The Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance seeks to create a museum and interpretive center to educate visitors from around the world on the history of intellectual and developmental disability

With its unmistakable architectural design and signature cupola perched atop the roof, the Pennhurst State School & Hospital's Administration Building is often the first image to come to mind when

"Picking Peas, 1918 Trustees Report," Photo used with permission from the Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance. In 1903, the Pennsylvania State Legislature authorized the founding of

In 1978 a memorial stone was erected at Pennhurst to remember those who had died there. The institution finally closed permanently nine years later in 1987. Photo courtesy of El Peecho's Pennhurst Information,