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Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down

NPR · Oct 3, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.

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