Hobbies and Interests If you are interested in visiting southeastern Pennsylvania to experience local culture and events, the region offers you a wealth of opportunities throughout the year. Listed below are a list of events devoted to hobbies and interests held in the area.
Please ask us for suggestions for other local events that may interest you.
Adamstown Antique Extravanganza
Adamstown, PA
Dealers and collectors, as well as the uninitiated from all over the world have succumbed to the charms of Adamstown, which has become the premier year-round antiques destination in the Northeast. The easy access to the area from Exit 286 off of the Pennsylvania Turnpike provides the traveler with a worry-free trip. Antiques and collectibles, flea markets, thousands of dealers, free admission. Open from dawn to dusk.
Renningers Antique and Collectors Extravanganza
Kutztown, PA
Renningers Antique Center holds the Antique and Collectors' Extravanganza three times a year. This event attracts 1,000 of the nation's fine antique dealers from 42 states and provides for the widest range of exhibitors in the industry.
Keep in mind that since the events are both indoor and outdoor, they run rain or shine.
For more information, call Phone 570-385-0104 (Monday - Thursday), or 610-683-6848 (Friday & Saturday), or visit the official website.
Antique Auto Museum
Hershey, PA
A trip to the Antique Auto Museum in Hershey is a journey of discovery and enjoyment for the whole family. The Museum’s highly detailed dioramas present carefully restored vintage vehicles in elaborate scenes that bring the history of the automobile to life. From a tiny machine shop in turn-of-the-century New York to the asphalt apron of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the Museum’s Sea to Shining Sea exhibit invites the visitor to move through time and space on a tour from the automobile’s blacksmith shop beginnings to a time and place where the car was king.
For more information, call 717-566-7100 or visit the official website.
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation
Media, PA
Located in Ridley Creek State Park, the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is an 18th century working farm, includes: farmhouse, springhouse, and endangered breeds of livestock. Watch cheese-making, weaving, cooking and encampments. Open from mid-April through mid-November.
For admission fees, hours of operation, and more information, call 610-566-1725 or visit the official website.
Landis Valley Museum
Lancaster, PA
Open-hearth cooking, draft horse plowing, sheep shearing, blacksmithing, and basketmaking are exhibited in this 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania German Village.
For more information, call 717-569-0401 or visit the official website.
Daniel Boone Homestead
Birdsboro, PA
The site tells the story of Daniel's youth and the saga of the region's 18th century settlers by contrasting their lives and cultures. The Homestead offers many historic programs and exhibits, preserves 579 acres of open space, and provides passive recreational areas. Open March 1st through December 31st.
For more information, call 610-562-4900 or visit the official website.
