Daytime Prison Tours
10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Every Day

Bring your Terror Behind the Walls ticket or ticket stub and save $5 on daytime admission or get a free ticket on October 3, 4, 5, 12, 15, 16, 21 & 22 at Free Historic Tour Ticket Night.

Admission for daytime historic tours is $12 for Adults and $8 for kids age 7 – 12. Bring your Terror Behind the Walls ticket or ticket stub and save $5 on daytime admission!

Eastern State is the world’s first true Penitentiary, a building designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of criminals. More than three hundred prisons are modeled after Eastern State’s distinctive wagon wheel floor plan. The prison remained open for 142 years.

Visitors explore Eastern State with the "Voices of Eastern State" Audio Tour, narrated by actor Steve Buscemi.

They see the luxurious cell where gangster Al Capone spent nine months. They learn the fate of 12 inmates who attempted a daring tunnel escape in 1945. And visitors hear first hand accounts of life in the cellblocks from former officers and inmates. Eight critically acclaimed art exhibits are also included with admission.

Many visitors take the daytime historic tour, have dinner in one of the wonderful neighborhood restaurants and stay in Fairmount for a fright-filled evening at Terror Behind the Walls.

To learn more about daytime historic tours (and Eastern State's history) visit our Historic Site page.

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