The Schisler Museum of Wildlife & Natural History and McMunn Planetarium at East Stroudsburg University has set its summer hours. Both facilities are open Saturdays from 10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m., and from June 7 through August 20, they will also be open Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. Both facilities are open for a single admission price.<\/p>\n
ESU\u2019s Warren E. \u201955 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center houses a state-of-the-art planetarium as well as a world-class museum with more than 130 taxidermy exhibits, a 300-gallon aquarium, and insects from around the globe.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of the museum\u2019s taxidermy exhibits were collected and donated by East Stroudsburg University alumni Arthur \u201962 and Fannie Greene \u201962 Schisler. The McMunn Planetarium is named in honor of ESU supporters and alumni Charles A. \u201cTony\u201d \u201969 and Patricia Lythgoe \u201968 McMunn.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe museum and planetarium are truly meant to be a place of excitement for explorers of all ages. We want to invite the community to experience the wonder of discovery at ESU,\u201d said Catherine Klingler, curator.<\/p>\n
General admission for the production is $6; $4for senior citizens and children ages 3-17; and free for ESU students with ID and children under two-years-old. For membership inquiries visit esu.edu\/museum<\/a>. Anyone interested in museum and planetarium activities can contact Klingler at\u00a0smcurator@esu.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 570-422-2705.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Schisler Museum of Wildlife & Natural History and McMunn Planetarium at East Stroudsburg University has set its summer hours. Both facilities are open Saturdays from 10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m., and from June 7 through August 20, they will also be open Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. Both facilities are open for a single admission price.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,22,219,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-facebook","category-museum","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14446,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438\/revisions\/14446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}