Space Farms Zoo and Museum

Coordinates: 41°12′35″N 74°41′35″W / 41.2096°N 74.6930°W / 41.2096; -74.6930
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Space Farms Zoo and Museum
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41°12′35″N 74°41′35″W / 41.2096°N 74.6930°W / 41.2096; -74.6930
Date opened1927
Location218 County Road 519, Sussex, NJ 07461
Websitewww.spacefarms.com

Space Farms Zoo and Museum is a roadside zoo and historical museum in Sussex County, New Jersey, currently owned by New Jersey Assemblyman, Parker Space.

The zoo was founded in 1927 and is home to more than 500 live animals, including some endangered species.[1]

Space Farms hosted a large bear in captivity exhibition,[2] which showcased a Kodiak bear named Goliath, as part of a taxidermy exhibit in the main hall of the museum.[3] After his death in 1991, his large skull was put on display in the Space Farms' museum.

The Space Farms' museum houses

motorcycles.[4] The vehicles are largely unrestored. There are also colonial period
tools and weapons on display.

Animals

According to the zoo's website,

African lions
, black leopards, South American jaguar, cougars, lynx, bobcats, Bengal tigers, as well as Grizzly bears, Hokkaido bears, Kodiak bears, and black bears.

Notes

  1. ^ Space Farms Zoo and Museum (zoo section)
  2. ^ Which is the largest bear on earth?
  3. ^ Strunsky, Steve. "ON THE MAP; A Zoo (and Much More) That Would Overwhelm Noah's Ark", The New York Times, October 19, 1997. Accessed October 11, 2007. "One of the permanent fixtures at Space Farms is Goliath, a 12-foot-tall, 2,000-pound Kodiak bear, who arrived as a cub 30 years ago and remains an attraction, having been stuffed after his death in 1991."
  4. ^ Krebs, Michelle. "Driving Back in Time: Auto Exhibits in the Mid-Atlantic States", The New York Times, August 20, 2006. Accessed October 11, 2007.
  5. ^ "Animals | Space Farms Zoo & Museum".

Further reading

  • Day, Lori S. The Zookeeper's Daughter PublishAmerica, 2004.
  • Day, Lori S. Zoo Momma Daylite Sales, 2016
  • Space, Fred. Ralph Space the Legend, The Story of Space Farms and Tales of Beemerville Privately Published, 2007.

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