Glencairn Museum hosting Pennsylvania Youth Chorale

Three decades after she started it, Eileen Finley finds it astonishing her children’s choir is as popular today as the day the group hit its first note. “I never could have imagined this,” said Finley, artistic director of the Pennsylvania Youth Chorale. “All I was doing then was filling in a couple of requests for singing groups that came from a high school director and from kids. It turned into this wonderful organization.”

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