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Academy of Natural Sciences

Tel: 215/299-1000
Philadelphia PA 19103, USA
If you're looking for dinosaurs, the academy is the best place to find them. Kids love the big diorama halls, with cases of various species mounted and posed in authentic settings. A permanent display...
Adventure Aquarium

Tel: 866/451-2782
1 Aquarium Dr Camden NJ, USA
The former New Jersey State Aquarium is seriously cool. The expansive facility has hippos you can watch bob for heads of lettuce, stingrays to touch in open tanks, jellyfish that morph before your eye...
American Swedish Historical Museum

Tel: 215/389-1776
1900 Pattison Ave Philadelphia PA, USA
Deep in South Philly, not too far from the sports complexes, is this pretty place where visitors can learn about the history of Swedes in the Americas. The house itself is modeled after a 17th-century...
Arch Street Meeting House

Tel: 215/627-2667
Philadelphia PA 19107, USA
This plain brick building dates from 1804, but William Penn gave the land to his Religious Society of Friends in 1693. In this capital city of Quakers, the Meeting House opens its doors to 12,000 loca...
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