Science museum · Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia's landmark science museum, home of the giant walk-through heart and the Fels Planetarium.
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
America's oldest natural science research institution, founded in 1812, with dinosaur skeletons, dioramas and a live butterfly room.
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Barnes Foundation
Albert Barnes's extraordinary collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and more, hung as he arranged it.
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Mütter Museum
The College of Physicians' famous museum of medical history, with anatomical specimens, antique instruments and curiosities.
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Eastern State Penitentiary
A vast 1829 prison, its cellblocks left in haunting ruin, where Al Capone once served time; now a museum about American justice.
