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From May 1 to October 31 annually, the Museum is open from 1:30 to 5 pm, six days a week (closed Mondays) .
Group tours are possible at other times (including in the winter) by advance arrangment.
Contact office@boalmuseum.com or 814-466-9266
Calendar news:
Join the Boal Mansion family as a volunteer guide (aka "docent.")
Call to schedule your docent orientation/free tour with refreshments:
Contact office@boalmuseum.com or 814-466-9266.
For more details, click on "Volunteer Info" in the menu above.
"Music at the Boal Mansion" will take place
Saturday, May 12, 2012, at 7 pm (not 8 pm) with the Penn State School of Music.
Join us for classical music, champagne and lots of fine food.
Schedule for Wedding and Reception Site Rental for 2012:
The following summer Saturdays in 2012 are open for weddings and receptions through the evening hours. Saturday, May 12, 2012 Saturday, June 2, 2012 Saturday, July 14, 2012 Saturday, August 4, 2012 Saturday, August 25, 2012 Saturday, September 1, 2012 Saturday, September 22, 2012 and beyond. Other Saturdays are also available but the receptions on the main south lawn need to end by 7 PM to avoid conflict with the Boal Barn Playhouse which shares the parking area and whose plays start at 8 p.m. Wedding receptions on the north lawn or on the south lawn on Sundays can go later into the evening. For details, click on "Weddings and Receptions" in the menu above. |
Boal Mansion Concert/Reception to Feed Both Body and Soul Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Cecilia Dunoyer (right), shown by the Steinway grand piano in the 1898 ballroom of the Boal Mansion Museum, will join clarinetist Anthony Costa (left) and other members of the Pennsylvania Woodwind Quintet at 7 PM on Saturday, May 12, 2012, for “Music at the Boal Mansion,” a benefit concert/reception hosted annually by the Boal Mansion Museum and the Penn State School of Music. For ticket information, contact the Boal Mansion Museum at 814-466-6210 or office@boalmuseum.com. For details, click here. Mimi Boal Lee, sixth generation Boal, Senior Olympic champion, and First Lady of Maryland, dies at 91 years of age.Sad news: On August 9, sixth generation Boal, Mathilde "Mimi" Boal Lee died in Silver Spring, Maryland. A Museum board member since its inception in 1952, Mimi Lee was equally at home in the highest political circles (she was the wife of Maryland Governor Blair Lee III) and in the wildest places (she hiked the Appalachian Trail and, in Spain, the Way of Saint James of Compostello). She was a faithful supporter of the museum function here and will Rest in Peace in the Boal family crypt beneath the Columbus Chapel.
For the Washington Post's obituary article about her, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mimi-lee-wife-of-former-maryland-governor-blair-lee-iii-dies-at-91/2011/08/11/gIQAuzlU9I_story.htmlweeblylink_new_window |
