The Johnstown Area Heritage Association and the Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America (ABANA) are partnering to present a new temporary exhibition, #150mmchallenge — a 150-piece display of ironwork that was curated and produced by Delyth Done and Ambrose Burne of the United Kingdom’s Hereford College of Arts.

The Earthwalk Explorer lets adults and kids experience projections of mountain ranges, forests, rivers and lakes, state borders, cities, trails, and cultural features. Putting your “feet to earth,” you can trek across the spines of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Alleghenies, or Adirondacks, or follow the river valleys of the Susquehanna, James, or Hudson. You can touch the highest point in the state with their fingers or point out your hometowns with your toes. The Explorer uses a horizontal scale of 1 inch = 3.88 miles.

The Johnston Children’s Museum is delighted to let you know that as of this week the Heritage Discovery Center/Johnstown Children’s Museum will resume Sunday opening hours of noon-5:00 pm! So beginning May 2, the HDC/JCM hours are as follows:

• Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 10:00 am-5:00 pm

• Sunday: noon-5:00 pm

Johnstown Flood National MeThe Lakebed Rehabilitation Project at Johnstown Flood National Memorial continues to move forward. Russell Tree Experts, based out of Ohio, are on site to clear areas of the Lakebed. This portion of the project includes manual clearing of trees in the Lakebed and at the abutments. The Lakebed once held back approximately 20 million tons of water that was unleashed on the Conemaugh Valley on May 31, 1889 causing the Great Johnstown Flood. The work will continue throughout the winter. Visitors may experience temporary closures on the North and South Abutments as this work progresses. This does not impact Visitor Center hours of operation.morial News Release

JAHA is excited to present a fun Halloween event using several of our facilities for lots of spooky fun while social distancing! You’ll get a passport to take to each location – Peoples Natural Gas Park, Heritage Discovery Center, Wagner-Ritter Garden, and Johnstown Flood Museum

Johnstown Flood National Memorial will continue the Lakebed Rehabilitation Project on October 2, 2020. Allegheny Goatscape, based out of Pittsburgh, PA, will supply a herd of goats to assist in clearing vegetation in the lakebed as the project moves forward. The mission of Allegheny Goatscape is to “reduce invasive and unwanted vegetation in public spaces and vacant lots, utilizing goats for browsing.”

The Johnstown Area Heritage Association (JAHA) is delighted to unveil an extension to the permanent immigration exhibition on the first floor of the Heritage Discovery Center! The panel extends the exhibition's timeline to the period of 1916-1930, when African Americans first came to the Johnstown region in large numbers as part of the Great Migration.

The Wentzscope is a microscope specifically designed for museum installations that is sturdy and easy to use, allowing even the youngest children to experience the world of microbiology. It features a large eyepiece at the top, so that more than one child can see at a time. Specimens are mounted on non-breakable plexiglass, and viewers adjust a knob to focus on each specimen.

An 8” rolling mill stand from Bethlehem Steel’s Gautier Division has been restored and moved to the Heritage Discovery Center, just outside the entrance of the Iron & Steel Gallery.