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Iron Hill Museum, Newark, DE

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Iron Hill Museum

A Newark, Delaware museum of natural science exhibits, now operated under the name Iron Hill Science Center.

1115 Robert L. Melson Lane, Newark, DE 19702 · Newark, DE

About Iron Hill Museum

The Iron Hill Museum, now run as the Iron Hill Science Center, presents natural history displays covering insects, fossils, rocks and minerals, taxidermy animals, and plants. The Delaware Academy of Science owns and operates it. Its collections were first housed in a 1923 schoolhouse built to educate African American students from the Iron Hill Village area, and visitors can ask staff to see that building and its exhibits. Wikipedia says the museum occupied a former African-American school from 1968 and moved into a new building in 2016.

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