Science Museums and Exhibits

This site allows visitors to explore fossils in three-dimensions online. Find images of sharks, duck-billed platypus, trilobites, dinosaurs, and more. The 3D Museum Website is maintained by the Vertebrate Paleobiology Lab of the University of California, Davis.

Exhibits and other online resources for history of physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and related fields. Exhibits include: Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity; Albert Einstein; History of the Transistor; Ernest Lawrence and the Cyclotron; Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle; Papers of Great American Physicists; Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons & Human Rights; The Discovery of the Electron; The Discovery of Global Warming; Physics Discoveries.

The American Museum of Natural History, established in 1869, is located at Central Park West and 79th Street in New York City. The act to incorporate the American Museum of Natural History, which passed the New York State Congress on April 6, 1869, states: The American Museum of Natural History, to be located in the City of New York for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural History; of encouraging and developing the study of Natural Science; of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction. The 1996 strategic plan, adopted by the Board of Trustees on December 10, includes the following statement of mission: To discover, interpret, and disseminate -- through scientific research and education -- knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe.

The museum opened in 1949 in an old wartime cafeteria. It was originally named the American Museum of Atomic Energy. Its guided tours took visitors through the peaceful uses of atomic energy. The present facility, opened in 1975, continues to provide the general public with energy information. The name of the museum was changed to the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) in 1978.

Egyptian life, geography, gods and goddesses, mummification, pharaohs, pyramids, temples, time, trades, and writing.

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. ADW is a large searchable encyclopedia of the natural history of animals. Every day, thousands of classroom students and informal visitors use it to answer animal questions. Other sites specialize in local, endangered, or particular kinds of animals. We aim to be as comprehensive as possible. ADW provides a way to make the contents of research museums available globally for teaching and research. So far, our efforts have been directed mainly at mammals. Photographs of scientific specimens are available for representative species from most mammal families. We've also included several hundred Quick Time Virtual Reality Movies of skulls. These allow the user to "rotate" the specimen, providing an excellent impression of its 3-dimensional structure. We've written in depth about and illustrated many of the characteristics of interest to students of mammals. An important goal for the future is to expand to cover other groups of animals and include other media such as animal behavior video.

The mission of the Arizona Science Center is to inspire, educate, and entertain people about science. Located in downtown Phoenix, the Arizona Science Center features more than 300 hands-on exhibits, a state-of-the-art planetarium, a five-story giant-screen theater, live demonstrations, traveling exhibitions, and exciting science programs for people of all ages. The website contains online features that accompany in-house exhibitions.

The Bradbury Science Museum is located at 15th and Central in downtown Los Alamos, the home of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Museum serves as a bridge between the Laboratory and the community, helping to improve science education and science literacy. The Museum also serves as a window to the Laboratory, interpreting the Laboratory's history and current research.

Explore the natural world within the halls of the California Academy of Sciences, now located at 875 Howard Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, in San Francisco. Watch a daily penguin feeding show, study microscopic life, or meet interesting creatures at the Discovery Tide Pool.

Chabot Space & Science Center (CSSC) is an innovative teaching and learning center focusing on astronomy and the space sciences and the interrelationships of all sciences. Its observatory, planetarium, exhibits, and natural park setting are a place where a diverse population of students, teachers, and the public can imagine, understand, and learn to shape their future through science.

The Museum of Science and Industry, one of the most beloved and visited museums in the world, has origins that are tied to two great World's Fairs and to civic spirit and imagination of Chicago businessman Julius Rosenwald. Rosenwald, then Chairman of Sears Roebuck & Company, was inspired by a 1911 visit with his son to the Deutches Museum in Munich. He returned to Chicago determined to create America's first center for "industrial enlightenment," a vehicle for public science education. With the help of other Midwest business leaders, Rosenwald restored and converted the Palace of Fine Arts, the last remaining major structure from the 1893 World's Fair, into a new type of American museum - where visitors could interact with the exhibits, not just view displays and artifacts. In 1933, the Museum of Science and Industry opened to the public, at the same time as the Century of Progress Exposition.

The Current Science & Technology Center is a place where you can find out more about science and technology in the news... and catch up on the leading edge in research and exploration. Located in the Blue Wing of the Museum of Science, Boston, the Center offers exhibits, live events, video, animation, digital updates and live links to researchers in the field.

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany's government led by Adolf Hitler promoted a nationalism that combined territorial expansion with claims of biological superiorityan "Aryan master race"and virulent antisemitism. Driven by a racist ideology legitimized by German scientists, the Nazis attempted to eliminate all of Europe's Jews, ultimately killing six million in the Holocaust. Many others also became victims of persecution and murder in the Nazis' campaign to cleanse German society of individuals viewed as threats to the "health" of the nation.

A collection of more than 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials, the Emilio Segre Visual Archives focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. The collection is named in honor of Emilio Segre best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work in nuclear and high-energy physics, but also an avid photographer and author of books on the history of modern physics. The Visual Archives is part of the Niels Bohr Library of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.

This American Institute of Physics web exhibit covers the life and career of Ernest O. Lawrence, particle physicist and inventor of the cyclotron particle accelerator, which won him the Nobel Prize in 1939. Lawrence and his machines were part of the Manhattan Project for an atomic bomb during World War II.