Everhart Museum — Attraction in Scranton

I want to start off by saying I'm giving a 3 star review only because of the art itself in the museum. Honestly I would have given a 5 star review if it wasn't for staff stalking my family which consists of myself, my husband and our 5 children. We were busy enjoying the museum, exploring and explaining everything to our very inquisitive children. On the first level there was a crystal or quartz that my kids reached out to touch because there was no sign stating that they couldn't touch it, we quickly got corrected which was fine I corrected my children and said do not touch anything. After that it felt like we were being followed, on the second floor one of my daughters leaned over an exhibit so she could get a closer look and was told to back up and not touch the exhibit. I was right there she didn't touch anything she just couldn't see it. Next we decided to join the event they had going on and 2 of my kids were sharing a seat, the staff took it upon herself to ask my child to sit on the floor. My kids were extremely well behaved in this museum and to be followed and corrected for things they didn't even do and to be told to sit on the floor is absolutely appalling. This was the first and the last time we will ever go to this museum. Do better Everhart. My kids were not...

If you need to take a break from the summer heat and enjoy some peace and quiet, the Everheart Museum can provide that along with some aesthetically pleasing works of art and taxidermy.

I arrived at 2 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon, taking refuge from stormy weather. Being a veteran, I was granted free access, otherwise it would have been $5 per person.

On the main floor was a display of a couple hundred various birds from all over the world, from ostriches to eagles to hawks to penguins! All were beautifully rendered taxidermically.

Also featured was the exhibit "Bold Independence" featuring quilts from the second half of the 20th century made by 11 African American women from Mississippi and Alabama.

A bit of local history is told through the paintings by John Willard Raught, who painted vivid pictures of the coalbreakers throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.

Other exhibits featured "Meaningful Objects," a statue of Venus, and much, much more.

Everheart museum is near Nay Aug park and is a must for those who just want to escape from the outside world for...

Not going to lie. I didn’t have big expectations. I grew up in Scranton and went here as a kid many times.

My big memories were the dinosaur fossils (cast), bird room, shrunken head, mineral/stones under black light and the bees that used to be in the basement.

Some of that is still there and some of it is not (the worker bees apparently abandoned their Queen at some point; the shrunken head was taken out to investigate if it was actually human remains, in which case it would not be able to be displayed).

But it’s been really well cleaned up since my childhood and even the early 2000s which was probably the last time I was there. It feels very modern, very clean, freshly painted with galleries deserving of a museum. There are some very nice modern works that I enjoyed seeing.

It’s a bit of a miracle that the museum has survived so many decades and so many ups and downs that the city has gone through financially and that it is so beautiful.

I’m glad I visited on this last trip back to Scranton and I’m proud to have it in...