The York County Heritage Trust is a not-for-profit educational institution that preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to explore the history and culture of York County, Pennsylvania.

Our mission is to acquire, develop and maintain a facility for a public police museum that provides a historical learning experience; foster the preservation of artifacts, historic records of police officers, their departments, and the techniques and equipment they...

Comprising two adjacent exhibition halls, the Cora Miller Gallery and the Brossman Gallery, the York College Galleries serve the College, the city of York, PA and the mid-atlantic region.

The Shoe House, built in 1948, was by far "Colonel" Mahlon N. Haines' most outlandish advertising gimmick. It is a wood frame structure covered with wire lath and coated with a cement stucco. It measures 48 ft. in length, 17 ft. in width at the widest part and 25 ft....

The first floor of the museum contains exhibit rooms housing permanent exhibits on the history of the town, including information on the different bridges at Wrightsville, and special rotating exhibits on particular aspects of local history.

Wright's Ferry Mansion stands as evidence of the strong rooting of the settlement made by a handful of English Quakers coming from Chester and Darby, Pennsylvania, to wild and virtually uninhabited country along the Susquehanna River. Pervaded by English Quaker...

The National Watch and Clock Museum was officially opened to the public in 1977 with fewer than 1,000 items. Since that time, the collection has increased to over 12,000 items and the museum has undergone several expansion projects. The latest expansion opened in...

Winters Heritage House Museum collects and preserves oral histories, artifacts, documents, writings, photographs and videos related to the people and history of the greater Elizabethtown area.

The Museum Includes: Several local atlases and all known local maps from 1825 onward, Genealogy books, School records, Special Mount Joy newspaper scrapbook, Research files. Pictures, All journals of historical research published by the society, Local videos / DVD'S.

A large collection of antique cooper's tools is on display (including many original tools from this cooperage) and because many of the museum pieces are not fragile, we have an actual barrel producing area in which they are used.