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@globalmuseum@mastodon.online 45 min. ago

How The U.S.’s Oldest Natural History Museum Might Meet Its End.
Although the future of the museum and its more than 18 million specimens appears to rest in the hands of Drexel University and the city government, this problem is not unique to the Academy or even Philadelphia.
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

How The U.S.'s Oldest Natural History Museum Might Meet Its End | Defector

In 1858, William Parker Foulke, a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences—a group of naturalists committed to public education and outreach—was on vacation in the quiet Quaker community of Haddonfield, New Jersey. There, he befriended a local landowner, John Estaugh Hopkins, who showed him some unusually large vertebrae that had been dug up in…

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