Susquehanna Art Museum
Susquehanna Art Museum is a museum in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 102 m. Short Mountain stands 500 m to the north-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is GUI Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Susquehanna Art Museum (SAM) is a non-profit art museum located in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the state's capital. Founded in 1989 by a group of central Pennsylvania art educators, it is the only dedicated art museum in Central Pennsylvania. SAM operates as a non-collecting institution, meaning its galleries display a rotating schedule of borrowed and traveling exhibitions rather than a permanent collection. It is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museum Association. After more than two decades of nomadic operation across a series of temporary spaces, SAM opened its permanent home in January 2015 at 1401 North Third Street, occupying an adaptively reused 1916 bank building expanded and renovated by the Philadelphia architectural firm EwingCole. The 20,000-square-foot facility features preserved neoclassical interiors, including 27-foot gold leaf ceilings, and a converted bank vault that serves as an intimate exhibition gallery. SAM mounts more than a dozen exhibitions per year drawn from museums, private collections, commercial galleries, and individual artists, drawn from local, regional, national, and international sources. Its outreach program, VanGo! Museum on Wheels, was founded in 1992 and serves communities across a roughly 100-mile radius of Harrisburg. The museum also operates public art and community education initiatives.
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What to expect
How to reach it
- 23.4 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Penn & Sayford Playground: 0.1 mi
- Riverfront Park: 0.2 mi
- Jackson Lick Pool Recreation Area: 0.3 mi
- Lenore Haas Alexander Playground: 0.3 mi
- 4th & Dauphin Playground: 0.4 mi
- Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: 0.3 mi
- Firefighters' Memorial Monument: 0.3 mi
- WWI Buddy Monument: 0.3 mi
- World War II U.S. Submarine Veteran Memorial: 0.4 mi
- PennDOT Workers' Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Indian Echo Caverns: 9.2 mi
- Hershey's Chocolate World: 12.1 mi
- Candymonium: 12.2 mi
- Carrousel: 12.2 mi
- Mini Himalaya: 12.3 mi
- Shepherd: 8.1 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 8.3 mi
- Wickersham Hill: 9.5 mi
- Neiman Hill: 10.7 mi
- Hawk Rock: 10.7 mi
- John F. Hartranft Statue: 0.6 mi
- The Gallery at Walnut Place: 0.7 mi
- Boies Penrose Statue: 0.7 mi
- Andrew Curtin statue: 0.8 mi
- Harrisburg Giants mural: 0.9 mi
- Historic Harrisburg Association: 0.1 mi
- Pennsylvania National Fire Museum: 0.4 mi
- State Museum of Pennsylvania: 0.4 mi
- Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts: 0.8 mi
- National Civil War Museum: 1.8 mi
- GUI Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- Sunken Gardens: 0.3 mi
- Peffer Street Pollinator Garden: 0.5 mi
- Wesley AME Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Atlas Street Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- McCormick Island: 2.5 mi
- Peiffer Memorial Arboretum and Nature Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Fort Hunter Conservancy: 6.3 mi
- Hamer Woodlands at Cove Mountain Preserve: 6.8 mi
- Ibberson Park: 8.4 mi
- Eichelberger Spring: 3.3 mi
- Spring Lake Spring: 3.4 mi
- Orr's Bridge Spring: 4.0 mi
- Pine Springs: 10.9 mi
- Spring Creek Springs: 13.6 mi
- Original Carrousel Circle: 12.4 mi
- Hemlock Grove: 18.7 mi
- Minnich's Hit Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
- Rowland Picnic Area: 19.2 mi
- Quitte Creek Nature Park: 20.6 mi
- Concrete Beach: 0.9 mi
- Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 21.8 mi
- Rausch Gap: 22.0 mi
- Chickies Rock: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Susquehanna Art Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short Mountain | NNE 22° | 500 m | 23.2 mi |
| Stony Mountain | NE 38° | 491 m | 17.3 mi |
| Third Mountain | NNE 22° | 488 m | 11.1 mi |
| Buck Ridge Tower | SW 236° | 488 m | 24.1 mi |
| Long Mountain | SW 224° | 479 m | 17.4 mi |
| Hammonds Rocks | SW 234° | 462 m | 23.6 mi |
| Mount Holly | SW 234° | 459 m | 20.4 mi |
| Berry Mountain | N 10° | 435 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:00 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:02 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 39 | 51 | 61 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Harrisburg 1 NE, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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