Penn State All-Sports Museum Tours
Parking
The Museum has parking on the west and south side of Beaver Stadium, use Pay Station or the ParkMobile App
Tours
If you would like a tour of the Penn State All-Sports Museum, please email psusportsmuseum@psu.edu
OPTION 1: Self-Guided Museum Experience
Guests may take as much time as they like to independently explore the various museum exhibits.
The museum has three galleries for visitors to experience:
- The Upper Gallery, focused on Indoor Varsity Sports (gymnastics, fencing, rifle, boxing, wrestling, basketball, volleyball, bowling, swimming and diving, and ice hockey)
- The Lower Gallery, focused on Outdoor Varsity Sports (track and field, cross country, tennis, golf,baseball, softball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and football, with special mention of cheerleading and the Blue Band)
- The Special Exhibit Gallery, which is currently displaying “I Am A Penn Stater: Nittany Lions in WWII."
This exhibit tells stories from over 1200 Penn State student-athletes who served in WWII, using their own words as expressed through letters and diary entries.
The exhibit features original photographs and artifacts drawn from our collection and contributed by their families. It will be on display for the next three years, until June 2025.
The museum galleries are all easily accessible to guests through the self-guided tour. Additionally, we always offer
complementary stadium views to our museum guests – staff members can take guests up to our Club level to get an
elevated view inside Beaver Stadium.
Standard suggested donation amount applies; no reservations needed.
OPTION 2: Docent-Guided Museum Experience
Docents can provide general overviews of Penn State’s entire varsity-level sports program history, or if guests have
particular interests, upon request they can provide more in-depth knowledge through focused discussions. A general
guided tour of the Upper and Lower Galleries usually takes about 45-60 minutes.
Docents can also provide overview and focused tours specifically of the WWII exhibit.
- The overview offers a general highlight tour of the major stories from pre-war, through the major campaigns across the various war theaters, and into the post-war recovery.
- We also have three focused exhibit tour options available for this exhibit:
• a look at our Nittany Lions who were involved in the Army Air Corps
• a focus on those who were captured and had experiences as POW’s
• a discussion of the women in service who came through Penn State as participants in
the Women’s Recreation Association (the forerunner to varsity athletics for women)
• In development: a look at those men and women who were involved in the medical
services during the war.
The WWII exhibit generally takes around 40-60 minutes to tour as a guided experience.
All guided gallery tours can also include a complementary stadium view upon request.
Standard suggested donation amount applies.
Tour must be arranged at least 2 weeks in advance of the visit
OPTION 3: BEAVER STADIUM TOUR
Also led by our docent corps, the stadium tour can be done in conjunction with the guided or self-guided museum tour,
or as a stand-alone experience.
The stadium tour includes:
the media room where Coach Franklin hosts press conferences
The stadium tour includes:
- home team locker room
- team tunnel and edge of the field (but NOT ON THE GRASS itself!)
- Letterman’s Club
- Recruiting Lounge
- Mount Nittany Club view
This tour by itself takes about 60-90 minutes; in conjunction with the guided museum tour, it would be around 2.5 hours.
There is a cost associated with the full stadium tour: $200 for the first 10 group members, and $15/person for each
additional. There is no additional charge for groups to add on the guided or self -guided museum tour with their stadium
tour experience. We have done stadium tours for groups as large as 80 people at once.
Reservations are an absolute must – in addition to scheduling docents, we must also get approval from stadium facilities
coordination to have guests in the stadium. Private stadium tours face additional scheduling limitations due to football
team activities, stadium preparation around games, and other major University events; there are no stadium tours
scheduled from Friday – Sunday of home football weekends or Spring Commencement weekend, or during the month of
April leading up to Blue-White Weekend and the entire month of August.
We offer ticketed public stadium tours during PSU Parents and Families Weekend and Arts Festival Weekend –
therefore there are no private stadium tours offered at those times
Parking
The Museum has parking on the west and south side of Beaver Stadium, use Paystation or ParkMobile App
Museum/ I am A Penn Stater Tours
Please contact Penn State All-Sports Museum, atl psusportsmuseum@psu.edu
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