Museums and Gardens NJ/PA 2 day trip

New Trip 2 day trip

These are the planned activities.
Grounds for Sculpture nearly 300 contemporary sculptures are sited across 42 landscaped acres. Indoors, temporary exhibitions from established and emerging artists are featured in six galleries. Engaging and educational programs.

Mercer Museum The Mercer Museum is a history museum of everyday life in America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Henry Mercer (1856-1930) gathered the collection and constructed the Museum. The collection of some 40,000 objects documents the lives and tasks of early Americans through the tools that met their needs and wants prior to the Industrial Revolution, or about 1850. Visitors can choose their own paths through the Museum. Most of the 55 exhibit rooms and alcoves display the tools or products of an early American craft, trade or occupation. Other rooms show categories of objects such as lighting devices or architectural hardware.

Fonthill Castle Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill Castle was the home of archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). Mercer built Fonthill Castle as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints.
The castle serves as an early example of reinforced concrete and features forty-four rooms, over two hundred windows, and eighteen fireplaces. Fonthill Castle’s interior features Mercer’s renowned, hand-crafted ceramic tiles designed at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Fonthill Castle is open for guided one-hour tours. Due to its historic nature, Fonthill Castle has limited accessibility with steep stairs and narrow, uneven passages throughout the site.

Pearl S Buck House The Pearl S. Buck House, a National Historic Landmark museum in Bucks County, PA, was the home of Pearl S. Buck and her family. The beautiful and iconic Bucks County stone farmhouse contains a rich, intact collection from the extraordinary (the typewriter on which she wrote The Good Earth) to the ordinary (a closet full of board games her family played).
The grounds of the estate also contain Pearl S. Buck’s gravesite, greenhouse, award-winning gardens, Cultural Center (a former barn where Ms. Buck held community events), the Estate Pavilion (which houses special events and weddings), and the Welcome Center (which contains the International Gift Shop

Sayen House & Gardens

Dinner included (Cracker Barrell)
Single Occupancy - $449.00pp
Double Occupancy $420.00pp

Price includes admissions, Dinner, one night lodging breakfast, new 56 passenger Coach buses (subject to availability) Bus company also getting 2025 buses which we will have in the future

Bus stops times
7.30 AM Melville 395 N Service Rd, Melville, NY 11747
8.05 AM Rego Park 92-85 Queens Blvd, Queens, NY 11374 Park on street not in Burger King lot
8.25 AM NYC 34th and 6th AVE bus stops on 34th street near 6th AVE (facing 6th AVE.)
No refunds or credits for not attending.
Friends Forever Bus Club acts only in the capacity of an agent for its passengers in matters relating to transportation (whether by common contact or private charter); hotel accommodations and/or features of its tours entrusted to an person or company and holds itself free from all responsibility from whatever cause. It reserves the right to change any arrangements should situations necessitate, offering substitutes of equal value, to cancel the operation and/or decline to book or retain any person(s) on its tours, making full equitable refunds. Tour prices subject to change without notice.