Packwood House Museum

Mission Statement

The Packwood House Museum was created to protect and interpret the collections of decorative, industrial, and fine arts bequeathed to the Museum by Edith and John Fetherston. The purposes of these collections are for research, education, exhibition, and public service. The scope of collections has been expanded to include new items to complete each segment of decorative arts in the original bequest: furniture, quilts, ceramics, glass, metals, paintings, and Oriental art. Special emphasis is placed on representative objects made or used by people in Central Pennsylvania from settlement to the present.