The Michener's Next Free Sunday Is December 13
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
By Nick Rau | Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily | November 8, 2026
A free museum afternoon belongs on the December calendar: the Doylestown-Buckingham Record lists Sunday, Dec. 13, 2026, from noon to 5 p.m. Eastern, as a free Second Sunday at the Michener.
The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown has a December date worth planning around. The museum's official ticket portal says admission is free on the second Sunday of each month in 2026, with no reservations required for those dates. The Doylestown-Buckingham Record's Nov. 5 report specifically lists Dec. 13, noon to 5 p.m., and says the free days include the exhibitions on view. That puts a visit to the museum at 138 South Pine Street on the calendar without the usual admission charge.
Dec. 13 is the second Sunday of December. The Record lists the museum's regular Sunday hours as noon to 5 p.m.; the times in this guide are Eastern. Regular adult admission is $15 on the museum's ticket portal, but its 2026 Second Sunday policy waives admission and says reservations are not required. That statement concerns museum admission, not a promise that separately ticketed workshops or programs are included or available.
The Record reports that Art Bridges Foundation supports the free days and that the 2026 program ends in December. That is the newspaper's reporting about the 2026 program, not an announcement of permanent cancellation or a claim about what the museum will offer in 2027. Recheck the museum's schedule before traveling, particularly as the December date gets closer.
The North American Reciprocal Museum Association lists The Crossing: Picturing the American Revolution as on view through Jan. 10, 2027. Its description presents new perspectives on George Washington's 1776 Delaware River crossing, with artists including Edward Hicks, Ai Weiwei, vanessa german, Kent Monkman, Mark Thomas Gibson and Robert Beck. The published end date extends beyond Dec. 13, making it a show to consider for that visit if the schedule remains unchanged.
The Record also reports that Barbara Moon Boertzel: Listening to Time runs through April 18, 2027, citing Bucks County Magazine for that date. The New Hope fiber artist's first museum retrospective surveys 16 works spanning more than four decades of handmade paper and stitchery. The newspaper says the free days include the Boertzel show and all exhibitions on view. These published schedules support a December plan, but they are not a guarantee that no gallery or schedule will change before the visit.
When is the December free Second Sunday at the Michener? The Record lists Sunday, Dec. 13, 2026, noon to 5 p.m. Eastern, at 138 South Pine Street in Doylestown.
Do I need a reservation for free admission? The museum's ticket portal says reservations are not required for its free 2026 Second Sundays. Separate programs may have different arrangements; this guide does not promise workshop access.
Does the free program continue in 2027? That has not been established by the sources checked for this article. The Record says the 2026 program ends in December; do not read that as a permanent end to free admission.
My Doylestown guide and Bucks County neighborhood guides have more on the area around the museum.
Dec. 13 is the date to put on the calendar, then recheck with the museum before heading over: noon to 5 p.m. Eastern, with no admission reservation required under the posted 2026 Second Sunday policy. I'm Nick Rau with the Rarity Real Estate Team, ranked in the Top 1% of agents nationally (RealTrends 2025, individual), and I live right here in Bucks County. Questions about Doylestown? Call (215) 593-7498 or email [email protected].
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Photo: Smallbones / Wikimedia Commons, "Michener Museum Dtown," released by its creator into the public domain (status marker). March 6, 2010 FILE PHOTO of the museum's upper stone facade, not the Dec. 13 event or current exhibitions. Cropped to exclude an obsolete exhibition banner and ground-level snow; naturally darkened with neutral scrims. No architecture or scenery generated or altered. No endorsement implied.
Sources re-read November 8, 2026: official museum ticket portal; Doylestown-Buckingham Record, Nov. 5, 2026; North American Reciprocal Museum Association. The museum's program page returned403, so Dec. 13 hours and exhibition inclusion remain explicitly newspaper-attributed rather than newly museum-confirmed. Details may change.
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