Beat the winter doldrums and the recession with a visit to The Academy of Natural Sciences, where admission is two for the price of one on Tuesdays throughout March.
From March 1 through 31, admission to America’s oldest natural history museum will be buy one, get one free. (Offer pertains to admission of equal or lesser value.) Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, college students, children 3–12, and military personnel. Members and children under 3 are free. There is a $2 fee for "Butterflies!"
Enjoy a trip around the world and back in time without leaving home. Here are some things you can do at the Academy to cure cabin fever this winter:
Warm up in "Butterflies!," a tropical garden filled with live, fluttering butterflies from around the world. Our naturalist will narrate how a butterfly emerges from a chrysalis—while you watch it happen.
Journey back millions of years by strolling among towering skeletons in Dinosaur Hall.
Travel to exotic locations as you take in the historic dioramas depicting wildlife from America, Africa, Asia and the Arctic
Enjoy a nature video on our high-definition, big-screen auditorium projection system.
Visit the library, where you can view treasures from rare book collections, including John James Aubudon’s famous double elephant folio "The Birds of America," purchased by the Academy from the artist-naturalist himself.
Learn how the Academy became the first museum in the world to display a dinosaur skeleton and what role New Jersey played in the exhibit "Hadrosaurus foulkii: The Dinosaur That Changed the World."
Explore your local watershed and find out how you can be an environmental steward in the interactive computer exhibit "Living Downstream."
Have an affordable, heart-healthy lunch (that you don’t have to cook yourself!) in the Ecology Café.
Meet our live birds, iguanas, tortoises, and cute, furry animals and learn about the shrinking habitats where they live in the wild.
The best time for adults without children to visit is in the afternoon. .
For more information: http://www.ansp.org/.
Location: 19th St. & Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
This event is appropriate for all ages
Cost: Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, college students, children 3–12, and military personnel. Members and children under 3 are free. There is a $2 fee for "Butterflies!"
