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The museum was founded in 1953 with help from local businessman Hugh M. North. [1] It became independent from the college in 1992. In 2014, the museum underwent a renovation before reopening in 2015. [2] [3]
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Nature dioramas, large mineral crystals, dinosaurs, live animals ACES Museum: Germantown: Military: Honors the black and minority veterans of World War II [1] [2] African American Museum in Philadelphia: Center City: Ethnic: Formerly known as Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum American Philosophical Society Museum: Center City: Multiple
Researchers have uncovered a "dinosaur highway" after hundreds of giant prehistoric footprints dating back 166 million years were found in an English quarry.
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Dinosaur tracks dating back to the Late Triassic were discovered near the Gettysburg battle sites in 1933. [27] Bradford Willard of the Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey discovered a dinosaur footprint in 1934 near New Cumberland while Route 111 was being widened.
The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long ...
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. Housing some 22 million specimens, the museum features one of the most extensive paleontological and entomological collections ...