Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Juneteenth Free Museum Day

About this event

Philadelphia's only Victorian house museum opens free of charge for Juneteenth weekend as part of Wawa Welcome America's Free Museum Days, located in historic Germantown just blocks from the Johnson House Underground Railroad site. Docents lead tours that trace daily life through the Civil War and Gilded Age inside the 1859 Norman-Gothic mansion, with interpretation that surfaces the labor of the Irish, German, and African American domestic workers who actually ran the household. Juneteenth programming emphasizes the role of Germantown's Black community in the Underground Railroad and abolitionist movement, and visitors are encouraged to combine the visit with the nearby Johnson House Historic Site. Tours run continuously from 11 a.m.