The Wagner Free Institute of Science, where little has changed since 1855, including the website

Posted on | July 5, 2007 | No Comments

If you have never been to the Wagner in North Philly out by Temple, you’re missing out on a unique experience. It is a well-preserved nineteenth century natural history museum, essentially unchanged since Joseph Leidy rearranged an overgrown cabinet of curiosities to reflect the latest of that new-fangled idea called evolution.

The museum itself is relatively the same since Leidy fiddled with it. The museum community, however, has a continued student and adult outreach program (often off campus at more, ahem, accessible locations).

Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone has updated their website since April, which is a shame since I was hoping to attend one of their classes this fall.

If they do have something going on, I want to know. If they don’t, I want to know why this institution has gone silent.

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