Currently, we have nine permanent exhibits open to the public:

NEW FAMILY GALLERY GUIDE!
Due to the popularity of our Centennial Scavenger Hunt, the Everhart has put together its first gallery guide, designed with our most curious visitors in mind! Let color lead you around the galleries, observe things you may have previously walked by, and have fun! Available at the front desk, or log on to www.everhart-museum.org to print here before you visit!
The Color Guide



Installation view of the Bird Gallery
THE BIRD GALLERY
The museum's permanent display of the ornithological collection includes a selection of the 2,300 birds acquired through the Museums founder, Dr. Everhart and his colleague Colonel L.A. Watres, as well as four dioramas showing area birds and animals in their natural settings. Most of the birds on display are from North America including water birds, such as ducks, geese, and loons; shore birds like the sandpiper and plover; land birds such as pheasants, grouse, and partridges; a wide variety of birds of prey including eagles, hawks, owls and falcons; and a myriad of song birds and woodpeckers. Extinct and endangered species of birds such as the Passenger Pigeon, Whooping Crane, and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker are also featured. The display also includes many exotic birds such as peacocks, birds of paradise, and parrots from South America, India, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.


Installation view of the Life Though Time Gallery

LIFE THROUGH TIME
Fossilized specimens from the Cambrian through Quaternary periods, including casts of a fully articulated Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus Rex head are on display.


Installation view of the Folk Art Gallery

AMERICAN FOLK ART
This gallery highlights the Museum's Folk Art collection, including mourning pictures, frakturs, weathervanes and portraits.


Installation view of the Everhart Around The World Gallery

EVERHART AROUND THE WORLD
Presents and interprets a selection of objects in the Everhart Museum's collection from the cultures and civilizations of ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, native North America, and Papua New Guinea. These different societies existed apart in time and space, but all created profound material cultures that reveal how the people lead their lives and the ideas, practices, and traditions that were important to them. These objects are presented as historical artifacts, removed from their original contexts, yet preserved in the Everhart's collection and interpreted with as much information as possible to illustrate the existence of the people who lived with them.


Installation view of the African Gallery

AFRICA IN A NEW LIGHT
Twelve of Africa’s 54 nations and 18 of the hundreds of different cultural groups in Africa are represented in the gallery.


Installation view of the Main Gallery

FINE ART
Exceptional examples of American art from 1800 - 2000 are on display, including Thomas Cole, John Frederick Kensett, Violet Oakley, Robert Henri, Raphael Soyer, John Willard Raught, and Hope Horn.


A view of one case in the Decorative Arts Gallery

DECORATIVE ARTS
This gallery includes the Museum's Dorflinger glass collection and other types of decorative and functional items from America, Europe and Asia.


Installation view of the Rocks and Minerals Gallery

ROCKS AND MINERALS GALLERY
The Rocks & Minerals Gallery reinterprets and presents a new and improved version of the “Rocks Room,” a well-known and beloved exhibit that was retired more than a decade ago. Created in the 1950s, the original “Rocks Room” was a small closet gallery featuring “glow-in-the-dark” rocks. It was a must-see experience for children from throughout Northeast Pennsylvania who visited during the 1960s and 1970s, and remained the most popular element of the Museum into the 1980s. The reopening of this permanent gallery features rocks, minerals and fluorescent minerals in the Everhart Museum collection.


Installation view of Visible Storage Room

VISIBLE STORAGE ROOM
It is not uncommon for museums to only have 20 percent of their permanent collection on display at any point in time, and the rest resides out of the public eye in the storage areas. In order to provide our patrons with a glimpse at the depth of our collection, the Visible Storage Room mirrors the behind-the-scenes storage areas of the museum. In this room is a broad cross section of objects from many aspects of the collection, some of which have not been on view for many years, including selections from the natural history, ethnographic, and visual arts collections. The display is unlike others at the museum, with works densely packed in categories of medium and type, just as they would appear in our storage area. The Visible Storage Room provides unique opportunities for education, for both school groups and the general public.