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Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

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Susquehanna Art Museum

Non-collecting art museum in Harrisburg's Midtown neighborhood showing rotating borrowed and traveling exhibitions.

1401 North 3rd Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102 · Harrisburg, PA

About Susquehanna Art Museum

The Susquehanna Art Museum, called SAM, is a nonprofit art museum in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital. It was founded in 1989 by central Pennsylvania art educators and is described as the only dedicated art museum in Central Pennsylvania. Because it does not keep a permanent collection, its galleries cycle through borrowed and traveling shows. The museum also runs classes, workshops, school visits, group tours, and a mobile program called VanGo! Visitors can check the museum's visit page for current hours and admission details, and free parking is available in a lot behind the building.

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  • #contemporary art
  • #non-collecting
  • #Harrisburg
  • #Midtown

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