 Mummers Museum - Reviews from across the web
|
|
|
Mummers Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What's a Mummer? They're like glittery human party favors -- banjo-strumming, sax-honking, glockenspiel-tinkling -- who parade through the streets of Philadelphia every New Year's Day. That day it doesn't matter how cold or miserable the weather is -- the Mummers are out in force, 15,000 of them, st...
roadsideamerica.com
Special, History -- Mummers Museum
Those who participate in the festivities are sometimes referred to as Shooters and Mummers. A bit of history: In the late 1700's, when the Swedes came to Philadelphia, they brought their custom of visiting friends on the Second Day of Christmas, December 26. Later the period of celebration was exten...
fieldtrip.com
Mummers Museum - Philadelphia - Reviews of Mummers Museum - TripAdvisor
I grew up in central PA and was always fascinated by the ornate Philadelphia Mummers parade that was televised on New Years day. I had a chance to visit the Mummers museum during a recent visit to Philly. The museum appears to have been built in the mid-80s and aparently has had little upgrading sin...
tripadvisor.com
Mummers Museum in Philadelphia, PA - AOL City Guide
Mummers Museum is a uniquely Philly phenomenon, or at least one hopes it is. Mummers are the people who deck themselves out and march in the New Year's Parade every year, then spend the rest of the year getting their costumes ready for the following January event. After checking out these spectacula...
search.cityguide.aol.com
Mummers Museum, Philadelphia, PA : Reviews of Mummers Museum - Yahoo! Travel
It's just not New Year's Day in Philadelphia without a Mummer's parade. Most noted for their incredibly elaborate and eye-popping costumes, outfits typically res...
travel.yahoo.com
Mummers Museum - Italian Market - Philadelphia, PA
Mummers parade to kick off the New Year! Imagine: bunch of male descendants of Irish, German, Italian, and whatnot immigrants decked up in sequins and feathers that they themselves sewed (although I hear they're cheating a bit and having the missus do these types of duties these days) and perfor...
yelp.com
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Mummers Museum
The Mummers Museum stands imposingly among a tumble-down South Philly neighborhood -- a colorful temple that tells the Mummer story. Built in 1976. Women were banned from the parade until 1983, but have a long history of sneaking in. Women disguis...
roadsideamerica.com
VisitPA :: Mummers Museum
A museum dedicated to the famous Philadelphia New Year's Day tradition, the Mummer's Parade. Housing a vast collection of Mummer paraphernalia and memorabilia, the museum uses colorful exhibits to demonstrate the tradition ...
visitpa.com
Mummers Museum :: gophila.com - The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia
One of the many small museums left as a legacy of the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, the Mummers Museum celebrates a centuries-old Philadelphia tradition, which can be traced back to English settlers who brought to the Colonies their Christmastime custom of dressing in costume and performing pantomi...
gophila.com
YouTube - Mummers Museum, Philadelphia
Mummers Museum in Philly. this was my first trip out using my camera phone and sadly i got confused/nervous about filming w/out permission, resulting in some great images of the inside...
youtube.com
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia Museum of Art
