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Wilderness Wildlife Museum

Rector, Pennsylvania

Specialized

The main focus of the WWM is education, and there are three main areas of focus:

  1. The history, culture, practice and ethics of hunting and field sports all over the world.
  2. The biology of plants and animals native to the United States and another part of the world. Every year, we will look at a different continent.
  3. The impact of human activities on the global environment and local ecosystems and how individuals can practice environmental stewardship in everyday life
We offer education courses for various ages on wilderness first aid (for professionals and laymen) as well as wilderness firearm safety.

General, History, Library, Park, Specialized

Our remarkable collections have existed for more than 85 years, beginning as a private passion of our founder W. Emmert Swigart. His son, William E. Swigart, Jr., fell under the spell of these wonderful machines and built up the collection to about 150 cars, of which 30 to 35 are on display at the museum at one time. Some are one-of-a-kind, such as the 1936 Duesenberg 12 cylinder Gentlemen’s Speedster, the 1920 Carroll, and the 1916 Scripps-Booth. The Swigart Museum is the only automobile museum in the country where visitors can see two Tuckers, the 1947 “Tin Goose” Prototype and #1013.