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==  History  The museums purpose during the time was to for the "preservation of objects illustrations the flora and fauna of the state and mineralogy, geology, archaeology,arts and history." The State Museum of Pennsylvania mission statement was influenced by the many other state museums that were already established such as New York, Illinois and Indiana. Later in the year 1905,Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania signed Act 481 which is what gave the State Museum their 20,000 start-up money for the museum. The location for the the museum was one the second floor of the executive library when first established. ==

Exhibits
== The museum has many exhibits that showcase Pennsylvania history. The state museum divided there exhibits into three different categorizes; permanent, changing and online exhibits. Permanent exhibits are things that have been there since the beginning. One of the popular exhibits is Memorial hall, which is a hall dedicated to the founder of Pennsylvania William Penn. Also, there is a section called Pennsylvania Icons that has more than 350 items in the collection. This is collection has everything that influenced the state of Pennsylvania. The second category is changing, which is keeping the visitors updated on what is happening or going to happen the exhibit. For example, on of the mammal exhibits is getting little new updates to the different exhibits. The newest things added to the state Mueusm is the online exhibits that can be found on their official website (http://statemuseumpa.org/). Not only can you look at different exhibits online you they are interactive as well. ==