Children and parents explore Henry Mercer’s castle from basement to tower and learn about Mercer’s creative ideas through stories and prints. Children must be 6 or older and able to climb steep stairs. $10 adults, $9 seniors, $4 youth (age 6-17), $7 BCHS member adults, $3 BCHS member youth. Reservations required, call 215-348-9461.

View nearly one hundred works of fine and folk art across three centuries in this rare glimpse at the Mercer Museum’s extraordinary painting collection, housed in the Museum’s elegant Elkins Gallery. Included are works by such noted artists as Charles Willson Peale, Edward Hicks, Thomas Hicks, Martin Johnson Heade, William Trego, Thomas Otter, R. Sloan Bredin, and Daniel Garber. Selections from the Museum’s collection of oil on canvas paintings are supplemented by seldom-seen miniatures and works on paper, including some recently acquired works never before exhibited. Show runs through March 7. Included with museum admission.

Celebrate President’s Day, with food historian Susan Plaisted, as she prepares, cooks, and interprets some of the favorite fare of our first president in the Mercer' Museum's Log House.  Learn about Washington's favorite breakfast-mush cakes with butter and honey.  Visitors can help prepare the breakfast by grinding corn in a quern. Included with museum admission.

Children, ages 6-12, will examine Henry Mercer’s Babylonian tablets, practice cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing and make their own Babylonian tablets. $6 youth/$5 member youth. Registration required, call 215-348-9461.

Temple University Professor of African-American Studies Nilgun Anadolu-Okur narrates the stories of individuals who worked not only to aid runaway slaves on the trail to freedom, but also those determined to capture fugitives for a lucrative bounty. Coinciding with African-American History Month, this slide-illustrated talk captures some of the many gripping incidents involving Pennsylvania freedom fighters, spies and passengers on the Underground Railroad. $8/$6 BCHS members. Seating is limited; call 215-345-0210 ext. 123.