ABOUT THE MUSEUM

The Berks Military History Museum will be open on Saturday's from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Other hours will be announced at a later date. School groups, senior groups, and veterans organizations can make an appointment to view the collection.
We will also be announcing special film nights in the near future.
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Reading Eagle Photo - 9/11 Dedication Ceremony (September 2016).
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The Shillington Lions Club held their regular meeting and dinner at the Museum and then toured the building (March 2017).

IN THE NEWS

  • SINKING SPRING, PA - The Gouglersville Grange, Sinking Spring, recently showed its support for military history by donating $1,500 to the new Berks Military History Museum... Read More
Reading Eagle (December 9, 2017)

  • WYOMISSING, PA - Hundreds gathered at the Wyomissing Restaurant & Bakery Thursday night to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago and to honor those who helped establish the Berks County Military History Museum... Read More
Reading Eagle (December 8, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - It sat on his nightstand, a strange ashtray, a memento from, of all things, the attack on Pearl Harbor... Read More
Reading Eagle (December 7, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - A model airplane built to memorialize a Berks County soldier who died in World War II is coming home... Read More
WFMZ (October 30, 2017)​

  • MOHNTON, PA - The family of a Berks County veteran who died in World War II donated a large model of a bomber plane to the Berks Military History Museum in Mohnton on Saturday... Read More
Reading Eagle (October 29, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - William G. Shurr was given a quick private tour of the Berks Military History Museum before the doors officially opened for its grand opening Saturday morning in Mohnton... Read More
​Reading Eagle (August 13, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - It was a proud day for the people of Mohnton in Berks County... Read More
WFMZ (August 13, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - On the second floor of the historic 1873 wagon works in Mohnton, Ray Lascomb meticulously constructs a replica of a stone bridge that figured in the Battle of the Bulge... Read More
Reading Eagle (August 9, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - The historic Cyrus D. Hornberger wagon works in Mohnton is being updated to house the Berks Military History Museum, which is expected to open in August... Read More
Reading Eagle (June 9, 2017)

  • MOHNTON, PA - A historic building in Mohnton will be highlighting a different kind of history by the end of the summer... Read More
Reading Eagle (Nov. 11, 2016)

  • ​MOHNTON, PA - Itself a veteran of an earlier industrial era, a sturdy and, in its own way, stately building in Mohnton is being repurposed as a museum and a gathering spot for veterans groups... Read More
​Reading Eagle (Nov. 11, 2016)

  • MOHNTON, PA - ​The time marks the moment the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. The people in the crowd bowed their heads, rested their hands on their hearts and reflected... Read More
Reading Eagle (Sept. 12, 2016)

  • WYOMISSING, PA - One of Wyomissing's dining hot spots is helping a local nonprofit group bring military history to life in Berks County. The Wyomissing Family Restaurant will host a fundraising dinner for the future Berks Military History Museum in Mohnton... Read More​
​WFMZ (May 26, 2016)

  • MOHNTON, PA - If Mark M. Gillen is going to create the Berks Military History Museum he's planning in Mohnton, he's going to need community support... Read More     ​       
Reading Eagle (May 13, 2016) 
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Command Historian Sgt. Smith from the Pennsylvania National Guard visits with Mark Gillen at the Berks Military History Museum to lend his support in the effort to open a veterans museum here in Berks County (October 2016).