Wyck’s Home Farm Club is now in its sixth year of operation as a large, cohesive, collaboratively-run kitchen garden.

Join our horticulturist, friends, and neighbors on Tuesdays and Fridays in Wyck’s historic home farm for short lessons, hands-on experience, and a share of fresh produce when you volunteer! No registration required!

Join us for our last curator's tour of the year!

Ever wondered what it was like to keep clean more than 200 years ago? From chamber pots to tooth powder and perfume, follow along as we go behind the scenes to explore the all-important but often overlooked personal objects in the Wyck collection that helped the Wistar-Haines family stay fresh.

Mondays and Thursdays 7am – 8am

Start your morning with peace and fresh air! Join wellness coordinator Megan Do Nascimento for a moderately paced stroll through Awbury’s 56-acre landscape—exploring gardens, woodlands, meadows, ponds, and the farm. It’s the perfect way to reset, connect with nature, and begin the day energized.

Visit Historic Germantown's new Visitor's Center to view two exhibits:

Permanent Exhibition: Deeply Rooted, Ever Changing: 300 Years in Germantown

A permanent exhibition on display at the Historic Germantown Visitor Center, Deeply Rooted, Ever Changing: 300 Years in Germantown, traces more than three centuries of transformation, highlighting the evolution of Germantown from its founding through the abolitionist movement, the Industrial Revolution, and the Civil Rights Movement. Artifacts on display include decorative arts, advertisements, posters, household items, a rare 1730s rooster-shaped weather vane from the German Reformed Church in Market Square, and a surveyor’s compass designed by American astrologer and mathematician, David Rittenhouse. Drawing from the Germantown Historical Society’s collections, the exhibition provides a window into the everyday lives, achievements, and challenges of the communities that called Germantown home.

Rotating Exhibition: Rebellion and Remembrance in Freedom’s Backyard |July 9 – December 1 2026

Serving as the Visitor Center’s first rotating exhibition, Rebellion and Remembrance in Freedom’s Backyard examines Germantown’s unique role in the American Revolution and how the events of that era helped shape the neighborhood’s identity for generations. Just six miles from Independence Hall, Germantown stood at the crossroads of revolutionary change. Home to descendants of German and British colonists, enslaved and free Africans, and Native peoples, the neighborhood witnessed the violence of war firsthand while also serving as a place where individuals sought and asserted their freedom. Featuring Revolutionary-era artifacts and documents, the exhibition explores how memories of battle, resistance, and liberation helped establish Germantown’s lasting reputation as “Freedom’s Backyard.” Among the exhibition’s highlights is a section of the historic Johnson House fence damaged during the Battle of Germantown, accompanied by a video simulation illustrating how the damage occurred during the conflict. Also debuting on July 9, the exhibition will remain on view through December 1, 2027.

Hosted by the PA Flax Project. (Free, no registration required)

The PA Flax Project is back at the Wyck Historic House and Garden to show you how the flax crop becomes spinnable fiber!

Shortly after the city of Philadelphia’s founding in 1682, it became known for its textile manufacturing industry - particularly in the Germantown area. That being said, manufacturing was still mostly small scale at the time, accomplished primarily by growing an acre or two of fiber flax in any one location and hand-processing at home and/or in small stores. At the same time as this industry boom, the Wyck House was being built and developed. There is evidence that during the residential years of this house, the families within it took part in the Germantown culture of growing and processing fiber flax in order to make household goods such as hand towels, undergarments, and more.

The PA Flax Project has been hosting hand processing events at the historic Wyck house since 2022, and we will be back this fall to continue the centuries-long tradition of turning fiber flax from crop to spinnable fiber on their grounds.

What a better way to celebrate the Halloween season than a theatrical visit to the "spooky house in Germantown?" Lancaster actor Jordon Ross Weinhold brings a one-person adaptation of Washington Irving's 1820 story of chilling events in the New York countryside. Who will win out? Modern science or the local legend of a diabolical specter? Perfect for all ages!

A wine-and-cheese reception will follow the performances.

Seating is limited. Advanced reservations strongly suggested.

The Secret Cinema will be screening curated eerie short films and the 1939 Boris Karloff classic, The Man They Could Not Hang. Karloff plays a scientist who develops a machine that can bring dead people back to life. He demonstrates it by killing his willing medical-student assistant, intending to revive him—but the police arrive before he can complete the experiment. Karloff is convicted of murder and executed...and then, naturally, comes back from the dead himself and starts taking revenge on everybody who convicted him.

This unintentional comedy is a dead-serious presentation of an increasingly preposterous story featuring mad-scientist machinery, melodrama, and Karloff plotting elaborate revenge.

Recommended Ages: 13+
BYO Food and Drink
Doors open at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $15 online | $20 at the door

Accessible to all ages and experience levels. A relaxing, restorative yoga flow focused on mindfulness. Bilingual (Spanish & English).

Join us at Stenton Museum on Saturday, October 24th, 1-3pm, for an afternoon of family friendly fall fun!

All ages are welcome to enjoy games, crafts, face-painting, and pumpkin decorating! Light refreshments and cider will be served. Event is free.

Allens Lane Art Center is pleased to present Attracted Opposites, a group exhibition featuring the art of husband-and-wife ceramic artists Jimmy Clark and Angela Klaerner Clark whose decades-long practices explore the rich possibilities of clay through very different, yet complementary, approaches.

Attracted Opposites offers an intimate look at two accomplished ceramic artists whose lives and creative practices have developed alongside one another, while maintaining distinctly individual voices.

Join us for the opening reception and artists' talk on Saturday, October 24, from 6 - 8 PM.

Join us at the Farm at Awbury for our annual Harvest Festival—a celebration of fall with farm fun, community spirit, and hands-on activities. Shop local crafts and goods, meet neighbors, and soak up the season.

Looking Glass is an exhibition of works by six contemporary craft artists in conversation with the architecture, history, and interpretation of Cliveden. Sited within the historic interiors and grounds of Cliveden, the project reflects the history of people and place in 2026, in commemoration of our nation's semi-quincentennial. The program will feature curator Heather Moqtaderi and artists Naya Lee Chang and Janna Gregonis discussing their works and inspiration.

The program is free; advanced registration is encouraged.

Come see Historic Fair Hill at the 19133 Farmer's Market! It is pay what you wish. Historic Fair Hill's produce is always free. At the Village of Arts and Humanities (2544 Germantown Ave)

Trick or Treat at the "Scary House on Tulpehocken Street"

Free candy and some bits of history

Stop at Cliveden between 12 pm and 4 pm on Saturday, November 7th to hear New Jersey based historical musicians, The Ministers of Apollo, perform music of the Revolutionary era featuring the harpsichord in Cliveden's parlor. The program is free and open to visitors of all ages. This program is generously supported by The Haley Foundation.

This guided tour will showcase the diverse collection of trees within the grounds - from mature sycamores and oaks to unique specimens like American Chestnut, Viburnum, Linden, and Black Locust. Participants will learn about the cultural history, ecological roles, and stories behind these trees. The walk highlights how the landscape functions as a living archive or resilience, heritage and sustainability. Rain date may 23rd

Comparing the service buildings at Cliveden & Drayton Hall

More info coming soon…

The N Crowd returns by popular demand on Friday, November 20th, at the Allens Lane Art Center for another great night of improv comedy!

If you missed their first show, now's your chance to catch Philadelphia's longest-running improv comedy troupe, The N Crowd as they perform another unforgettable night of fast-paced, unscripted comedy. Every show is unique! Each audience suggestion can send the performers in a brand-new direction, creating unexpected characters, stories, and laugh-out-loud scenes on the spot.

Enjoy a side-splitting evening of laughs in this truly fun show!

Recommended Ages: 18+

BYO Food and Drink

Doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Show starts at 8:30 p.m.

1:00-3:00 PM

Up the Wingohocking Creek from Stenton, the Fishers built Wakefield in 1798 and later built Wakefield Mills textile manufactory. This walking tour will include the Wakefield ruin, Little Wakefield, a school building that still stands, the site of Waldheim, and Belfield owned and gardened by artist Charles Willson Peale.

The walking tour will begin and end at La Salle University Art Museum. The museum will be open from 12:00-4:00pm for participants to visit the museum before or after the walk to view collections related to the landscape we will cover. Restrooms will be available at the museum.

The walking portion of this tour will be 2 hours long and will cover a little over 2 miles with varied terrain and elevation. We will be moving at a moderate pace with a few short breaks, walking through La Salle’s campus and around parts of the campus perimeter, along Lindley and Belfield Avenues. Please wear proper footwear, dress for the weather, and bring water.

This tour is part of Historic Germantown's 26 Walking Tours in 2026. To see a full list of tours, visit HG's website.

Join Cliveden for a closing reception for Looking Glass on Saturday, November 14th from 3pm to 5pm!

The Chew House will be open for self-guided walkthroughs of the art installations throughout the house and grounds. Visitors are encouraged to view these incredible pieces before our tour season closes on November 22nd.

Tensions are high in town. Factions are growing, and the community's radio station is caught in the crossfire. Everyone wants to be heard, but no one is listening!

In this original musical comedy radio play, three very different personalities are battling for control of the station—and the audience. With a couple of sensible voices trying to keep the chaos under control, things are bound to get… interesting.

Who’s In Charge? is an original musical comedy radio play full of big personalities, small-town tensions, and plenty of laughs.

We are thrilled to welcome back Mt. Airy Home Companion, Mt. Airy’s resident theater troupe! We can’t wait for you to see this year’s original show and incredible cast.

BYO and Concessions.
TWO PERFORMANCES
Saturday, November 14 - 7 PM
Sunday, November 15 - 2 PM

Hosted by the PA Flax Project. (Free, no registration required)

The PA Flax Project is back at the Wyck Historic House and Garden to show you how the flax crop becomes spinnable fiber!

Shortly after the city of Philadelphia’s founding in 1682, it became known for its textile manufacturing industry - particularly in the Germantown area. That being said, manufacturing was still mostly small scale at the time, accomplished primarily by growing an acre or two of fiber flax in any one location and hand-processing at home and/or in small stores. At the same time as this industry boom, the Wyck House was being built and developed. There is evidence that during the residential years of this house, the families within it took part in the Germantown culture of growing and processing fiber flax in order to make household goods such as hand towels, undergarments, and more.

The PA Flax Project has been hosting hand processing events at the historic Wyck house since 2022, and we will be back this fall to continue the centuries-long tradition of turning fiber flax from crop to spinnable fiber on their grounds.

The annual Mt. Airy Winter Art Market returns! This free public event will feature a curated selection of art and handmade goods from our talented faculty, students, and guest vendors, you're sure to find something special for your loved ones — all thoughtfully priced with gift-giving in mind. Best of all, your purchase will support the arts community and Allens Lane Art Center.

Please join us at Stenton on Saturday, December 5th, 1:00-3:00pm, as we usher in the holiday season! Get in the holiday spirit with music, tea, light refreshments, a holiday craft, and plenty of holiday cheer! S'mores and hot cocoa will also be available outdoors, so dress warmly!