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Edelman Fossil Park & Museum

Edelman Fossil Park & Museum is a museum in Mantua Township, NJ, part of the Philadelphia guide. Cost: $25 to $50.

66 Woodbury Glassboro Rd · Mantua Township, NJ

Why you should go…

Built beside a quarry packed with marine fossils from the end of the dinosaur age, Rowan University's Edelman Fossil Park & Museum opened in 2025 with interactive extinction exhibits, a virtual reality chamber, a working fossil lab, and a paleo playground. On Community Dig Days visitors head into the quarry and keep what they unearth. It is the only active public fossil dig site east of the Mississippi River.

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