South Jersey's Edelman Fossil Park & Museum delayed its opening to March 2025. Here's what to know about Rowan University's new dinosaur museum.
The $73-million attraction will boast real fossils, dinosaur exhibits, and free-roaming virtual reality.
A child explores exhibits at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum in Mantua Township, N.J. in 2024. The park, just a 20-minute drive from Philadelphia, is opening in March 2025.. Now, with winter just a month away, Rowan University and its stakeholders announced last week that they’re now planning for a spring opening.“The opening of Edelman Fossil Park & Museum marks a momentous occasion for our region and for visitors from around the world.
“The facility is going to be world-class,” Edelman told NJ.com at the time. “The construction quality is outstanding. The exhibits are astonishing and everyone’s going to love it.”boasts full-scale recreations of 66-million-year-old creatures, live animal exhibits, and a quarry where 100,000 fossils have already been found and where guests can dig for fossils themselves.
“The fossils unearthed here tell the epic story of life’s fragility and resilience, weaving a cautionary tale that frames our present challenges and provides a road map towards a more sustainable tomorrow,” Lacovara said., one that’s teeming with ancient artifacts, according to the museum. Nearly a mile from the park is where the first-ever Tyrannosaur skeleton, the Dryptosaurus, was discovered, which will be recreated as a life-size replica at the park.
the first of its kind to be discovered, was found an hour from the park in Hornerstown, N.J., and less than an hour outside of Philadelphia, the “Mannington Mastodon” skeleton was unearthed in 1869.
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