DELAYS POSSIBLE -- allow time in your schedule for security processing into the Capitol.

Visitors must use the public entrances - East Wing Entrance at the Fountain on Commonwealth Avenue (also the handicapped entrance), and the Main Rotunda Entrance at Third and State Streets.

Groups of 25 or more MUST enter through the East Wing. Weekend and holidays this access must be pre-arranged.

All visitors - no exceptions - to the PA State Capitol will be processed through metal detectors. All bags and packages will be x-rayed, and are subject to hand inspection. Personal items may be hand-inspected. Security screening may require whole body pat-down. Confiscated materials will NOT be returned.

Persons have the right to refuse any or all of these security screening procedures. Entry to the building will be denied. Items may not be delivered or left behind.

Visitors exiting the Capitol must be reprocessed for return entry.

For additional information on security, please visit the website of the Bureau of Police and Safety, Capitol Police.