Where else can you get your dinosaur fix in the Philly area?

The announcement Tuesday that Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University would be closing its museum doors later this month figures to leave a dino-sized hole in the city’s cultural landscape.

For years, the two-century-old museum has been a dinosaur enthusiast’s dream. In all, more than 30 species are highlighted in the heralded Dinosaur Hall — many in full skeletal representations. The permanent exhibit boasts a Torosaurus skull, dinosaur eggs, and a touchable T. rex bone fragment.

There’s still time to visit: The last day open to the public with regular business hours will be Sept. 27. There’s also a “Dinos After Dark” event slated for Sept. 18, complete with a beer garden and pay-as-you-wish pricing.

For those hoping to get their fossil fix in the future, meanwhile, rest easy: There remain other places in and around Philly with plenty of dinosaur-related programming.

Located just across the Delaware River in New Jersey — less than 20 miles from downtown Philadelphia — is Rowan University’s Edelman Fossil Park & Museum.

Opened a year and a half ago, the museum boasts a lineup heavy with dinosaurs and other extinct creatures: fossil teeth from the Cretolamna, an ancient shark that inhabited the state; a hadrosaur egg fossil; and full-scale renderings of dinosaurs from up and down the East Coast.

“We really feature the dinosaurs and other extinct creatures from New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” said Kenneth Lacovara, paleontologist and EFM’s founding executive director.

For an additional cost, patrons can also join an interactive fossil hunt at the museum’s 45-foot-deep quarry in Mantua, N.J., which over the past century has turned up more than 100,000 fossils.

🕒 Open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 💵 $29 for ages 13+, $24 for ages 3-12, free for ages 2 and under, 📍 66 Million Mosasaur Way,
Mantua, N.J. 08080, 🌐 efm.org

The Lancaster museum’s “Dinosaur Discovery Hall” exhibit seeks to get visitors up close and personal with “the fossils, minerals, and plant species in prehistoric life,” according to the venue website.

There’s a focus on the T. rex, and in the Paleontology Gallery, you can handle real bones and fossils.

🕒 Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 💵 $13 for general admission, 📍 400 College Ave., Lancaster, Pa. 17603, 🌐 northmuseum.org

The museum’s ongoing “Written in the Rocks: Fossil Tales of New Jersey” takes visitors more than 3.5 billion years into the past.

The star of the show might be the Dryptosaurus — reconstructed in life-size form for the first time — but there’s also a life-sized cast of a Hadrosaurus foulkii and a Mosasaurus maximus, plus a look at Ice Age creatures.

🕒 Tuesday through Sunday, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., 💵 Free, 📍 205 West State St., Trenton, N.J., 08608, 🌐 nj.gov

In 1891, the Wagner purchased a collection of Camarasaurus bones from the Colorado quarry of Edward Drinker Cope — which Cope’s assistant traveled to Philadelphia to help arrange. Today, the remains are still on display at the museum.

🕒 Tuesdays through Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and select Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m., 💵 Free, 📍 1700 W. Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19121, 🌐 wagnerfreeinstitute.org

Though Philly’s favorite hands-on museum isn’t currently hosting any fossil-related exhibits, the pint-sized dinosaur lovers in your life might enjoy the upcoming “Dino Day” later this month — a celebration of all things dino.

Kids can handle fossils, dig for bones, and take part in dinosaur-themed arts and crafts during this one-day event.

🕒 Sept. 12, 💵 $24 for general admission (discounts available), 📍 4231 Ave. of the Republic, Philadelphia, Pa. 19131, 🌐 pleasetouchmuseum.org

At roughly 400 million years old, there are worse places to go fossil hunting than this one-acre site of exposed shale located three hours northwest of Philly.

Once upon a time, the site was covered by water, and while you probably shouldn’t expect to come away with any velociraptor bones — the most common finds at the site are the fossils of small sea creatures — the site is free to the public, and visitors are welcome to keep any fossils they find.

🕒 Open daily from dawn to dark, 💵 Free admission, 📍 374 Preserve Road, Danville, Pa. 17821, 🌐 montourpreserve.org