Museums: Science. Hands On. Art. Space.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Science and Energy, Oakridge, TN

Exploratorium  "The museum of science, art and human perception" San Francisco's famous hands-on museum for kids of all ages.

Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia

Maryland Science Center

Miami Museum of Science.

Museum of Science, Boston

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

National Atomic Museum Albuquerque NM

Ontario Science Centre 

Pacific Science Center Seattle

Smithsonian Institution

Science Museum, London which is affiliated with the National Museum of Science and Industry

Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum, Tokyo 

Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose CA

The Liberty Science Center New Jersey

The Online Macromolecular Museum 

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

U. S. Science and Technology Museums  Links.

Yokohama Science Center Japan

Automotive Museums

Peterson Automotive Museum  

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village

Space Museums

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Art Museums

ArtMuseum.net is an Internet-based museum experience presented by Intel Corporation.

"At ArtMuseum.net we seek to collaborate with the world's leading museums and exhibitors and in so doing, enhance and extend the art museum experience by presenting major exhibitions, works, and other art-related content online, in a rich and interactive environment that encourages individual and group exploration and learning."

H. R. Giger Museum  "Welcome to the official Homepage of the acclaimed Swiss surrealist artist, H.R. Giger. A painter, sculptor, architect and designer, Giger is the originator of the unique Biomechanical style and the creator of the "Alien" lifeforms and their other worldly environment, as seen in the Twentieth Century Fox films."

The Art Car Museum  

M. C. Escher Art Museum 

Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum of Modern Art

The National Gallery of Art

The National Museum of Women in The Arts

The National Portrait Gallery

The Saint Louis Art Museum  

The Textile Museum 

See also Museums and Art Galleries on the Web

Historical Museums

National Civil Rights Museum

Edison Birthplace Museum

Media Museums

Newseum  "The Newseum, the only interactive museum of news, takes visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made. Visitors can be reporters or television newscasters; relive the great news stories of all time through multimedia exhibits, artifacts and news memorabilia; and see today’s news as it happens on a block-long video news wall."

Unusual Museums

The International Central Services Toaster Museum

Toasted Museum

Mystery Sea Museum of the Unknown

Museum of Menstruation

Madison Museum of Toilet Tissue

Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum

Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia

Leila's Hair Museum

Museum of Questionable Medical Devices "Devious Displays of Quackery, Fraud, Deceit and Deception -- the largest collection of medical chicanery and mayhem ever assembled under one roof!"

The Quackatorium  "A Sometimes Penetrating Look at Antique Medical Quackery and Electrotherapy Devices...."

The American Center for Food Wine and the Arts

Louisiana Folk Art Museum

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum  ".... contains a buzzing, clattering or otherwise disturbing coin-operated device. Overhead dangle signs, animatronics dummies, dozens of airplane models gliding along a steel rail, and classic sideshow posters...."

The National Cryptologic Museum "....provides a "peek behind the curtain" at a once-secret world -- the exploitation of enemy cryptology and the protection of American communications. These complementary activities have been of critical importance in both peace and war since the foundation of our nation, but knowledge about them has in the past been limited to a privileged few...."

The Funomena Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange and it's official website HERE. "....Funomena (sounds like phenomena), is the world's smallest museum, yet it has the largest collection of the weird and strange. This unusual mobile museum is a traveling sideshow that includes 13 mind boggling exhibits...You have to see it to believe it!...."

The Mutter's Museum

" According to a Roadside America article, The Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia promises — and delivers — an afternoon of esoteric and incredible sights. The sophisticated, high-ceilinged gallery that houses this collection of medical monstrosities helps us rationalize our interest in it. Designed for perusal by present and future members of a dignified overpaid profession, the museum is two floors of dark wood-trimmed display cases and a library-like stateliness. Shouts of "Will ya look at this MONSTER BABY?" are entirely inappropriate."   Here are just a few highlights:

• Soap Woman: the body of a woman who died of Yellow Fever sometime in the 19th century and was buried in soil with certain chemical properties that turned her into soap!
• a plaster cast of Chang and Eng AND their actual attached livers
• Chevalier Jackson Collection of objects swallowed and removed
• Brains of murderers and epileptics
• The "Secret Tumor of Grover Cleveland
• The "Thorax of John Wilkes Booth
• A giant colon
• Large collection of baby deformities.
• Skeletons of a giant and a midget
• "Brain Of A Murderer" - John Wilson hanged in Norristown, PA
• Longitudinal slices of the head, showing brain, etc.
• Skull Collections, including the Muniz collection of trephinated (holes cut in them)"

Mütter Museum: Philadelphia College of Physicians, 19 South 22nd Street, between Chestnut and Market Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm. $8 regular, student discounted rates available)  The official Mutter Museum Site  See also How I spent my Christmas aka Look at the Giant Colon