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The
Adventure Aquarium in Camden, New Jersey was the New Jersey
State Aquarium, and is now a for profit educational and
entertainment attraction that is located along the Delaware
River and run by the Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation,
originally opened in 1992, and then after being altered into its
present form, reopened in 2005, featuring about 8000 animals
that live in various forms of freshwater, semi-aquatic and
marine habitats. The total tank volume is more than 2 million
gallons, and almost 200,000 square feet of space. The aquarium
had been opened as the New Jersey State Aquarium at Camden, and
run by the nonprofit New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences
that was devoted to educating the public about marine life and
the conservation of its environments. The aquarium welcomed more
than 1.6 million visitors in its first year, but there soon
arose a controversy about the way it contained the animals,
sometimes making it sound like a prison for fish, and ready to
be demolished. There were numerous problems that had arisen
since its construction, especially the concrete construction
inside and out, with the tanks lined up like neat little boxes,
poorly lit, no themes, not much graphics and the small feel of
the main structure. But it would be the aquatic animals
themselves that seemed to showcase the worst of the features,
with just local native fishes being included in the exhibits,
mostly brown and grey, without much other colors to make it seem
more lifelike. By the end of their second year, their attendance
had fallen to just 400,000, and the aquarium underwent a very
intense rejuvenation, and didn't close, but continued to upgrade
and transform the enclosures while keeping them closed until
ready to be reopened. It did help somewhat, but not the effect
that was desired, so in 1999, the state began looking for
investors and found one in Steiner Associates, from Columbus,
Ohio that had been the impetus for the Newport Aquarium in
Kentucky. It would become the Adventure Aquarium and welcome two
million visitors during its first two years of operation, with
more attractions being enticed into relocating to the park area
along the waterfront; that included the Battleship New Jersey
Museum and Memorial, the Susquehanna Bank Center, the Victor
Lofts, the River Line light rail system, the Wiggins Park
Riverstage, the Camden's Children Garden, One Port Center and
Campbell's Field, which had become home to the minor-league
baseball team, the Camden Riversharks. In 2007, CURRENTS: the
Ballroom at Adventure Aquarium would be added filling a 9000
square foot area in the North Building. Steiner Associates would
sell out their interests in 2007 to the Herschend Family. 
The
Camden Children's Garden in Camden, New Jersey is run by the Camden
City Garden Club and sits along the magnificent waterfront, right
across from downtown Philadelphia, opened in 1999 and designed
specifically for kids and their families. The 4.5 acre garden
showcases a number of themed educational displays for children that
encourage them to play and imagine, like the Red Oak Run, Dinosaur
Garden, Tree House, Giant Picnic Garden, Cityscapes, Storybook
Garden and more. Interior exhibits include a Puerto Rican tropical
greenhouse display, Benjamin Franklin's Secret Garden and Workshop,
the Philadelphia Eagles Four Seasons Butterfly House and the Plaza
de Aibonito. A majority of these exciting and beautiful gardens and
displays had been part of the Philadelphia Flower Show originally
and have now found a permanent home here. The garden contains three
amusement types of rides that are the Spring Butterfly Ride, the
carousel and the Arrow River Express Train Ride. It is closed during
January and February, with garden festivals held during the months
of April through November, as well as the yearly holiday special,
the Festival of Lights. 
The
Camden County Historical Society sits on the eastern edge of
Collingswood, with a three building complex that is one of the
biggest public history facilities in the region, with the society
dedicated to preserving, celebrating and educating the community
about the county's specially diverse history and culture. The
society would begin in 1899, as a private nonprofit group that was
dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of
history in the form of historical resources, documents and relics
that pertain to Camden County and South Jersey. The complex contains
a museum, library, offices, 18th century mansion and auditorium that
contains over 20,000 square feet of space, as well as another 10,000
square feet for service and storage, with the auditorium housing
seating for 100. The Pomona Hall 18th century mansion began as a
simple small wood framed house in 1718, and over the years would
evolve into a magnificent mansion by 1788, after it had become the
residence of Marmaduke Cooper, one of the richest businessman in the
region. The mansion has been referred to as one of the best examples
of a Georgian style plantation houses in the state, and after its
complete renovation, it is now as splendid as it was during that
period when Cooper transformed it. It is a marvelous venue for
visitors to come and peruse, gaining a good sense of what the daily
life of people was back then, with every room creatively kept so
that the rooms seem to have a lived-in feeling. The outstanding
furnishings and furniture are from that period and showcase
perfectly what the rich would have in their homes during that time
and the many amenities and possessions that they craved as part of
their position. The spacious open hearth kitchen is fantastic with
the walk-in open hearth fireplace, with a fully functional kitchen
that offers visitors a glimpse into the traditional foods that were
prepared here as well as cooked over the open fire pit. As with most
houses of that period, and well into the 19th century, outside
gardens were kept to supplement, if not fully supply the house with
all the vegetables and other herbs and staples that were needed to
supply a well rounded meal. 
The
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is right
across the river from Camden, New Jersey and is the oldest natural
science research facility and museum in the nation, beginning in
1812, by a large group of leading naturalists from this new nation.
The group would instigate the cultivation of the sciences and
encourage those that lived here to become more involved in the
continued research of the natural sciences in relation to the new
country that they had formed. After almost two centuries of
existence, the academy has become the sponsor for numerous
expeditions, worked on environmental and systematics research and
gathered a huge natural history collection that has over 17 million
specimens. The academy has continued its long traditions of
educational programs for the community and the school age children,
along with many public exhibitions. In the first few decades of
existence, the nation was inhabiting mostly the eastern seaboard and
it would naturally become evident that Philadelphia was the cultural
capital and one of the new country's biggest commercial centers. The
Library Company and the American Philosophical Society would
eventually become important centers of enlightened thought and
scientific discoveries, sitting in the center of the city. Even with
these two outstanding facilities gathering as much information and
samples as they could about the new nation's environment, the task
at hand was becoming too large for either institution to handle, so
the great thinkers and scientists of the period decided that a large
organization would be the best tool to continue discovering the many
facets of life and the natural resources that were still waiting for
discovery. So, in the winter of 1812, a distinguished group of
naturalists started the academy, in hopes of encouraging more
naturalists to become involved in the continued discoveries and
growth of the American sciences. The group would often look to their
counterparts in Europe, for guidance, expertise and inspiration,
there was such a vast difference between the two continents and
their natural sciences and resources. After just a ten year period,
the academy would become the unquestionable leader of the natural
sciences in this country, with members constantly being asked to
help with the national surveys with the western lands and other
types of researches and expeditions. Some of the earliest members of
the academy would become leaders in their own area of expertise and
these included; John Godman, Titian Peale, William Bartram, Thomas
Say, Richard Harlan, Alexander Wilson, Charles Alexandre Lesueur,
Charles Pickering and William McClure. Other members that lived far
from the academy but did contribute to it and these included; Thomas
Jefferson from Virginia, John Edwards Holbrook of South Carolina,
Thomas Nuttall and Richard Owen of the United Kingdom, Alexander von
Humboldt of Prussia and George Cuvier of France. In the latter part
of the 19th century, other well known and famous naturalists and
scientists would become members, and these included; John James
Audubon, John Lawrence LeConte, John Cassin, Charles S. Boyer, James
Rehn, Ezra Townsend Cresson, Edward Drinker Cope, Richard Harlan,
Isaac Lea, Joseph Leidy, George Ord, Ferndinand V. Hayden and Samuel
Morton. The corresponding members include Charles Darwin, Thomas
Henry Huxley and Asa Gray, with numerous members from the 20th
century like, Ruth Patrick, James Bond, James Bohlke, Henry Weed
Fowler, Henry Pilsbry and Witmer Stone. Collections have
always been the centerpiece of museums and the magnificent and
expansive collections at the academy have grown to become one of the
finest in the world, as well as being decidedly important and
relavent to the world of science. The collections have grown
significantly, with more than 17 million biological specimens and a
plethora of reference materials that are included in the
collections. There are hundreds of thousands of journals, volumes,
photographs, books and archival materials in this excellent library.
And the spectacular collections aren't there just to collect dust
and fill rooms, but they are part and parcel of the vast cataloging
of nature that has been undertaken and blossomed during the past two
centuries. These collections have become invaluable aides in the
library of biodiversity and biological taxonomy, offering scientists
one of the most unimaginable reference materials in the world, and
allowing scientists from around the world to investigate, categorize
relationships, discover species identities, any kind of evolutionary
history and their conservation status. It would be a labororious
task to list just a part of the collections and the findings that
have been discovered over the centuries, so the best thing for
anyone interested in the marvelous collections is to travel to
Philadelphia and search the outstanding collections and specimens
yourself.
