The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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America's oldest natural history museum, founded in 1812 on the Ben Franklin Parkway, with a genuinely magnificent dinosaur hall featuring full-scale mounted skeletons including a mid-action T. rex that stops kids in their tracks. Beyond the dinos there's a Dino Dig station for kids 4–10, a live butterfly garden where butterflies land on you, hands-on natural history galleries, and live animals throughout.