Venango Museum of Art Science & Industry

A story of boom and bust writ large

This is a museum of local history that captures the 100+ history of oil in this remote pocket of Pa. The effort is well-intended but a bit fractured in its presentation and approach. The narrative cou...

A local museum that goes way above and beyond

If you want to know about the history of oil in Penn the layout, graphics and presentation and information provided get the job done. The museum skips the usual pioneers making candles and early cook...

Hidden gem! Do not miss!!!!

The history of this region is amazing when you think about the industrial development post petroleum! There is a theatre organ, and the tour and demonstration of this alone is worth the stop. Don’t...

Disappointing

This is more of an odd and eclectic group of small exhibits than a cohesive museum. There's a little local history; a little drilling and oil industry history (we had just been to the Drake Well museu...

A little old-fashioned but full of good things

We were doing an in-depth tour of the Oil Region and had done quite a lot of preparation so we found the museum to be very interesting. It had a variety of objects crammed into an awkwardly-designed s...