Penn-Brad Oil Museum

This museum is a gem! It's not much to look at from the outside but inside is a great selection of memorabilia from the early days of the oil boom in Bradford. If you're lucky, you'll be there at the same time as Mr. Fran Bottone, the museum manager. He can answer any and all questions that you may have.

This is a great museum to go to learn about the early days the oil drilling in Pennsylvania in the United States they have a lot to see this is a very educational Museum for the young people an old it's great for the whole family and all these groups we had a great time up here of learning and we highly recommended to everybody we believe that you will have a good time as well

Fran gave us a very fun informative tour of the museums. So many great facts and stories that are very interesting, I so glad we visited.

I didn't think I'd enjoy this Museum but I really learned a lot. Would have spent more time there but it was past lunch time

Worth it even if you don't know anything about the oil business. The big tool shop was great and has an exhibit you've probably never seen before. The host was very knowledgeable and took time to explain the items we were interested in. Wish there was more worthwhile things in the gift shop: reproduction maps of the wells or replicas of the nitro canisters would have been a hoot.

What a great museum! So much to see and learn about the oil industry. Plan on spending a few hours or more! Amazing staff full of knowledge.

Amazing serendipitous find as we drove from Virginia to Niagara. Saw the sign, pulled over just to stretch our legs, and it was wonderful. Curator was incredibly entertaining and informative. Learned so much!

Awesome! So much history in one spot. Extremely knowledgeable staff. We will definitely stop back again.

Nice smaller museum filled with old oil mining stuff and scale models of the drilling rigs. Knowledgeable tour guide explains the history of the mining town and shows the real life sized oil derrick outside the museum.

Who knew, birth place of oil drilling and production in the US! Small footprint but huge on information. Lots of history here.

If you think an oil museum is not interesting you are wrong, so neat to hear about our area. You will find yourself saying "I didnt know that, that's interesting " more than you thought

Very interesting tour guide. Lots of old things.

Visited on open house, and was late. But the guys still let us watch a video and tour the place. We will be back to check the whole place out!

Great museum! Great tour guide.

If you're visiting the Bradford area stop here first. You'll learn a ton about the area, have a great experience learning about the local oil history as well as get some fun advice on other items to visit. Local knowledge! We'll be back.

Great local museum to check out in Bradford, PA. The curator was extremely knowledgeable and demonstrated several oil exhibits, including a working engine that would have been used for oil recovery. The museum is very clean, and the displays are well done.

I was so impressed. I learned so much. The tour was awesome and the guide was incredible. I could tell he enjoys what he does. I was smiling in amazement the whole time.

I learned so much from this visit, and had just a wonderful time. It is easily worth the entrance fee, and would be even if they doubled it. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the area history of oil and gas, and have some great demonstrations.

We love history and on our last visit two years ago we were give a great tour about Pennsylvania oil and Kendal oil Corp. Lots of great info about the early days of oil good and bad. Well worth a stop. Opens June 30 and we will be there.

A really nice museum with alot of history and so much information. The woman who gave us a tour. Could answer any questions we had wil alot of accurate info and examples. I would highly recommend this place for anyone who is interested in history or geology. So stop and learn why pennsylvania oil is/was so sought after for it qualities. And enjoy a few hours where your kids put away their phones.

Really informational
If your in the area make it a stop for sure
good displays and presentations
Thank you so much for keeping american history alive