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John Faithfull, University of Glasgow: The Geological Curators´ Group (affiliated to the Geological Society of London).

Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS): Palaeontologists' and Geologists' News, and News for Botanists, Mycologists, Microbiologists, Protozoologists, and Curators' News. In German.

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Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft: Arbeitskreis Mineralogische Museen und Sammlungen, Museen, and Sonderausstellungen (in German).

Kosmos Magazin: Go to: Notieren. Temporary Natural Science Exhibitions in Germany. (In German). Outdated.

Offices du Tourisme et Syndicats d'Initiatives, Château du Lichtenberg: "Archives de Grès" (in French and German). Exhibition, Château du Lichtenberg, Alsace, France.

Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie (VFMG): Aktuelle Sonderausstellungen. Temporary exhibitions in Germany (in German).

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Arthur Anderson: The Lost Museum of Sciences. A comprehensive index of science museum links throughout the world. See also: http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/museum/88/index.html

Association of Systematics Collections (ASC). The mission of the ASC is to support and enhance natural history collections, their human resources, and the institutions that house them, for the benefit of science and society.

Belgische Vereniging voor Paleontologie: Link Page, Natural History Museums.

University of California in Berkeley: Natural History Museums. A comprehensive list.

Jonathan Bowen (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Reading), Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL), Archive Service: Museums. This page provides searching facilities for museums around the world. With search engine.

Japanese Museums

Jonathan Bowen, Internet Museum (part of the WWW Virtual Library museums pages): Museums in Japan.

Michael T. Garrison, Websurfer´s Biweekly Earth Sciences Review: Science Museums and Exhibits.

Heavy Metal Mining Company, Springfield, Missouri: The Gold Miner's Headquarters, Geology and Earth Science Museums.

Eduardo Jawerbaum, Buenos Aires: EDUARDO JAWERBAUM´S ARGENTINE MUSEUMS LIST

Glen J. Kuban, North Royalton, OH: Kuban´s Guide to Natural History Museums on the Web. This site features one of the largest directories of natural history museums on the World Wide Web. Included are any museums or exhibits that feature displays on fossils, paleontology, and related subjects.

N. MacLeod, PaleoNet: Places to go. Links to museums.

Gordon McKenna, Cambridge, mda and Virtual Library Museums: Museums around the UK on the Web.

Mark W. Maimone, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide. This page contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: Sciences de la Terre, Natural History Science Museums in France (in French). An index.

Nature Quest Publications Inc., Cambridge, MA: Natural History Museums and Research Centers.

Oxford University: Virtual Library museums pages: Index of museums around the world, categorized by country and type. Also available via Sweden, http://www.icom.org/vlmp/ or USA, Stanford University.

Kazuko Saruwatari, Université de Montreal: Earth Science Sites in Japan.

Adam L. Schiff, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle: NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS. Links to museums and collections worldwide.

Science Museum, Tokyo: Links to Japanese and World Museums.

Biological Research Collections in Germany, University of Ulm: Links to German Natural Science Museums.

Virtual Library: Museums Pages. A distributed directory of on-line museums.

web.de: Museen. (In German).

Adres Wydzialu, Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Poland: GEOLOGICAL AND RELATED MUSEUMS. Alphabetical by country and city.

YAHOO: Natural History Museums.

Home / Institutions & Organisations / Natural History Museums / Access to Natural History Museums and Collections

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Urweltmuseum Oberfranken, Bayreuth
The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley. Worth checking out: Beth Schachter, HMS Beagle, Windows into Paleontology. Annotated links about Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology, from Beagle Site Review, Issue 39.
Museum of Natural History, Mineralogy and Petrology, Bern.
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum
Goldfuß-Museum, Bonn
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Geología y Paleontología, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Also available mirrored via Europe.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile
Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Natural history museum, Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Florence.
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Naturhistorisches Museum Heilbronn, Germany
Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn, Ingelfingen, Germany
The Geological Museum, Geological Survey of Japan
Museo de La Plata, Argentina
Musée Cantonal de Géologie à Lausanne
Museum Naturalis, Leiden. National Museum of Natural History.
The Natural History Museum, London.
Redpath Museum, Faculty of Science of the McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Otmar Kleindienst, Private Triassic Museum, Ochsenfurt-Kleinochsenfurt (in German).
Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Pisa
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
National Museum Prague, Czech Republic. Palaeontological Collections, Hall 2 - Sternbergeum (Rhacopteris bipinnata), Life of the Upper Palaeozoic, i.e. the Carboniferous and Permian Periods of Bohemian Massif.
The Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
Museums of Natural History including Botany at Tøyen
Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut, Argentina
Virtual Museum of Archaeology, Palaeontology and Anthropology of the Ulyanovsk Povolzhiye
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Earth Sciences Museum, Waterloo, Ontario. Museum on the University of Waterloo.
Palaeontological Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland. See also here.