Researchers also have come from Bryn Mawr, Widener, West Chester and James Madison universities, as well as the University of Nebraska. A popular site for weddings, the museum has been featured in regional and national publications, including Victoria, Victorian Home and Decoration, Mid-Atlantic Country and Philadelphia Bride. They experience a sense of discovery. People also feel at home at Rockwood, he adds. There are no roped-off areas.
Visitors can tour in a relaxed fashion, walking into the rooms and seeing life as it was.
Braunlein talks proudly of the partnership between the museum and the Friends of Rockwood, a 350-member, volunteer support group. Before the public-private partnership concept was in vogue, Rockwood was a model. Some staff and volunteers consider the last description quite appropriate, especially since a significant number of unusual events have contributed to the lore of the 19th-century, gray stone, Gothic museum. But, I'm a ghost agnostic. I tend to believe that there are events that are influenced by our sense of imagination.