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Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, AL
Explore the wilds of Africa, the wonders of the North American wilderness, and the mysteries of 2,000 year old mummies in the seven fascinating exhibit halls of the Anniston Museum of Natural History. See one of the country's oldest exhibits of birds in their habitats, and explore the children's discovery room for hands-on experiences with Alabama's natural wonders. Visit the Changing Exhibit Gallery for a look at how artists interpret n [1524:-0.8-.05]-0
Academy of Natural Science, Philladelphia, PA [1376:-1.2-.06]-0
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL
A world class collection of early astrological technology. [905:-0.0-.00]-0
Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa, AL
Experience the natural diversity of Alabama through exhibits from the Age of Dinosaurs, the Coal Age, and the Ice Age. View extensive collections of geology, zoology, mineralogy, paleontology, ethnology, history, and photography. Explore the Alabama Museu [1530:-0.8-.05]-0
American International Rattlesnake Museum, Albuquerque, NM
The Rattlesnake Museum is an exciting and educational experience for the entire family. This animal conservation museum reveals the hundreds of ways that rattlesnakes and other "less desirable" animals have influenced our lives. Examples are giv In addition to the 'living exhibits', collections include medical materials, Native American art, fine art, textiles, toys, entertainment, food, the study of herpetology, sports, music, scouting & military, religion and American history. [1754:-0.1-.08]-0
American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN
Funded by the US Department of Energy, AMSE hosts energy related exhibits, demonstrations and events that relate to energy, science and the world around us. [447:-0.0-.00]-0
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum is home to more than 250 interactive science, math and technology exhibits. Visit the NEW Michigan Nature discovery room and the expanded preschool gallery Discover the scientist within you! Visit the Light and Optics Gallery, Waste to Watts explores renewable energy, discover the CTN television studio, the preschool gallery, Scienceworks, live shows and more! For more information visit www.aahom.org [1760:-0.2-.08]-0
Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ [12:-0.0-.00]-0
Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ [59:-0.0-.00]-0
Aurora Fossil Musuem, Aurora, NC
Large collection and exhibits of Marine Fossils, Free to public, area for visitors to dig their own fossils. [1143:-0.1-.04]-0
AZ Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place! In a nutshell The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place! Exhibits re-create the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region so realistically you find yourself eye-to-eye wit [1677:-0.1-.07]-0
Barrick Museum of Natural History, Las Vegas, NV [525:-0.0-.00]-0
Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, MN
In addition to the dioramas, a wide variety of changing exhibitions and beautiful wildlife art enrich our understanding of the natural world. Make tracks to the Touch & See Room...and bring your curiosity! Here you'll learn about nature by touching turtles, stroking snakes and animal skins, peeking inside skulls, and handling other wonderful objects from nature. [947:-0.0-.00]-0
Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM
The Bradbury Science Museum displays exhibits about the history of Los Alamos National Laboratory, focusing on its role in the Manhattan Project during World War II, and its current research. [718:-0.0-.00]-0
BYU Earth Science Museum, Provo, UT
Among other exhibits, this museum featuress mounted dinosaur skeletons, a fossil touch table, a mural of the Jurassic period, and a working paleontology lab. [601:-0.0-.00]-0
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
Home of the Steinhart Aquarium, the Morrison Planetarium and the Natural History Museum. Earth, Ocean and Space all in one place. [731:-0.0-.00]-0
California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA
The California Science Center and IMAX Theater is a destination for learners of all ages. Guests can discover the science in everyday life through more than 100 interactive exhibits, or the awe-inspiring IMAX films shown on a movie screen 7-stories high. Permanent exhibit galleries – World of Life, Creative World and Air and Space Gallery – explore life sciences, human innovation and powered flight. Call 323-SCIENCE or visit www.californiasciencecenter.org [1455:-0.6-.05]-0
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Through its explorations, collections, research, exhibitions, and educational programs, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History advances knowledge of the Earth, its life and cultures, and acts as a steward of our natural world. [385:-0.0-.00]-0
Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Hands-on exhibits, including a miniature railroad and village, Omnimax theater, interactive planetarium, World War II submarine. [22:-0.0-.00]-0
Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Hands-on exhibits, including a miniature railroad and village, Omnimax theater, interactive planetarium, World War II submarine. [69:-0.0-.00]-0
Charles Dickert Memorial Wildlife Museum, Saranac Lake, NY
This wildlife museum highlights the work of Charles Dickert, the master taxidermist who practiced his craft in Saranac Lake for many decades. The Museum, located in the Saranac Lake Free Library at 100 Main Street, is open weekdays from 10:00AM to 4:00PM. [1045:-0.0-.00]-0
Chicago Academy of Sciences Nature Museum, Chicago, IL [25:-0.0-.00]-0
Chicago Academy of Sciences Nature Museum, Chicago, IL [72:-0.0-.00]-0
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, Concord, NH
The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, soon to be the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, is New Hampshire's state-of-the-art museum and theater with interactive exhibits in astronomy, aviation and earth sciences. [1819:-1.0-.08]-0
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH [29:-0.0-.00]-0
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH [76:-0.0-.00]-0
Colorado University Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO
The CU Museum is located on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder. It contains excellent collections of material used in the studies of Geology, Anthropology, Paleontology in the region of the Rocky Mountain foothills. It is a free museum and open to the public. [555:-0.0-.00]-0
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, , CT [78:-0.0-.00]-0
Coyote Point Museum For Environmental Education, San Mateo, CA
Come see us! Get a close up look at what makes the Bay Area beautiful. Just minutes from SFO and overlooking the San Francisco airport, we have live animals, beautiful gardens and hands-on exhibits. [697:-0.0-.00]-0
Dallas Museum of Natural History, , TX [334:-0.0-.00]-0
Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO
One of the best natural history museums in the country. Visit Prehistoric Journey, an award-winning exhibit on the history of life on earth. [602:-0.0-.00]-0
Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
The Museum is a national resource for research and science education that specializes in collections, exhibitions, and learning programs in six core areas: geology, zoology, paleontology, anthropology, space sciences, and health sciences. [1545:-0.9-.05]-0
Detroit Science Center, Detroit, MI
The Detroit Science Center features Michigan's only IMAX Dome Theater, Cyberspace Safari, our 55 computer Internet Exhibit Lab, our Discovery Theater demo theater and educational laser shows in the exhibit lab. [478:-0.0-.00]-0
Dinosaur Depot Museum, Cañon City, CO
The Dinosaur Depot Museum is a GEM located in one of the best places in the world to see fossils and the rocks where they are found. Among our dinosaurs on display, is the world's most complete Stegosaurus! [1546:-0.9-.05]-0
Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
The Discovery Museum provides a see, touch, hear hands on experience in Bridgeport, Connecticut right off the Merritt Parkway. Hands on galleries, daily planetarium shows, Challenger Learning Center and other special events. [719:-0.0-.00]-0
DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER, Santa Ana, CA
Let your imagination turn, twist and fly through 120 hands-on exhibits for all ages. Located in the heart of Orange County just minutes from Disneyland, John Wayne Airport and the Anaheim Convention Center. Exit Interstate 5 at Main St. in Santa Ana. Lie on a Bed of Nails, play Virtual Volleyball, stand in a Wind Tunnel, play music with a Laser Beam Harp, dance on a Musical Floor and more! Special events include BubbleFest in April and Spooky Science in October. www.discoverycube.org 714-542-2823. Ope [1426:-1.0-.04]-0
Discovery Science Center, Fort Collins, CO
Discovery Science Center is Colorado's only hands-on science and technology center, loaded with 110 incredible interactive exhibits to ignite your curiosity and make learning fun for the entire family. [1548:-0.9-.05]-0
ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, 1 College Street, Burlington, VT
ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain is Vermont’s world-class Lake Aquarium and Science Center, on the beautiful Burlington Waterfront. ECHO features over 60 species of live fish, amphibians and reptiles, with more than 100 hands-on exhibits, and hosts traveling exhibits several times a year. The site also highlights the Lake Champlain Navy Memorial and heroic “Lone Sailor” statue. [1591:-0.1-.06]-0
Ecology Hall of Fame, Santa Cruz, CA
The Ecology Hall of Fame honors the heroes of the environmental movement. [381:-0.0-.00]-0
EcoTarium, Worcester, MA
The EcoTarium is a unique indoor-outdoor museum dedicated to the exploration of the natural world. [1182:-0.1-.04]-0
Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum, , ??
Includes fossil shark teeth, with photographs and descriptions, and further paleontology information and links. (Warning: no lifeguards. Surf at your own risk!). [87:-0.0-.00]-0
Eniac Virtual Museum, , ??
School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania. [41:-0.0-.00]-0
Eniac Virtual Museum, , ??
School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania. [88:-0.0-.00]-0
Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Sna Francisco's Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception. The Exploratorium has over 650 exhibits in its collection. It was founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer. Its website includes resources for teachers, on-line exhibits and much more. [760:-0.0-.00]-0
Falls of the Ohio State Park & Interpretive Center, , OH
Include site history, on-line fossil brochures, photo gallery, educator's material for the classroom, fossil links, and provide site interpretation for one of the first discovered fossil beds in North America - known since the early to mid 1700's - a Middle Devonian coral-sponge patch reef. [804:-0.0-.00]-0
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
Includes"Sue-cam"real time video of preparation of world's most complete T-rex skeleton. [977:-0.0-.00]-0
Flandrau Science Center, Tucson, AZ
Flandrau reopened on Oct. 5, 2006 with a selection of community favorites in the planetarium theater, new displays in the UA Mineral Museum and a slate of new, prototype exhibits called the Design Garage. At the Design Garage, visitors are invited to test Flandrau Science Center is extending its hours of operation due to greater than anticipated community response to its reopening this month. Flandrau is adding daytime hours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays, and adding evening hours from 6 to [1679:-0.1-.07]-0
Fleischmann Planetarium, Reno, NV [296:-0.0-.00]-0
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, ??
See on-line searchable collection databases. Be sure to check out the new virtual exhibit"Fossil Horses in Cyberspace", a new component of the museum website. [96:-0.0-.00]-0
Forney Transportation Museum, DENVER, CO [1299:-0.1-.04]-0
Franklin and Marshall College's North Museum, Lancaster, PA
The North Museum of Natural History and Science houses an impressive array of natural history and science collections as well as a state-of-the-art Planetarium (third largest in Pennsylvania) and several specialty areas that make learning fun for all ages!. [683:-0.0-.00]-0
Franklin institute, Philadelphia, PA
Ben Franklin [1424:-1.0-.04]-0
Franklin Institute Virtual Science Museum, Philadelphia, ??
Includes virtual exhibits. [97:-0.0-.00]-0
Frost Entomological Museum, State College, PA
Entomological museum with public display area and research collection (500,000 specimens) for eastern USA with additional overseas material. [729:-0.0-.00]-0
Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, GA
The world’s largest aquarium has become Atlanta’s newest attraction. Come visit the Georgia Aquarium where you can view unique marine life such as beluga whales and whale sharks. [1711:-0.6-.07]-0
Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens, GA
Designated the official State museum of natural history on March 1999, the Museum includes 12 collections: Archaeology, Arthropods, Botany, Geology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrates, Mammalogy, Mycology, Ornithology, Pollen and Plant Microspores, and Zooarchaeology. The Museums broad mission includes education, outreach, research and service. [946:-0.0-.00]-0
Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science, New Hyde Park, NY
A hands-on museum of games and puzzles that involve logic, spatial visualization and patterns. The museum tries to encourage interest in mathematics to its visitors regardless of mathematical background. [676:-0.0-.00]-0
Great Explorations, The Hands On Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Interactive museum offering hands on exhibits and family fun that teaches artistic and scientific concepts. Outreach programs and museum rentals available. Traveling exhibits available: Insect Zoo, Creatures of the Dark, Mirror Magic and Maze Mania. [1085:-0.0-.00]-0
Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, KS
The GPNC is a new nature education facility in northeast Wichita, Kansas, emphasizing the flora, fauna and habitats of the Great Plains. [798:-0.0-.00]-0
Great Valley Museum of Natural History, Modesto, CA
See, Touch, and Experience the past and present of the Great Valley region of California. [764:-0.0-.00]-0
Grout Museum District, Waterloo, IA [404:-0.0-.00]-0
Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Creeks, Oakland, CA
In the old days, every neighborhood had a creek; the secret is they still do....
Virtual guide to the local creeks and watersheds with extensive maps [1353:-0.1-.04]-0
Hall of Health, Berkeley, ??
Community health-education museum and science center, especially for children and families. [102:-0.0-.00]-0
Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney, TX
Includes a 25,000 sq. ft. science museum, a 274 acre wildlife sanctuary, an 1,800 sq. ft. Raptor Rehabilitation Center and a 3750 sq. ft. environmental center and outdoor aquatic laboratory. [343:-0.0-.00]-0
Honolulu Community College, , HI
Dinosaur exhibit. [114:-0.0-.00]-0
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX [651:-0.0-.00]-0
ICR Museum of Creation & Earth History, Santee, CA
Museum covering Science and Earth History from a Creation Science perspective. [1212:-0.1-.04]-0
Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, ID
Natural history museum covering the geology, Native Americans, wildlife, nature of Idaho. Sponsors and displays traveling exhibits from around the world. [1006:-0.0-.00]-0
Imagination Station Science Museum, Wilson, NC
Imagination Station (Science Museums of Wilson, NC)- hands on science exhibits for the family; a place where science learning is fun!. [880:-0.0-.00]-0
Impress 5 Science Center, Lansing, MI
Hands-on science and technology center. [119:-0.0-.00]-0
Insights EL Paso science museum, El Paso, TX
Insights El Paso science museum has over 75 hands on exhibits used to promote curiosity and stimulate intrest by exploratory, entertaining, exciting and participatory learning. [1215:-0.1-.04]-0
International Wildlife Museum, Tucson, AZ
Mammals, birds, insects, from around the world. Hands-on exhibits, interactive computers, pre-historic mammals. Tucson's Interactive Natural History Museum. [387:-0.0-.00]-0
International Women's Air & Space Museum, , ?? [249:-0.0-.00]-0
Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama, McCalla, AL
Official repository for artifacts from the Alabama iron and steel industry dating from 1815 including steam engines. Interpretive center includes ironmaking since the Civil War. [1219:-0.1-.04]-0
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, MI [128:-0.0-.00]-0
Kennedy Space Center, , ??
NASA. [129:-0.0-.00]-0
Kingman Museum, Battle Creek, MI
Natural history museum featuring dinosaurs, real human embryos and a real human heart. Programs, tours, suitable for all ages, free parking, handicap accessible, gift shop, planetarium. [1228:-0.1-.04]-0
La Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas, NV [523:-0.0-.00]-0
Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium, Lafayette, LA
The Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium exists to encourage the discovery and understanding of the natural world, the universe, and the role of humans within them. Exhibits and planetarium programs change regularly. Collections include cultural artifacts of South Louisiana, Louisiana landscape paintings, osteological materials, and meteorites and tektites. [599:-0.0-.00]-0
Las Cruces Museum of Natural History, Las Cruces, NM
Environmentally oriented science museum. Area of study focuses on Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem. Changing exhibits and over 50 living specimens found in the region. Prehistoric fossils - Living collections - Programs and classes - Nature Camps - Nationally traveling exhibitions change 3 times annually. [1607:-0.3-.06]-0
Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) is the public science museum and research center for K-12 education at the University of California, Berkeley. LHS offers hands-on science exhibits, discovery laboratories, computer labs, planetarium shows, after-school classes and summer camps, family workshops, special events, school programs and teacher education. Science and mathematics teaching materials and curricula developed at LHS are used in schools across the U.S. and worldwide. [515:-0.1-.04]-0
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ
Liberty Science is a hands on learning center. We have the largest Imax dome Theater in the nation. [1233:-0.1-.04]-0
Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA
Lindsay Wildlife Museum houses one of the nation's oldest and largest wildlife rehabilitation hospitals, and exhibits over 100 non-releasable live native animals. [1089:-0.0-.00]-0
Louisville Science Center, Louisville, KY
A hands-on science center with interactive exhibitions, an IMAX theater and educational programs both on-site and through distance-learning facilities. Our goal is to make learning about science, math and technology exciting for people of all ages, interests and abilities. [577:-0.0-.00]-0
Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology, Wichita, KS
The Holmes museum is associated with the Department of Anthropology at Wichita State University. The museum is dedicated to promoting the understanding of world cultures, North American archaeology and human origins and diversity. The museum offers a wide range of anthropological exhibitions. It houses one of the largest collections of Asmat art in the USA and important collections of art from the American Southwest, and Chinese nationality clothing. [1758:-0.2-.08]-0
LSU Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
LSU's Museum of Natural Science is both a research collection and an educational museum. Take a tour of our puclic exhibits and see what research goes on behind the scences. [430:-0.0-.00]-0
Maine Aquarium, , ME [389:-0.0-.00]-0
Mann Museum and Outdoors, Opelika, AL
Over 250 (and growing!) exhibits of North American large animals including bear, deer, caribou, moose, Alaskan gamefish, fossils, and artifacts. 3-sided viewing and hands-on displays. Nature trail. [1067:-0.0-.00]-0
Mann Wildlife, Montgomery, AL
The Mann Wildlife Learning Museum at the Montgomery Zoo lets you get closer to wildlife than you ever thought possible. Our museum includes one of the nation's finest collections of professionally presented North American wildlife. Bear, wolf, moose [1528:-0.8-.05]-0
Marion Natural History Museum, Marion, MA
The Marion Natural History Society defines Natural History in its broadest meaning, so that it includes zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and all other issues which pertain to these subjects, including the past and present lifestyles of man and his tre [1659:-1.0-.06]-0
Miami Museum of Science, Florida, FL [140:-0.0-.00]-0
Mindport Exhibits, Bellingham, WA
A hands-on discovery museum appropriate for all ages. [968:-0.0-.00]-0
Mineral & Lapidary Museum of Henderson County, Hendersonville, NC
A small museum that is very popular with tourist and children. M/F-1-5, Sat 10-5 Free North Carolina minerals, calcite, black minerals, many fossils, dinosaur egg nest, great gift shop [1625:-0.5-.06]-0
MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA [144:-0.0-.00]-0
Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT
Hands-on museum on natural and physical sciences, ecology, and technology. [145:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Biological Diversity, College of Biological Sciences, OH
Insect collection. [148:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Health and Medical Science, Houston, TX [155:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, Stony Brook, NY
The Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences promotes education, research, and service in the natural sciences. It provides education programs to the community and schools through lectures, exhibits, films, publications, and projects. [558:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, OR
Includes the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. [158:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Natural History & Cormack Planetarium, Providence, RI [159:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Natural History & Cormack Planetarium, Providence, RI [401:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA [813:-0.1-.04]-0
Museum of Science, Boston, MA [164:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
This is the largest science museum in the western hemisphere. Online museum exhibits feature informative depth and utilizes multimedia to enhance the visitors experience. Some examples are," All Aboard the Silver Streak"&"U-505 WWII Submarine". [689:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of Scientific Discovery, Harrisburg, PA
A participatory science center with over 100 exhibits and daily public programs. On our web page, you can get a sneak-peek of our museum and find out when special events are happening. [713:-0.0-.00]-0
Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY
Experience what life was like beneath an ancient sea, track a herd of dinosaurs dashing across NYS, or touch relics of a world carved by ice. Concentrates on the geology & paleontology of the Northeastern U.S. The Museum exhibits over 650 specimens fr [1582:-1.1-.05]-0
Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
This is a pickled medical specimen museum with medical oddities, medical instruments, and other really weird and disgusting exhibits such as a lady that turned to soap. [458:-1.1-.04]-0
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
Includes exhibition galleries. See also the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies. [171:-0.0-.00]-0
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC
Medical museum; pathological collections include Civil War bone, medical examiner's collection, and miscellaneous wet and dry tissue. Extensive microscope collection and historical objects. [594:-0.0-.00]-0
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC
Pathological collections include Civil War bone, medical examiner's collection, and miscellaneous wet and dry tissue. Extensive microscope collection and historical objects. [1068:-0.0-.00]-0
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC [1764:-0.3-.08]-0
National Zoological Park, , ?? [263:-0.0-.00]-0
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, CA [175:-1.1-.04]-0
New England Science Center, Massachusetts, ??
Museum and wildlife center. [176:-0.0-.00]-0
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, NM
Natural History and Science with an emphasis on New Mexico paleontology. [434:-0.0-.00]-0
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Featuring Natural History Exhibits on permanant exhibit, and temporary exhibits in the arts, interactive exhibits, and more. [624:-0.0-.00]-0
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC
The museum has science and ecological exhibits. It is for all ages, but it has many fun activities for children to learn and participate in. [596:-0.0-.00]-0
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
Founded in 1879, the Museun of Natural Sciences documents and interprets North Carolina's natural history through exhibits, educational programming and scientific research. The museum will move to a new building in the fall of 1999, filled with all-new, hands on exhibits. [716:-0.0-.00]-0
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
The Museum collects, studies and preserves the state's bilogical diversity, promotes environmental awareness, and strives to relate natural sciences to everyday life. [736:-0.0-.00]-0
North Museum of Natural History and Science, Lancaster, PA
Natural history collections, exhibits, special events, lecture programs, live animals, and planetarium. [1267:-0.1-.04]-0
Northeast Louisiana University Museum of Zoology, Monroe, LA
Large research collection of freshwater fishes, reptiles and amphibians. Primarily North American in scope, some Neotropical and Asian specimens. Tours by appointment. [833:-0.0-.00]-0
Northen Maine Museum of Science, Presque Isle, ME
The exhibits in The Northern Maine Museum of Science deal with biology, evolution, astronomy, mathematics, and geology. An animated Pterosaur may be viewed. [780:-0.0-.00]-0
Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, ?? [181:-0.0-.00]-0
Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland, ?? [182:-0.0-.00]-0
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR
OMSI is the largest Science Museum of the Pacific Northwest and develops a large number of traveling exhibits. [572:-0.0-.00]-0
Pacific Science Center, Seattle, ?? [185:-0.0-.00]-0
Pacific Tsunami Museum, Hilo, HI [1437:-0.1-.05]-0
Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, Missoula, MT
The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum contains over 24,000 specimens of vertebrates, primarily mammals, birds, and fish. It is the largest zoological collection in Montana and one of the major zoological collections in the Northern Rocky Mountains. [1467:-0.7-.05]-0
Pratt Museum's Wild-Eyed Alaska, Homer, AK
Meet puffins, gulls and other residents of Alaska's Gull Island through video footage and additional facts about this summer seabird colony. From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Pratt Museum. This is a VIRTUAL museum. [156:-0.0-.00]-0
Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, Punxsutawney, PA
The Weather Discovery Center is located in Punxsutawney, PA, Weather Capital of the World and home of Phil's Groundhog Day, in a restored 1914 Federal Building & Post Office. Our mission is to present the science and technology of weather prediction in an The exhibits at the Weather Center include a hot air balloon, Van de Graf generator, Water Cycle exhibit, tornado, Weather Vision Studio, Winds Exhibit and the Allstate Catastrophic Weather Theater. We are still growing and adding new exhibits. [1398:-0.5-.04]-0
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center, San Diego, CA [201:-0.0-.00]-0
Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY
Mid-size Museum. Indian History in upstate NY. Science and Technology related exhibits. Planetarium showing star shows and cine magic large format films. [830:-0.0-.00]-0
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA
The San Diego Natural History Museum explores the biodiversity and evolutionary history of southern California and Baja California with research, education, exhibits, and community involvement. [388:-0.0-.00]-0
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum preserves and presents to the public the maritime heritage of California's Central Coast while providing an ongoing educational platform to study and record human interaction with the marine environment. [492:-0.0-.00]-0
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, California, ?? [210:-0.0-.00]-0
Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia, NC
The museum includes a wide variety of collections and exhibits as well as a planetarium and beautiful Nature Trail. Learn about the areas history, both natural and historical. [806:-0.0-.00]-0
SCI PORT DISCOVERY CENTER, Shreveport, AL
Sci-Port Discovery Center provides an educational and entertaining environment for people of all ages to explore and actively participate in the world of science and technology. The Center develops a comprehensive view of the world through the interactio The new 67,000 square-foot Sci-Port Discovery Center combines fundamental science education with hands-on entertainment for people of all ages. [1514:-0.9-.05]-0
Science Discovery Center of Oneonta, State University College, ??
State University College, Oneonta, New York. A hands-on science museum for all ages. [211:-0.0-.00]-0
Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, ?? [213:-0.0-.00]-0
Sciencenter, Ithaca, ?? [214:-0.0-.00]-0
SciTech, the Science and Technology Interactive Center, Aurora, IL
educational tools on particle physics. [353:-0.0-.00]-0
Somers Mountain Museum of Natural History and Primitive Technology, Somers, CT
An exploration of ancestral culture and technology worldwide. Exhibits especially of Native American history show an alternative lifeway all our ancestors once followed. [801:-0.0-.00]-0
Southwest Museum of Science and Technology., Dallas, TX
The Science PlaceA place to understand science and technology constructively with methods that combine education with fun to excite and facinate people, creating a strong desire to know and understand. [1026:-0.0-.00]-0
Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, MA
Live-animal Monsanto Eco-Center, R.E. Phelon African Hall, Dinosaur Hall, Mineral Hall, hands-on Exploration Center, and planetarium; museum shop. [786:-0.0-.00]-0
St. Louis Science Center, Missouri, ?? [221:-0.1-.04]-0
Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, San Diego, ?? [222:-0.0-.00]-0
Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS
The Sternberg Musuem, soon to open in its new home, houses some of the best Cretaceous fossils, and the largest paleoseed collection known. The new site of the museum will offer walk through dioramas, and a large discovery area. [717:-0.0-.00]-0
Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS
The Sternberg Museum is open in a spectacular new building on I-70. The museum houses some of the best Cretaceous fossils plus walkthrough dioramas and a large discovery room. Additionally, it has an outstanding changing exhibits program. [1051:-0.0-.00]-0
Tate Geological Museum, Casper, WY
The Tate Geological Museum is situated on Casper College campus. Exhibits include dinosaurs, mammals, marine reptiles and other fossils; a unique display of Wyoming jade and an extensive mineral collection. On site fossil preparation is visible to visitors through windows in the lab. [829:-0.0-.00]-0
The National Maritime Center, Norfolk, VA
Nauticus, The National Maritime Center is a science and technology center that explores the naval, economic, and natural power of the sea. The National Maritime Center features hands-on exhibits, NOAA's Science on a Sphere, an imaginative and dynamic 6-foot globe that displays plate tectonics and animated real-time weather data, interactive theaters, large format movies, shark touch, na [1555:-0.9-.05]-0
The Virtual Fossil Museum, Little Rock, AR
The Virtual Fossil Museum is an educational resource dedicated to fossils. High-quality pictures of fossils are presented that are organized by fossil sites and systematics. Contributions by educators, scientists and enthusiasts are invited. Many exhibits are presented for different taxa and fossil localities. Geological history, paleobiology, phylogenetics and evolutionary biology are among the supportive contextual information provided. [1471:-0.8-.05]-0
U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL
The Center houses the largest collection of missiles & rockets in the world. Includes Saturn V, full Shuttle stack, Apollo 16 capsule, Sky Lab trainer. Also home of Space Shot, a 4-G simulator. [595:-0.0-.00]-0
University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
The Anthropology Hall examines how CU researchers work to understand the lives and traditions of Ancient Puebloan, Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi peoples in the American Southwest. An abundance of sandals, pottery, and tools are on display from archaeological sites, including Olsen-Chubbick, Yellowjacket, and Canyon de Chelley. [1560:-0.9-.05]-0
University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, KS
The museum discovers, documents, and disseminates knowledge about the earth's biological diversity, past and present, through exhibits, graduate and undergraduate education, research, and public service programs. [799:-0.0-.00]-0
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE
Natural history museum with collections & exhibits worldwide in scope but emphasizing the natural history of the state of Nebraska & the Great Plains. Research dvisions include anthropology, botany, entomology, parasitology, vertebrate paleontology and zoology. [497:-0.0-.00]-0
University of Washington Fish Collection, Seattle, WA
Includes a search gateway to the collection database (30,000 records). [237:-0.0-.00]-0
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Museum of Natural History, Stevens Point, WI
Exhibits feature rocks and minerals, wildlife of North America and Africa, a fully articulated Allosaurus, and large bird egg collection. Two new African savanna dioramas include lion, cape buffalo, crocodile, hyena,and several antelope. Admission is free. [1064:-0.0-.00]-0
Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT
Includes the natural history of genes. [238:-0.0-.00]-0
Views Of The Solar System, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ?? [240:-0.0-.00]-0
Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA
Virginia Museum of Natural History is the state museum offering exhibits, programs for adults and children, publications, special events. Seven research scientists on staff. [910:-0.0-.00]-0
Virtual Science Museum of Ciba Physics Services, , ??
Page in German. [279:-0.0-.00]-0
Wilderness Wildlife Museum, Rector, PA
Museum holds a large collection of wild game specimens. Visitors can experience a variety of animals, and records of their habits. The museum library contains a variety of books, articles, photographs and video. Many North American game animals various species of: fish, birds, deer, bear, fox, wolves, coyotes, moose, caribou, cats & sheep. All Adventures cataloged. Research big game trophies w/Boone And Crocket volumes. [1780:-0.4-.08]-0
Wildlife World, Gering, NE
Featuring animals found in the North Platte Valley along the Oregon Trail in the 1850's and over 300 fasinating exotic animals from other parts of the world, past and present. The Baluchithere, a prehistoric rhinoceros, who roamed the Earth 25 million years ago is on exhibit along with other prehistoric animals and fossils. [432:-0.0-.00]-0
WyoBraska Natural History Museum, GERING, NE
The museum has over 250 species of mounted wildlife, most of which are full mounts, displayed in their natural habitat. A replica of the Baluchithere, the largest mammal ever to walk the earth, shown actural size 19ft.high and 30ft long. [483:-0.0-.00]-0
Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis, WY
Fossil life & exhibits, full size dinosaur skeletons; preparation laboratory (visitors may watch); active dig sites, dig site tours, dig-for-a-day programs, kids' programs, educational activities. [368:-0.0-.00]-0
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, CT
Over 11 million specimens/objects from the curatorial disciplines of Anthropology, Botany, Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Paleobotany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Mineralogy, Historical Scientific Instruments, Meteorites. [351:-0.1-.04]-0

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