Mercer Museum
- Also Known As: Bucks Country Historical Society also See Also:Fonthill,Mercer Mu
- Address: Pine and Ashland Sts
- Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 am 5 pm, Sunday Noon 5 pm
- Phone: 215.345.0210
This is the only museum I've ever been sufficently interested in to visit. Someday I expect to have a musem which will rival it. Henry Ford
The Mercer Museum is a history museum of everyday life in America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Henry Mercer (1856-1930) gathered the collection and constructed the Museum.The collection of some 40,000 objects documents the lives and tasks of early Americans through the tools that met their needs and wants prior to the Industrial Revolution, or about 1850. Visitors can choose their own paths through the Museum. Most of the 55 exhibit rooms and alcoves display the tools or products of an early American craft, trade or occupation. Other rooms show categories of objects such as lighting devices or architectural hardware. - Mercer Museum