Step into history and spirituality at Glencairn Museum | One Tank Trips

Nestled in the scenic Renathan Historic District of Montgomery County sits a castle-like mansion. You've probably seen it. It invites visitors to explore its remarkable collection of religious art and artifacts representing belief systems from all around the world. Action News content creator Bill Hartung takes us to the Glencairn Museum in today's One Tank Trip. People come here to enjoy the beauty of being in a space that might lead you to reflect on something or awaken on something. You could just come here and think it's a really cool castle. My name is Leah Smith and I'm a tour guide at Glencairn Museum. The physical structure of it was built between 1928 and 1939. It was built by Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn to be their family home. So there is a wow factor of when people walk around the corner from the entryway and they're not expecting it to see this beautiful monumental room that was the family living room but it looks like a church. And the amazing view from the tower. Almost every single tour we give gives you that amazing view from the tower. Raymond Pitcairn had collected medieval art and when the Bernathen Cathedral that's right across the street was finished he wanted to build a gallery to showcase his art collection but he was also living in Cairnwood Estate that's right next door and it wasn't large enough for his large family. He had nine children so he took all the craftsmen who helped him build the Bernathen Cathedral and brought them up here to build Glencairn. They chose imagery of lambs to reflect how important their family was to them. There's imagery for the United States of America because they loved their country. You see Christian imagery everywhere so you see their faith and they gradually started turning what used to be bedrooms here, 18 bedrooms originally, into galleries. We might go into Egypt and look at a beautiful object in Egypt. We have an amazing Egyptian collection and try to investigate what it says about the religious beliefs and the practices of the Egyptians. Humans are a wide tapestry and the best part of that is to see for a moment how another person might view life or faith and they did it in a very elaborate way. That was Action News content creator Bill Hartung reporting. If you're looking for a place to go and would like to see all of our one-tank trips we've created a page on our website you can check it out at sixabc.com slash one-tank trips or scan that QR code on your screen and it'll take you to the link.