Museums & Science Centers

The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural-history museum. Its main facilities are located on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville. Permanent public exhibits ... Read more >

The Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History is a 45-acre zoo and museum located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Delbridge Museum of Natural History displays 150 mounted animals, including 38 "vanishing species". The Grea... Read more >

The Greensboro Science Center (formerly known as the Natural Science Center of Greensboro, originally the Greensboro Junior Museum) is a science museum and zoological park established in 1957 and located in Greensboro, North Carolina. The ... Read more >

The Houston Museum of Natural Science in Houston, Texas hosts an array of permanent exhibits, including a planetarium, butterfly center, and extensive collections on paleontology, gems and minerals, chemistry, and more.... Read more >

The Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) is the official state natural history museum of Idaho, located on the campus of Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello. Founded in 1934, it has collections in anthropology, vertebrate paleontol... Read more >

The Las Vegas Natural History Museum is a private, nonprofit natural history museum that is located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The exhibits include dinosaurs, marine life, and mammals both exotic and native. Read more >

The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture is a museum located on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Exhibits focus on natural history, archaeology, anthropology, decorative arts, and local history. Read more >

The Museum of Life and Science, previously known as the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science and the NC Children's Museum, is an 84-acre science museum located in Durham, North Carolina. The museum features both indoor and outdoor lea... Read more >

The Cincinnati Museum Center is a museum complex in Cincinnati, Ohio. The museum provides a home to five organizations: Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater, Cincinnati Hi... Read more >

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History in Boulder, Colorad features more than four million artifacts and specimens in the areas of anthropology, botany, entomology, paleontology and zoology. The museum houses one of the most ... Read more >

The Museum of Science (MoS) is a science museum and indoor zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with over 700 interactive exhibits, the museum features a number of live presentations throughout the building every day, along with shows at th... Read more >

The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is a museum located in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. The museum has two buildings on its riverfront campus: the Mississippi River Center and the National River Center. Read more >

The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2022, with 3.9 million ... Read more >

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history. This larg... Read more >

The Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU) in Salt Lake City, Utah shows exhibits of natural history subjects, with an emphasis on Utah and the Intermountain West. The mission of the museum is to illuminate the natural world and the place o... Read more >

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico operates as a public revenue facility of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. The Museum's permanent exhibit halls illustrate a journey through time,... Read more >