Boilo Bash
2025-12-13 17:00 - 21:00 UTC | Anthracite Heritage Museum, McDade Park, Scranton, PA, 18504, United States
Raise your glass and warm your spirits at our first-ever Boilo Bash, a cocktail party celebrating the Coal Region’s signature holiday drink! Sample boilo (a unique blend of citrus, honey, spices, whiskey, and other ingredients) while you enjoy live music, hors d’oeuvres, and basket raffles. Through the generosity of Nimble Hill Winery and LT Verrastro, beer and wine are now included with your tickets!
Tickets are available for purchase at the door!

This fundraiser supports the Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces Associates, a non-profit, community-based organization. The Associates are also offering unique holiday gifts for pre-order and pick-up at the event. Order your anthracite-filled stocking or boilo kit today!

Submit Your Boilo

Think your family’s recipe is the best boilo in the Valley? Put it to the test at our boilo competition! Whether you brew a traditional mix or a creative new twist, we welcome all varieties. Sign up by December 10!

Anthracite Stories Book Club - Feb 2026 Meeting
2026-02-07 11:00 - 12:30 | PA
Join the museum educators for the second meeting of the Anthracite Stories Book Club. This quarterly book club will read stories of and related to Anthracite Heritage, coal mining, and the Scranton area. Registered club members will receive 10% off the quarter’s book when purchased in the Museum Store and a free bookmark. Discover great reads, make some bookish friends, and enjoy refreshments. (When available, we will meet the authors.)
Pre-registration is highly encouraged!
Saturday, 7 February | 11am -12:30pm
We will continue with Currents in the Electric City, A Scranton Anthology. For the next meeting, we’re reading the following selections:
Two Poems by Bonita Lini Markowski
“Dear Scranton” by Daryl Fanelli (Poem)
“Enjoying a Smoke in Scranton” by Stephanie Longo
“The Indian American Dream” by Janvi Patel

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Museum Educator, Chris Stokum, via email at chstokum@pa.gov or at the museum, (570) 963-4804.
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Mine Rescue Day
2026-04-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Anthracite Heritage Museum, McDade Park, Scranton, PA, 18504, United States
Step into the boots of a mine rescuer and experience how anthracite miners responded to danger and disaster underground. Splint bones, patch skulls, mix folk remedies, and get up close to rescue equipment at a special “touch-a-truck” with Scranton and Taylor Fire Departments.

Real doctors, first responders, and health professionals will explore mine rescue history at stations throughout the museum. We’ll have rarely seen artifacts and historic films from our medical collections on display for one day only.

Mine Rescue Day is suitable for all ages and is included with regular museum admission.

1PM – Join Dr. Bill Conlogue (Marywood) for a presentation on worker’s compensation and emergency relief in the wake of the 1911 Pancoast Colliery fire. Drawing on compensation ledgers in our collections, Dr. Conlogue shows how widows and orphans found means of support after this destructive mine disaster.

Pre-Registration Encouraged!
Enter your name and number of guests to let us know you’re coming! Input your email address to sign up for our newsletter (optional). Regular museum admission is payable the day of the event.
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Seeing Double: Pennsylvania's Industrial Revolution in 3D
2026-04-18 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Dr. Richard Healey introduces Seeing Double: Pennsylvania’s Industrial Revolution in 3D, an exhibit of 19th- and 20th-century stereoviews showing at four PHMC museums on the Industrial Trail of History from April 17 through Summer 2026.
Dr. Healey, a distinguished British geographer at the University of Portsmouth, will offer a virtual introduction to his exhibit on the Pennsylvania industries of rail, iron, oil, and anthracite coal, previously on display at the Royal Geographical Society in London. As part of his research, Dr. Healey has rendered numerous 19th and 20th century stereoviews as red and blue anaglyphs, allowing museum visitors to experience Pennsylvania’s historic industries in 3D.
Seeing Double will show at Anthracite Heritage Museum, Drake Well Museum and Park, Cornwall Iron Furnace, and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, with each museum displaying a component of the exhibit focused on their individual historical themes.
This program will be available virtually via Zoom (link). The Anthracite Heritage Museum will also host a live viewing party.

2026 Arts on Fire Festival
2026-06-06 11:00 - 17:00 | Scranton Iron Furnaces, 159 Cedar Ave., Scranton, PA, 1850, United States
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces presents the 2026 Arts on Fire Festival! The Arts on Fire Festival, launched in 2009, is a FREE two-day celebration of arts, heritage, industry, and community held the first weekend of June at the Iron Furnaces in Scranton.
Join us at the Furnaces on Saturday, June 6 for hands-on activities, live musical performances, the ever-popular iron pour, and returning this year– the Youth Arts Showcase. On Sunday, June 7, we will have several workshops. See below to learn more about the weekend-long festival.
Saturday, June 6 | 11a-5p
Hands-on activities with our partners, live music, craft and artist market, and more! More information coming soon.
The Iron Pour!
Saturday only – Visitors can purchase scratch blocks to design custom souvenirs from the festival. Metal Artist, Brian Glaze, will be joined by blacksmiths Cliff Prokop and David Schulte as well as students from Keystone College for the ultimate, fiery iron-pouring experience. Visitor scratch blocks will be turned into their very own iron, souvenir. Please allow time for iron pour and cool down. Participants may need to return on later date to retrieve finished product.

Youth Arts Showcase
Local youth will showcase their original art based on the theme – Change.
On Saturday, stop by the YAS tent to check out their work and chat with the young artists about their process and inspiration.
Learn more and submit your artwork here.

Sunday, June 7 | 11a – 4p
Come back to the Furnaces to shop our unique craft and artist marker, check out partner activities, and for a workshop or two! More information on workshops coming soon.

IMPORTANT
We’ve been made aware of fraudulent emails going out soliciting vendors (and payments) for Arts on Fire. We do not send out requests for payments unsolicited. Also, if the email is not from the Museum Educator, Nicole Negron, at nicnegron@pa.gov email, please disregard as spam.

About the Scranton Iron Furnaces
The Scranton Iron Furnaces are a four-acre site along Roaring Brook and managed by The Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces. They are a former working iron foundry, built in the 1840s, where many of the early immigrants to Scranton worked. Set against this historic backdrop, visitors to the Arts on Fire Festival can enjoy hands-on history and the best of contemporary art.

2026 Arts on Fire Festival
2026-06-07 11:00 - 16:00 | Scranton Iron Furnaces, 159 Cedar Ave., Scranton, PA, 1850, United States
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces presents the 2026 Arts on Fire Festival! The Arts on Fire Festival, launched in 2009, is a FREE two-day celebration of arts, heritage, industry, and community held the first weekend of June at the Iron Furnaces in Scranton.
Join us at the Furnaces on Saturday, June 6 for hands-on activities, live musical performances, the ever-popular iron pour, and returning this year– the Youth Arts Showcase. On Sunday, June 7, we will have several workshops. See below to learn more about the weekend-long festival.
Saturday, June 6 | 11a-5p
Hands-on activities with our partners, live music, craft and artist market, and more! More information coming soon.
The Iron Pour!
Saturday only – Visitors can purchase scratch blocks to design custom souvenirs from the festival. Metal Artist, Brian Glaze, will be joined by blacksmiths Cliff Prokop and David Schulte as well as students from Keystone College for the ultimate, fiery iron-pouring experience. Visitor scratch blocks will be turned into their very own iron, souvenir. Please allow time for iron pour and cool down. Participants may need to return on later date to retrieve finished product.
Youth Arts Showcase
Local youth will showcase their original art based on the theme – Change. More information coming soon.
On Saturday, stop by the YAS tent to check out their work and chat with the young artists about their process and inspiration.

Sunday, June 7 | 11a – 4p
Come back to the Furnaces to shop our unique craft and artist market, check out partner activities, and join us for a workshop or two!
Pre-registration is required for all workshops. Register below.

11am – 4pm – Knightsmith Blacksmith Workshops – $20 – $35
Join expert blacksmith, Chris Knight, for one of two (or, both) workshops where you’ll learn blacksmithing basics and get hands on in the forge and fire. All participants will leave the workshop with their handmade project. (The herb cutter workshops may run past the event’s 4pm end time.)

11am – 4pm – NMIH Metal Melting Workshops – $30
Science, art, and manufacturing come together in this hands-on, family friendly workshop. Join National Museum of Industrial Museum’s historian, Mike Piersa, at the Scranton Iron Furnaces where participants learn how to prepare sand molds to receive molten tin and create a product to take home! Not recommended for children under 8 years old. Anyone under 18 will need to be accompanied by a parent/guardian. (Parent/guardian does not have to pay unless taking part in the experience.)

IMPORTANT
We’ve been made aware of fraudulent emails going out soliciting vendors (and payments) for Arts on Fire. We do not send out requests for payments unsolicited. Also, if the email is not from the Museum Educator, Nicole Negron, at nicnegron@pa.gov email, please disregard as spam.

About the Scranton Iron Furnaces
The Scranton Iron Furnaces are a four-acre site along Roaring Brook and managed by The Anthracite Heritage Museum and Iron Furnaces. They are a former working iron foundry, built in the 1840s, where many of the early immigrants to Scranton worked. Set against this historic backdrop, visitors to the Arts on Fire Festival can enjoy hands-on history and the best of contemporary art.
