The Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Museum and Art Gallery on the ground floor of Deike Building at University Park will extend its hours to be open prior to Penn State home football games.
Administrator
Steel towns. Mines. Factories. Places like these, once the lifeblood of the industrial economy in Pennsylvania, have since become artifacts of our state's history.
LOCATION
6 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802-5000
814-863-8554 (Director)
museum@ems.psu.edu
HOURS
Monday through Friday
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Closed weekends and legal holidays, including the University recess between Christmas and New Years. Call for special appointments.
Open Home Penn State Football Games - Open 9-11:00 a.m. during afternoon home football games; closed for evening games.
Parking on the University Park Campus
An open discussion and talks by authors Russell Gold and Seamus McGraw about the fracking industry, climate change, and the Marcellus Shale were held from 2:30-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 in the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery.
The Eclectic Collections exhibit, a collaborative exhibit offered through Penn State's University Museum Consortium, is on display through Jan. 5, 2019, at the HUB-Robeson Center's Art Alley.
'The Bearded Lady Project' photography exhibit offers visitors a chance to reexamine the faces of science. The exhibit opened on Nov. 1 and will run through Feb. 22. The museum and gallery are open during the week and are free to the public.
The exhibit was created to celebrate the induction of Edward Steidle, dean of the College of Mineral Industries (1928–1953) (now College of Earth and Mineral Sciences) into the National Mining Hall of Fame and to commemorate the opening of the newly renovated Steidle Building.
The Lure of the Mine exhibition grew out of a collaboration between the EMS Museum & Art Gallery and the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State (CPA). The exhibit mirrored the theme of the oratorio, Anthracite Fields, composed by Julia Wolfe.
An exhibition in the Borland Project Space, 125 Borland Building, on Oct. 1-6 will showcase the research and materials for a new course that investigates a select group of rocks and minerals used in the production of art between the Prehistoric Era and Early Modern period.
Students can get cool rocks, minerals and fossils and learn more about nature at the annual Minerals Junior Education Day. The educational program is designed to encourage the interest of students in grades one through eight in the earth sciences.