Directory (Organisations: museums)

Africa

— National Museums of Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya) — Founded by the East African Natural History Society in 1910.

America (N)

— American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA) — One of the world’s preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.
— Anniston Museum of Natural History (Anniston, Alabama, USA) — 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.
— Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Arizona, USA) — The mission of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is to inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert.
— Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA) — Calendar of events, general information, research and collections, exhibits, programs, publications and resources, summer camps.
— Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) — Founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family. The Museum was established to house the extensive collection of Hawaiian artifacts and royal family heirlooms of the Princess, and has expanded to include millions of artifacts, documents and photographs about Hawai’i and other Pacific island cultures.
— Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (Seattle, Washington, USA) — Aims to serve the online needs of a wide range of audiences, from visitors new to the region and adults and families in the community, to school age children, college students, and scholars from around the globe.
— Cable Natural History Museum (Cable, Wisconsin, USA) — A regional resource dedicated to: promoting awareness and appreciation of nature; providing opportunities for natural history education and interpretation; and advocating stewardship, caretaking and concern for the environment.
— Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) — A natural history museum that creates and develops exhibitions for public viewing.
— California Academy of Sciences, Natural History Museum (San Francisco, California, USA) — Founded in 1853 as the first scientific institution in the western United States with a mission to explore, explain, and protect the natural world.
— Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) — Conducts scientific inquiry that creates knowledge and promotes stewardship of Earth and its life; builds strategic collections to preserve evidence of that knowledge; and engages the public in the excitement of scientific discovery about the evolutionary, environmental, and cultural processes that shape the diversity of our world and its inhabitants.
— Denver Museum of Nature and Science (Denver, Colorado, USA) — The Rocky Mountain region’s leading resource for informal science education. A variety of exhibitions, programs, and activities help Museum visitors experience the natural wonders of Colorado, Earth, and the universe.
— Essig Museum of Entomology (Berkeley, California, USA) — A species list of the museum holdings of Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera, and Trichoptera is available for querying.
— Frank H. McClung Museum (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) — A general museum with collections in anthropology, archaeology, decorative arts, local history, and natural history.
— Frost Entomological Museum (University Park, Pennsylvania, USA) — Houses the insect and related arthropod collections of the Pennsylvania State University. The Frost Museum is a vital university facility, as a biodiversity library, repository for research materials, and as a research center. In addition, the museum serves a valuable educational function by making insect biodiversity accessible to the general public through displays for the casual visitor, and formal educational visits for school groups and other interested organisations.
— Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge, MA, USA) — A public museum of three renowned institutions at Harvard University: the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum. The HMNH web site features information about programs and events, exhibitions, museum shop offerings, membership benefits, and international travel opportunities.
— McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity (Gainesville, Florida, USA) — The center includes the living Butterfly Rainforest and exhibit space that features information about Lepidoptera and rainforests worldwide, as well as 39,000 square feet of research laboratories and collection space.
— Museum of Nature and Science (Dallas, Texas, USA) — The only collections-based, research-driven public natural history museum in the region and is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution.
— Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) — Develops and maintains excellent zoological and botanical science collections explicitly for use in research and education benefiting science, society, and the university.
— Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Exposition Park, California, USA) — The mission of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is to inspire wonder, discovery and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. The Museum assembles, conserves, interprets, and holds in trust collections of irreplaceable objects from nature and human history. These collections reveal the history of the Earth and the evolution and diversity of life and culture. They sustain programs of research, exhibits, education, and publication.
— North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) — The largest natural history museum in the Southeastern United States.
— San Diego Natural History Museum (San Diego, California, USA) — The San Diego Natural History Museum continues to explore the biodiversity and evolutionary history of southern California and Baja California with research, education, exhibits and community involvement.
— The Field Museum (Chicago, IL, USA) — Calendar of events, exhibits, education, membership, research & collections, museum Information, museum store.
— The National Museum of Natural History — Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC, USA) — Dedicated to understanding the natural world and our place in it.
— Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) — The mission of the museum is to serve Yale University by advancing our understanding of earth’s history through geological, biological, and anthropological research, and by communicating the results of this research to the widest possible audience through publication, exhibition, and educational programs.

America (S & C)

— Butterfly Museum (La Ceiba, Honduras) — Incredible world of over 12,000 butterflies, moths and other insects from Honduras and around the world.
— Museo Mariposas del Mundo (Argentina) — An entomological museum that harbors important collections of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and diverse exotic arthropods of the whole world.

Asia & Australia

— State Museum for Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) — A gateway to the main activities, campuses, collections, research, education services, public programs and corporate information. Collections include natural sciences, indigenous cultures, Australian history and cultural heritage.

Europe

— Cyprus Museum of Natural History (Nicosia, Cyprus) — The majority of the collection is made of stuffed mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and insects as well as rocks, minerals, semiprecious stones, shells, fossils.
— Finnish Museum of Natural History (Helsinki, Finland) — An independent research institution functioning under the University of Helsinki. The collections, which include botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological specimens from all over the world, serve research in the fields of biology and geology as well as educational purposes.
— Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest, Hungary) — The largest natural history museum in Hungary. Exhibitions, collections, scientific research and other activities.
— Latvian Museum of Natural History (Riga, Latvia) — The oldest multidisciplinary museum of natural sciences in the Baltic.
— Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) — One of the most important natural history museums of the world, collections of more than 25 million objects.
— Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris (Paris, France) — Scientific collections, publications, research.
— National Museum of Natural History, Leiden (Leiden, The Netherlands) — Visitor information, exhibitions, research and collections, science.
— Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna, Austria) — Over 500 pictures of collections of the museum, a virtual tour of the halls, the current program as well as informormation about the museum and the scientific departments.
— Senckenberg Natural History Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) — The largest natural history museum in Germany and showing the today’s variety of the life (biodiversity) and the development of the organisms (evolution). New research results from all ranges of biology, paleontology and geology.
— Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stockholm, Sweden) — Promoting the interest for and knowledge and research about the make-up and development of the universe and the earth, the plant and animal life of the earth together with human biology and the natural environment.
— State Darwin Museum (Moscow, Russia) — Exposition, type-specimens of butterflies.
— The Museum of 10,000 Wonderful Things (London, England) — Interesting scenes from nature, curiosities of art.
— The Natural History Museum (London, England) — Promoting the discovery, understanding, enjoyment, and responsible use of the natural world. World-class collections, fantastic exhibitions and cutting-edge research online.