Adult and Family Programs from the Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum

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Education - Adults and Families

The Quilt & Textile Museum and Heritage Center of Lancaster County are dedicated to the concept of lifelong learning, recognizing that people of all ages benefit from museums and their collections.

Cool Experiential Programs

Would you like to use crime scene tools to examine antiques for authenticity, talk to a textile demonstrator as they stitch a quilt or weave a masterpiece, or become a muralist for a day? You can do all this and more. Download the PDF that interests you:

Crime Scene Tools

Stitching and Weaving

Muralist for a Day

Our programs for adults include lectures, bus trips to other regional museums and gardens, intensive workshops resulting in the production of a craft and regular demonstrations.

Families will love our new walking tour.

New Family Walking Tour

Meet four fictional families who could have called Lancaster home, each with their own time period. Visit the places where each family may have lived, worked, socialized and gone to school. Engage in the issues that were on their minds. Do all of this for $1.00, tax included.

The Heritage Center's new walking tour is actually four tours in one booklet. With four different time periods and four families, there's something for everyone.

Perfectly designed for families, the tours provide information about each historic site and then ask visitors to look for things on or around the site and to think about what was going on at each place. Whether you are visiting Lancaster for the first time or a life-long resident, you will enjoy this tour and learn a few new things about the city.

The tour booklet is available at the Heritage Center Museum Store (7 West King Street) and the Quilt & Textile Museum Store (37 N. Market Street). They also can be purchased at Isaac's Deli, downtown location (25 N. Queen Street).

Other Adult and Family Workshops, Artist Workshops, Demonstrations and More...

Visit our Events Calendar for the full slate of programs.

Business Supporters of the Heritage Center's Educational Programs

The Heritage Center of Lancaster County is the grateful recipient of donations under the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program. To date, in 2008, the Heritage Center has received donations from Fulton Bank, Lift, Inc. and Capital Blue Cross. These donations total $11,000.

The EITC Program enables businesses to receive tax credits for their donations to approved non-profit organizations. The Heritage Center is approved as an Educational Improvement Organization because of the outstanding quality of its educational programs. The Heritage Center offers numerous programs that directly benefit students and teachers in southcentral Pennsylvania . These programs include school visits to the Heritage Center 's two museums in downtown Lancaster : The Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum and the Heritage Center Museum . Other programs are offered in the form of presentations made in the classroom by museum educators, kits offered for in-classroom use and professional development workshops for teachers on topics related to local history.

Businesses desiring more information about potential donations under the EITC Program are encouraged to contact the Heritage Center or the program's website: http://www.newpa.com/find-and-apply-for-funding/funding-and-program-finder/funding-detail/index.aspx?progId=62 .

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