Museums and Exhibits

Museums

Stanford Campus

• Cantor Center for Visual Arts
  • Rodin Sculpture Garden (See also: Musee Rodin, Paris)
• The New Guinea Sculpture Garden
• Department of Art & Art History Galleries & Spaces

Museum Directories

• Science (U.S.)
• Technology (U.S.)
• San Francisco Bay Area
  • Yahoo Directory
  • Belvedere-Tiburon Library
  • SanFrancisco.com
  • Bay Area Travel Guide
• California
• MuseumStuff.com
• Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide

Sci-Tech Museums in Northern CA

• California Academy of Sciences
• Chabot Space & Science Center
• Computer History Museum
• Essig Museum of Entomology
• The Exploratorium
• The Intel Museum
• Lawrence Hall of Science
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Museum of Paleontology
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
• Oakland Museum of California
• Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
• The Tech Museum of Innovation

Sci-Tech Museums in the World

• American Museum of Natural History
• Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life
• Biosphere 2 Center (Univ. Arizona)
• Bletchley Park Museum [of British Cryptanalysis in WWII]
• BYU Earth Science Museum
• Canada Science and Technology Museum
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Compuseum-American Computer Museum
• Computer Museum of America
• Corning Museum of Glass
• Deutsches Museum
• Discovery World Museum of Science, Econ & Tech (Wi)
• Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago)
• Florida Museum of Natural History
• Franklin Institute
• Harvard Museum of Natural History
• Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Italy)
• Israel National Museum of Science
• Kennedy Space Center
• MIT Museum
• Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris; in French)
• Museum of HP Calculators
• Museum of Flight (Seattle)
• Museum of Natural History (Univ. Colorado)
• Museum of Paleontology
• Museum of Science (Boston)
• Museum of Science & Industry (Chicago)
• Museum of the History of Science (Oxford)
• National Institute of Standards & Tech (NIST) Virtual Museum
• National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
• National Museum of Science & Industry (U.K.)
• National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
• The Natural History Museum (London)
• New York Hall of Science
• Oakland Museum of California
• Obsolete Computer Museum
• Oregon Museum of Science & Industry
• Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
• Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta)
• Royal Ontario Museum (Canada)
• Science Museum (London)
• Science Museum of Minnesota
• The Smithsonian
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
• Yokohama Science Center (Japan)

Exhibits

• The Abacus
• Advanced National Seismic System Composite Earthquake Catalog
• Albert Einstein Online
• Alchemical symbolism, imagery and music
• American Environmental Photographs (1891–1936)
• American Institute of Physics. Center for the History of Physics.
  • Emilio Segrè VisualArchives (25,000 Historical Images)
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
• American Museum of Natural History
• Ames Imaging Library Server
• Animated Tour of the Monterey Bay
• The Antarctic Meteorology Research Center (AMRC) Photo Gallery
• Bookplates at the Stanford University Libraries: A Virtual Exhibit
• Cameras: The Technology of Photographic Imaging (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
• A Century of Physics Timeline (APS)
• Chemical Achievers: The Human Face of the Chemical Sciences (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• The Computer Museum History Center
• David Rumsey Collection of Online Images of 18th and 19th Century American Maps
• Developmental Biology Cinema (Society for Developmental Biology)
• Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures
• Digital Atlas of California
• Digital Atlas of the United States
• Discovery of the Electron (AIP History Center Exhibit)
• Einstein-Image and Impact (AIP History Center Exhibit)
• The Electronic Volcano
• Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution (Stanford Univ.)
• ENIAC 50th Anniversary Celebration (Univ. Pennsylvania)
• Environmental Events: Operational Significant Event Imagery (NOAA)
• Donald Ryder Dickey Photographic Collection (California birds and mammals)
• Essig Museum of Entomology
• The Franklin Institute Online: Online Exhibits Hotlist
• Galileo’s Compass
• The Galileo Project (Rice Univ.)
• Galleries at the Natural History Museum (London)
• The Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
• Heisenberg/Uncertainty Principle (AIP History Center Exhibit)
• History of Chemical Information (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• Hubble Space Telescope Gallery
• The Infinite Fractal Loop
• Lunar Prospector Homepage (NASA/Ames)
• Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity (AIP History Center Exhibit)
• Marine Geology & Geophysics Images
• Mathematical Museum and Exhibitions
• The Measurers: A Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
• The Mind of Leonardo (Inst. Mus. Hist. Sci., Florence IT)
• MIT Museum Exhibitions
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago — Exhibits
• Nanomedicine Art Gallery
• NASA Multimedia
• National Museum of American History's Electricity Collection Images (Smithsonian Institution)
• NOAA Home Page
  • NOAA Environmental Visualization Program
• NOVA Online
• Out of this World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas (Exhibition of Rare Books from the Linda Hall Library)
• Palo Alto Quadrangle-Digital Imagery
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Polymers and People: An Informal History (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• The Revolutionaries on Turning Inspiration into Innovation in Silicon Valley (The Tech Museum, San Jose)
• San Francisco Bay — Environmental Research (USGS)
• Science for the Millenium (Univ. Illinois)
• Science, The Occult, and Religion (Univ. Pennsylvania)
• Silicon Genesis: Oral History Interviews with Semiconductor Industry Pioneers (Stanford Univ.)
• SLAC Virtual Visitor Center
• Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
• Stanford Art & Art History Department Online Galleries
• Stanford and the Silicon Valley: Oral History Interviews (Stanford Univ.)
• This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Tectonics (USGS)
• Transistorized! The History of the Invention of the Transistor (AIP History Center Exhibit)
• Treasures of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia)
• The Tree of Life (Univ. Arizona)
• UC-Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Online Exhibits
• Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (Scripps Inst. Ocean.)
• U.S. DOE Genome Project GMIS Image Gallery
• Virtual Leonardo (Milan Museum of Science and Technology & Milan Polytechnic)
• The Virtual Smithsonian
• A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• Volcanoes of the World (USGS)
• Web Exhibits Catalogue (Sponsored by Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement)
• The Why Files: Science Behind the News (NSF)
• World of M.C. Escher — Art Gallery