Family & Friends Overnight Youth Campout

Wonderful learning experience at the Mercer Museum near New Years Day. Starting with the Doan Gang exhibit, we were highly impressed with the quality of the artifact displays, lighting, and encouraging interactions. Pleased we witnessed before its independence. Whether your interest is architecture or the tools of the trades, you won't be disappointed. The primary displays are an amazing collection of tools with detail-focused signage for naming and explaining. We spent 2.5 hours ensuring to look in all the corners for unexpected hallways, stairs, rooms, windows, etc. The building alone is fascinating in construction and design with almost intentional placement of largest and heaviest items on the higher floors. Don'tskip or miss anything. Each floor is unique in layout. Accolades to the organization for the kids focus room for all its thoughtful interactions. Best when empty so that you can explore as a kid too. Unexpectedly amazing. We left learned, tired, fascinated, satisfied, and knowing we will return and recommend.

Absolutely a one-of-a-kind experience that you don't typically find... anywhere? Its amazing to to see the collections in a place where the building itself adds to the experience. Visually impressive just walking into the atrium for the first time, but you can stay for hours peeing back the layers of intricacies.

While visiting family in Pennsylvania, we went to visit the Mercer Museum. During our visit they had the Doan Gang Exhibit. It was very interesting learning how some people viewed the Doan Gang and to read about the history behind them. After the exhibit we started walking through the rest of the museum. I didn’t realize how big it was. I was very surprised (in awe) by all the different items that had been collected throughout the years. So much history sitting in that museum. If you have a chance to visit, definitely add this to the list.

This is a must see if you are in the historic Doylestown area. Henry Mercer's incredible collection of historical items will make you feel like you stepped into a time machine. The building was built to house this massive collection, so if you like history, you will enjoy this museum very much!

I went here when Fonthill Castle was sold out for the day. I didn’t really understand what this museum was, prior to visiting. The bottom floor featured an exhibit about a gang of thieves during the Revolutionary War. Other floors featured an exhaustive collection of tools and machines; tools for milling, for shearing and spinning, for pressing cider, for carving, for slaughter and prepping meat… Cast iron stoves and grates, stagecoaches, baskets and guns. And a surprise gallows, accompanied by a hearse and casket.. It’s… A lot. It’s interesting, but the energy attached to some of these objects is so dark… Add in the circuitous, maze-like floors and endless stairs with hidden nooks… It’s an experience, for sure, but not the one I was looking for during the holidays when I visited. Fonthill Castle was simultaneously featuring an estate decked out for the holidays with a variety of Christmas trees on-display, but since you couldn’t visit without a pre-booked, timed ticket, and their website didn’t show tickets had sold out prior to our arrival, we weren’t admitted. It’s also ridiculous that Fonthill Castle/Mercer Museum are partner sites and Moravian Tile & Pottery is on the Fonthill’s grounds, all three sites charge full price to attend, separately. So if you want to walk across the parking lot from Fonthill to Moravian, it’ll cost you another $17 on top of the $20 you’ve just paid for Fonthill. And if you want to see the Mercer, another $20. A bit of gouging, in my opinion.