Daily News | Philly’s Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion closes. It’s ‘a loss to our community’
John Cambridge held Rosie the Chilean rose-haired tarantula gently in his fingers, and slowly, she crawled onto the palm of a young woman whose eyes were tightly shut.
“This has been a giant art project, and I’m being forced to destroy it,” Cambridge said Saturday. It’s especially painful, he said, “to see it destroyed for such a senseless and unjust court outcome as the one that ended up taking us down.”That case dates to 1989, when Insectarium founder Steve Kanya entered into a $350,000 mortgage agreement with Milton Rubin, since deceased, to purchase the museum’s building at 8046 Frankford Ave.
On Saturday, the museum’s regular visitors grieved the loss of the space, while newcomers cherished it for a final moment. As for its live inhabitants, the museum is working to ensure that most insects stay together, Cambridge said. Many will go to Wild Things Preserve, a conservation group based in Pipersville, Bucks County. Cambridge said the museum has given the group a temporary housing structure for the animals and insects as well as resources to be able to take care of them for about a year.
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