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Zoo · Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Philadelphia Zoo

A giant tortoise walking across the grass at the Philadelphia Zoo
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

America's first zoo, opened in 1874, with big cats, primates and Zoo360 trails that let animals roam over visitors' heads.

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Shofuso Japanese Cultural Center

    Public Garden · 1 miles away

  • Eastern State Penitentiary

    Historic Site · 1 miles away

    A vast 1829 prison, its cellblocks left in haunting ruin, where Al Capone once served time; now a museum about American justice.

  • Calder Gardens

    Public Garden · 1 miles away

  • Barnes Foundation

    Museum · 1 miles away

    Albert Barnes's extraordinary collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and more, hung as he arranged it.

  • Franklin Institute

    Science museum · 2 miles away

    Philadelphia's landmark science museum, home of the giant walk-through heart and the Fels Planetarium.

  • Penn Museum

    Museum · 2 miles away

    The University of Pennsylvania's archaeology and anthropology museum, with a colossal Egyptian sphinx and treasures from the royal tombs of Ur.