glencairn museum
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Bryn Athyn is a modern Garden of Eden. When you visit this place your soul is lifted to the heavens. It is magnificent according to our 81 year aunt who visited this garden for the first time. She was completely taken by the beauty and grandeur of this castle and nearby Bryn Athyn Cathedral. I have back here 3 times in the last month. I am drawn to the serenity of this place. I can commune with the Lord here. It is a gentle peace of heaven. If you do not experience the majesty of this place, it is your spiritual loss. Raymond Pitcairn was a visionary who left his artwork and collections for future generations to enjoy. I have and will continue to discover new wonders each time I visit.
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Enjoy Gothic Architecture set in a magnificent landscape that is breathtaking. Enjoy how these structures were built using techniques from medieval times and duplicating them on site. Stained glass windows each telling a bibical story.
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We found ourselves here on a Sunday afternoon with nothing else to do. It was very informative and the view from the top of the tower was wonderful, especially with the fall colors. While this family history is somewhat odd for building castles, it was still interesting detail and they also have some neat artifacts in their basement museum. Worth it to see.
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We would like to go back again and highly recommend this, especially for anyone in the area. Beautiful!!
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We arrived early for our tour of Glencairn Museum and walked over to the cathedral and got a nice tour there first. The cathedral is beautifully landscaped and the interior rivals any large cathedral in the area in beauty. We got an excellent tour of the Glencairn home and museum. The artifacts are in separate rooms throughout the home, and it is an interesting walk thru the building. I especially enjoyed the spectacular view of the Philadelphia skyline from the tower.
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Such an amazing home! Thankful that the family chose to share it. We went during Christmas and only saw a small portion of the rooms. We will definitely be going back when the entire house is fully open. The staff is very friendly and open to answering any questions and had the answers to many that seemed off the wall.The vision of the founders for the cathedral and the surrounding area is inspiring.
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This is a Medieval Romanesque styled castle built as a family residence and now a museum. There are total 90 rooms (tour only shows several rooms). There is fantastic view from the tower, an impressive Main Hall, and museum collections housed in former BRs. Reservation is a must esp during wknds. Our tour guide Reed was enthusiastic & knowledgeable, and he said if visitors want unhurried time to go through each gallery with museum displays, ck websitefor Festival days - that's the only time that visitors tour at own pace and can spend as long as like to fully read up about each room's displays.
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I bought tickets from groupon as a stocking stuffer for my boyfriend and his nine year old daughter this past Christmas. We went a few weekends during their Medieval Festival 2014. We took the pilgrimage tour, survived, and were rewarded for our adventure. We watched medieval instruments played aloud for us and helped decorate a castle. Many people were dressed in medieval costumes and received free admission. It was a fun, educational, and inexpensive way to spend a family day.
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Went to the Glencairn Museum on an August weekend. If you want a tour, you need to call ahead, especially on weekends....the tours fill up fast cause they're small in size and last 90+ minutes. They start you out in a classroom for a video that explains the place...there's a lot of history to it that most folks aren't aware of. They then run you through the major rooms of the home/museum. This is a combo of family spaces and galleries that were converted from family spaces. The place is stunning...it reminds you somewhat of Fonthill, the Mercer mansion in Doylestown. But Glencairn is more polished, being built in the 1930's, it's designed to look medieval, but doesn't quite totally feel like it. I found the most interesting aspect of the tour to be the family rooms you get to see. There is a ton of little passages, weird staircases, and strange features to this place...it must have been neat to live here. The tour gives you a little taste of this, but I really feel they could explore more of that angle....it's almost like they're a little disdainful of the quirkiness of the mansion. They really emphasize the galleries of the stuff the guy collected, which is first rate, but after a while not as interesting as the house itself.The mansions at Newport have begun to modify their tours to reflect this angle, I feel Glencairn could do the same. Our guide was great...friendly and knowledgable. Highlight of the tour is the tower, which is accessed by this tiny elevator. Up there is a glassed-in room where the family used to hang out...even watch TV. It has a great view and is perfect for pictures. After the tour, we walked over to the Cathderal. it was open for walkthroughs and is well worth a 1/2 hour or so. All in all, a great place to spend a summer afternoon.
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We booked this attraction through Groupon never knowing this place existed even thought it is only about one hour from our home. We first toured Carinwood, the home located right next door to this museum. When you go be sure to do both homes and I recommend doing Carinwood first, then Glencarin museum and if there are no events taking place, the cathedral (we could not visit the cathedral due to a wedding taking place). This former home is magnificent! Although many of the rooms are set up to display outstanding artifacts, you can still get a sense of wonder of this home. It reminded me of a European castle. An elevator takes you to the top of the tower where you have a birds eye view for miles; even able to see the Philadelphia sky line. I'm sure the grounds are breathtaking, but since we were there in November, most plants were done for the season. Our guide, a college student I believe, wasn't top notch. She had note cards which she read from and didn't seem to be able to answer about half of the questions asked. I just cannot express the wonder of the architecture. We plan to return as it was hard to take in everything and hope to be able to see some different exhibits.