Event Description
Pay what you wish to celebrate the day the Academy was founded! Bring your friends and family to enjoy dinosaurs, butterflies, and more! Please note: The special exhibit fee to see Dinosaurs Unearthed will still apply on this day. Supported by Pepper Hamilton LLP.
On March 21, you can see all of our signature exhibits, including our live butterflies, dinosaurs, dioramas, and our children’s discovery center. Stop in to the Café for lunch or a snack, and purchase some dino swag in the Gift Shop. Make sure you don’t miss:
Fossil Prep Lab
10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Watch as our staff, volunteers, and other skilled workers prepare fossils for study. A new set of T. rex fossils recently arrived and is on public view!
New hands-on Invertebrate Cart
10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Check out our creepy crawlies. Are you brave enough to touch them?
Science Live
10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Chat with an Academy educator as you investigate a dinosaur nest and learn about dinosaur moms and their babies. See a reconstruction of a baby dinosaur in an egg and compare it to modern eggs. Bring your questions!
Library Reading Room Open to the Public
1–4 p.m.
See treasures from our behind-the-scenes collections. View a ballot box used to vote on the acceptance of Academy members. Find out what it means that John James Audubon’s membership was originally “blackballed,” and view a copy of the original Academy Constitution.
Naturalist Presentation
2:30 p.m.
Join our teacher-naturalists as they explore natural history in an informal and interactive presentation involving live animals!
The Birds of America Page Turning
3:15 p.m.
Watch the daily page turning of John James Audubon's masterwork The Birds of America. Published from 1827–1838, this monumental work is arguably the most influential book on birds ever created.
New and Improved Outside In!
Open 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Meet live animals, view a stream from underneath, perch in an eagle’s nest, and dig for shark teeth!
Dinosaurs Unearthed will be open for the regular fee.
Last week! Closes March 30, 2014
$3 members
$5 Nonmembers
Roaring, moving, life-size, animatronic dinosaurs invade the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University for a multi-sensory experience for the whole family. State-of-the-art and scientifically accurate—down to the feathers on T. rex—Dinosaurs Unearthed features more than a dozen realistic, full-bodied dinosaurs, as well as skeletons, fossil casts of skulls, claws and horns, real specimens of mosasaur and spinosaurus teeth, an Oviraptor egg, and the ever-popular coprolite (dino poop). A dig site for young paleontologists, a Dino Detective touch-screen quiz, chances to control dinosaur movements, and other activities encourage exciting hands-on exploration. |
