Academy of Natural Sciences

The country's oldest natural history museum has plenty of kid-pleasing exhibits, including a hot and humid butterfly room with live specimens, and a terrific dinosaur exhibition where you can dig for fossils and bones. You can also watch scientists extracting fossils from stone.

The museum was founded in 1812 and has been in this building since 1868. It's now part of Drexel University.

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