FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I come dig in the quarry?
Our quarry digging experience will be a weather-permitting experience to add-on to your museum visit. It will be an incredibly unique and rewarding experience for people of all ages.
Our quarry digging experience will be a weather-permitting experience to add-on to your museum visit. It will be an incredibly unique and rewarding experience for people of all ages.
When can I buy tickets?
Tickets and memberships for the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum will be going live soon. Please sign up for our email list to be the first to hear about ticket and membership information.
Tickets and memberships for the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum will be going live soon. Please sign up for our email list to be the first to hear about ticket and membership information.
When will the museum open?
Edelman Fossil Park & Museum will be opening in March 2025, sign up for our emails to be the first to hear about ticket and membership information.
Edelman Fossil Park & Museum will be opening in March 2025, sign up for our emails to be the first to hear about ticket and membership information.
Did you REALLY discover dinosaur bones in Southern New Jersey?!
Believe it or not, New Jersey is a globally important location for paleontology. The first Tyrannosaur skeleton ever found, the predatory Dryptosaurus, was discovered about a mile from our museum in 1866 in Gloucester County. The first nearly-complete skeleton ever found in the world was unearthed right in nearby Haddonfield, New Jersey. Our fossil bed at the museum has yielded more than 100 species of marine and land animals, including the remains of bus-length mosasaurs, marine crocodiles, sea turtles, bony fish, shark teeth, brachiopods, marine snails, and much more.
Believe it or not, New Jersey is a globally important location for paleontology. The first Tyrannosaur skeleton ever found, the predatory Dryptosaurus, was discovered about a mile from our museum in 1866 in Gloucester County. The first nearly-complete skeleton ever found in the world was unearthed right in nearby Haddonfield, New Jersey. Our fossil bed at the museum has yielded more than 100 species of marine and land animals, including the remains of bus-length mosasaurs, marine crocodiles, sea turtles, bony fish, shark teeth, brachiopods, marine snails, and much more.