Museums & Science Centers

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History is a museum of natural history located near the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Pacific Grove, California. The museum is a living field guide of the California Central Coast showcasing local native plan... Read more >

The Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska. The museum's mission is to preserve "the stories of the Kachemak Bay region", through... Read more >

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The museum contains approximately "7 million objects and specimens in 12 collections." It has almost 50,000 s... Read more >

The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi an... Read more >

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center is a museum owned and operated by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and is located on Santa Barbara's Stearns Wharf. The Sea Center focuses on the marine life and the related... Read more >

The Schiele Museum of Natural History features a number of permanent exhibits, including the Hall of North Carolina Natural History and the Henry Hall of the American Indian. The museum is also home to the James H. Lynn Planetarium, the on... Read more >

The Trailside Museum of Natural History is located in the historic Army Theatre at Fort Robinson State Park, three miles west of Crawford, Nebraska on U.S. Route 20. The museum exhibits the fossils of two mammoths which killed each other w... Read more >

The Virginia Museum of Natural History is the state's natural history museum located in Martinsville, Virginia. The museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, and has more than 22 million items. Read more >