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Valley Forge & Montgomery County are home to more than 200 arts attractions, featuring live music venues, award-winning playhouses, historic movie theaters, amazing architecture, museums and art galleries, gardens and arboretums. The Arts Montco guide is designed to inspire you to explore the arts in Montgomery County and help you discover an amazing arts destination perfect for your next weekend getaway or staycation.
You don’t need to venture into the city to
experience the arts. Award-winning theater and the same talented actors are right here in Montco! And a night at the theater is much more enjoyable in our charming communities, which offer free parking, delicious dining at over 1,600 restaurants, and homegrown hospitality in our 75 hotels and on our many main streets from Ambler to Pottstown. The Centre Theater in Norristown, where Mark
Twain once performed, just opened its doors after a major renovation.
With spring right around the corner, you’ll want to explore the great outdoors in our gorgeous gardens and arboretums, like Stoneleigh: A Natural Garden, now open to the public, and the new John James Audubon Center for Art and Conservation at Mill Grove, which opens this summer.
Looking for live music and fun festivals? Don’t miss the world-famous Philadelphia Folk Festival – the longest continuously running outdoor musical fest in North America. Philadelphia Orchestra to the 90-year-old Keswick Theatre for a special performance
The Montgomery County Studio Tour returns this summer! And Big Apple Circus will make its Montco debut at The Fairgrounds in Oaks, which will also welcome back Cirque du Soleil.
These marquee events want to #MakeItMontco and so should you. What are you waiting for? Please use this guide as a starting point to get out and explore! And we hope that you’ll come back for more.
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