Reading Public Museum (RPM)Located about an hour east of Harrisburg in Reading, this is an art museum, planetarium, and arboretum all in one. A gem not far from the Harrisburg area, the RPM features European, American, Modern & Contemporary fine art including over 1,000 paintings. Important artists represented in the collection include Edgar Degas, Frederic Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, John Singer Sargent, N.C. Wyeth, Raphaelle Peale, William Merritt Chase, George Bellows, John Sloan, and Milton Avery. The museum also curates an impressive collection of American Impressionist paintings including works by Childe Hassam, Edward Willis Redfield, William Langson Lathrop, Robert Reid, Frank Weston Benson, Cecelia Beaux, Colin Campbell Cooper, Daniel Garber, J. Alden Weir, and John Henry Twachtman.