Current Changing Exhibits

Ocean

Fraktur Gallery

July - August 2025

The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center again is thrilled to be chosen again to display an international traveling quilt exhibit from Carrefour, the European Quilt Show. The thirty quilts on views this year explore the theme of “Ocean.” With oceans covering 70% of the planet, the chosen quilts explore ocean as a favorite seaside holiday or the sanctuary of animal and plant diversity. Colorful and diverse in their technique, the quilts share “light and secrets that takes us to the depths of a yet little-explored underworld!”

Changing Exhibit Spaces

Fraktur Gallery on Ground Floor

Often showcasing our large Schwenkfelder fraktur collection, this gallery also is used for other small exhibits. During the Penn Dry Goods Market, the Fraktur Gallery is often home to special textile exhibits.

Art Gallery on First Floor

The Art Gallery is home to smaller exhibits of local artists and a variety of short-term exhibits featuring the permanent collection. Occasionally the Art Gallery also serves as overflow space for exhibits in the adjacent Dolloff Local History Gallery.

Dolloff Local History Gallery on the First Floor

The Dolloff Local History Gallery is specifically dedicated to exhibits with a non-Schwenkfelder focus. In the past, exhibits on community history, both broadly, such as on local and regional historic architecture and Native American presence, and more specifically, including historical overviews of our local municipalities and organizations, have been held in the gallery.

Putera Meeting Room on the First Floor

The walls of the Putera Meeting Room are often lined with artwork by local artists, both as individual and group shows. When not being used as an art space, quilts are often exhibited in this room, and it also has hosted student art exhibits from our local schools.

Artists who are interested in exhibiting in the Putera Meeting Room or the Art Gallery should contact Candace Perry, Curator of Collections, at 215-679-3103 or candace@schwenkfelder.org for more details.