Category Archive: News

Our popular rail tours to Altoona are back, coming Oct. 7, 14 & 21! We’ll take the train to Altoona and enjoy the fall foliage, and visit some of Altoona’s most important rail history sites. For details on the tours …

Johnstown’s popular beer tasting festival is back on September 30! Tickets for the festival are available online now, or in person at the Heritage Discovery Center — no tickets will be sold at the gate, so …

The Johnstown Slavic Festival is coming up on September 23, and as part of that event we’re excited to announce the Baba’s Famous Nutroll contest! If you think you or your organization have a nutroll recipe that is the most scrumptious, …

Don’t miss our signature event, coming August 4-5 at Peoples Natural Gas Park! Complete information at www.floodcitymusic.com, or get your tickets online now!

Volunteers get free admission the day they work and a T-shirt! Contact (814) …

For 17 years, Gwen Harnett has been the center of all things JAHA — in no small part due to her grace, patience and finely-tuned sense of humor. Her last day at JAHA is today — June 16, 2017. All …

JAHA is delighted to announce the Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Concert Series at Peoples Natural Gas Park! These shows are free and open to the public. Our first show is set for Saturday, June 17 and will feature Johnstown …

Under the direction of Paul Rosenblatt, Principal architect of Springboard Design, Leah Wulfman has begun working with JAHA Curator Kaytlin Sumner to continue planning the new exhibition for the Johnstown Flood Museum. Springboard Design, a Pittsburgh-area architecture …

The Johnstown Area Heritage Association has gotten a significant boost to our $2.5 million campaign, “For The Future: A Campaign for the Johnstown Flood Museum,” with the endorsement of David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author!

McCullough, who first rose to prominence …

Online giving is now available on our website for our Annual Fund, the Campaign for the Johnstown Flood Museum, and the Stone Bridge Project Maintenance Fund! This is made possible through a partnership with the Community Foundation …

The gift shop at the Heritage Discovery Center offers a variety of unique gifts for the holidays — stop in anytime the museum is open! In addition to an assortment of Johnstown-imprinted items, we are proud to offer:

Handmade gifts from Slovakia, from the …