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The Academy of Natural Sciences- http://www.acnatsci.org/ The Academy of Natural Sciences, an international museum of natural history operating since 1812, undertakes research and public education that focus on the environment and its diverse species. Our mission is to expand knowledge of nature through discovery and to inspire stewardship of the environment. American Museum of Natural History- http://www.amnh.org/ Home to many of the nation\'s leading scientists, the American Museum of Natural History continues to build on a distinguished tradition of advanced research, seeking to identify and describe the earth and its myriad life forms, and to share the results of this work with a broad public. View their online exhibits. Canadian Museum of Nature- http://www.nature.ca/nature_e.cfm The Canadian Museum of Nature is more than a natural history museum that creates and develops exhibitions for public viewing. Behind our public face is a vibrant, multi-layered, multi-faceted organization composed of research scientists, collection specialists, education and multimedia specialists, and innovators. Carnegie Museum of Natural History- http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/ Welcome to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, one of the six largest natural history museums in the nation. Through its explorations, collections, research, exhibitions, and educational programs, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History advances knowledge of the Earth, its life and cultures, and acts as a steward of our natural world; this is our mission. Carnegie Science Center- http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/ The Carnegie Science Center is dedicated to educating, entertaining, exciting and inspiring the widest possible audience through programs in science and technology. Opened in October 1991, the Science Center currently houses an Omnimax Theater, a Digistar II Planetarium, a World War II submarine, and more than 250 exciting hands-on exhibits. The Chicago Academy of Sciences Home Page- http://www.chias.org/ Founded in 1857, the Chicago Academy of Sciences established Chicago\'s first museum and only museum to specialize in the ecology and natural history of the Midwest-from the Great Lakes to the prairies. Today, the Academy is a vital cultural and educational institution dedicated to promoting scientific literacy for all citizens. Children\'s Museum of Manhattan- http://www.cmom.org The Children\'s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) is a not-for-profit institution founded in 1973 to engage children and families in a partnership of learning that rewards curiosity, draws on individual experiences, and is fun and educational. Our goal is to inspire children and families to learn about themselves and our culturally diverse world through the arts, literacy, media & communications, science & the environment, and early childhood education. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History- http://www.cmnh.org/ The Cleveland Museum of Natural History encourages people of all ages to discover and explore the natural world. Curators care for over a million specimens in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geology, paleontology, zoology and wildlife biology. COSI - Science, Learning and Fun!- http://cosi.org/ COSI strives to provide an exciting and informative atmosphere for those of all ages to discover more about their environment, our accomplishments, our heritage, and ourselves. We hope to motivate a desire toward a better understanding of science, industry, health and history through involvement in exhibits, demonstrations, and a variety of activities and experiences. Deutsches Museum- http://www.deutsches-museum.de/e_index.htm The Deutsches Museum is one of the biggest technology and science museums in the world. It has an exhibition space of over 60,000 square meters including over 2000 partly interactive demonstrations. The Exploratorium- http://www.exploratorium.edu/ The San Francisco Exploratorium science museum for children has extensive online resources, including illustrated science experiments, sports science exhibits, digital library of images, web cams of the museum floor and Golden Gate Bridge, and a virtual dissection of a cow\'s eye. Field Museum of Natural History- http://www.Fmnh.org/ The Field Museum was founded in 1893 and is one of the world\'s great natural history museums - with a world-renowned scientific staff and collections of more than 20 million specimens and cultural objects. The Museum is located on Chicago\'s beautiful lake-front campus and serves one to two million visitors every year. Florida Museum of Natural History- http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/ Welcome to the Florida Museum of Natural History, the largest natural history museum in the southern United States, holding more than 16,000,000 specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, mollusks, butterflies, vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, Recent and fossil plants, and associated databases and libraries in the main museum research facility, J.C. Dickinson Hall on the University of Florida Campus, Gainesville, and in the Allyn Museum of Entomology in Sarasota. Franklin Institute Science Museum- http://www.fi.edu/ Don\'t miss the online exhibits about The Heart, Ben Franklin, and The Universe. The Spotlights and Educational Hotlists make browsing the web more meaningful for anyone interested in science education. For science teachers, the online units of study, like Wind and Living Things, support your hands-on science investigations. Visit the publications library for science activities or to ask an expert for help with science questions. Great Lakes Science Center- http://www.greatscience.com/ Find out what\'s playing at the Omnimax Theater and take the Great Lakes Pop Quiz to meet Atom, the Science Center mascot. IEEE Spectrum - U.S. Science and Technology Museums- http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/publicaccess/0995muse.html At the request of IEEE Spectrum magazine, engineers and their kids checked out some of the United States\' science and technology museums to see if they are accurate, current -- and fun. More than 50 families actually found time in their busy schedules to visit at least one museum and write up a report. Obviously, many worthy museums do not appear in these reports. That is only because no volunteers were able to visit them. Lawrence Hall of Science Kid\'s Corner- http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/kids/ Science is something everyone can do and enjoy. Here are some online activities: Bat Quiz; Tower of Hanoi; Feline Facts Quiz; Virtual Cat Show; Chem Mystery; Star Clock; Mr. Bones; Kids\' Web Pages; Mapping Fish Habitats; Juice Bottle Jingles; Tree Homes; TEAMS; Meet the Surf City Kids!; Biology Lab; Shongo Networks; Virtual Tour; Whale Songs; What is Your Foot Doing?, etc. Liberty Science Center- http://www.lsc.org/ Liberty Science Center (LSC) is a not-for-profit institution devoted to informal science and technology education through interactive exploration. Visitors of all ages experience the excitement of science and the joy of individual discovery. LSC is dedicated to challenging the imagination and encouraging a better understanding of our world. Miami Museum of Science- http://www.miamisci.org The Miami Museum of Science, in association with the Smithsonian Institution, seeks to create the nation\'s first international science center as part of Miami\'s billion-dollar urban and bayfront revitalization. Montshire Museum- http://www.montshire.net/ Montshire, a hands-on museum, located in Norwich, Vermont, has dozens of exciting exhibits relating to the natural and physical sciences, ecology, and technology. The Museum for the Preservation of Elevating History - http://www.theelevatormuseum.com/a/a.html-ssi Presents a narrative history of the technology and development of the Elevator . It traces the invention and use of engineering technologies to move people and objects around, up and down, and left and right, from the very beginnings of human made tools through to the latest uses in the space age. Museum of Science and Technology- http://www.msichicago.org This site makes learning fun and interesting (just like it should be, right?). In some cases you can download a QuickTime movie of the exhibits in motion. Museum of Science, Boston- http://www.mos.org/ Take a virtual online tour of the Museum of Science in Boston, and check out their online exhibits on topics like: archaeology, electricity, fractals, Leonardo da Vinci, and electron microscopes. National Museum of Natural History- http://www.mnh.si.edu/ The National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution offers a virtual tour of their facility and collections, and special online exhibits on topics like: Global Warming, Giant Squids, the Ocean Planet, the Hologlobe, and North Pacific anthropology. National Museum of Science & Industry- http://www.nmsi.ac.uk This site is a link to the three separate museums that comprise the National Museum of Science and Industry in London, England. The Three museums are: Science Museum, The National Railway Museum, and The National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television. Natural History Museum- http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/index.html The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County exists to advance knowledge and to enable people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests to appreciate their natural and cultural heritage. The Museum assembles, conserves, interprets, and holds in trust collections of irreplaceable objects from nature and human history. These collections reveal the history of the Earth and the evolution and diversity of life and culture. They sustain programs of research, exhibits, education, and publication. Ontario Science Center- HTTP://www.osc.on.ca/ This is the web site of the Ontario Science Center in Toronto Canada. It contains some interactive activities for children along with information about the center itself. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry- http://www.omsi.edu/ General information, exhibit descriptions, education programs, and online activities from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. The online activities include explorations of fountains, science whatzit, ballooning, and weather observation. Orlando Science Center- http://www.osc.org/ Hop on the elevator to take virtual tour of the exhibits at the Orlando Science Museum. Each floor of the museum is described in separate sections. Questacon- http://www.questacon.edu.au/ Welcome to Questacon, Australia\'s National Science and Technology Centre. Have fun with dinosaurs in Kidspace, enter a new dimension in 3D zone, try the activities in Hands-on zone, experience the challenge of Puzzlequest, venture into deep space at Comet central and discover great places to visit in Cool science. Royal Ontario Museum- http://www.rom.on.ca/ The collection and exhibition of objects, documents and books of any kind to illustrate and make known to the public the natural history of Ontario, Canada and the world; the collection and exhibition of objects, documents and books of any kind to illustrate and make known to the public the history of humankind in al the ages; the promotion of education, teaching, research and publication in any or all fields related to the objects of the Museum as referred above. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History- http://www.sbnature.org/ The Museum offers a close look at the story of the region\'s birth, geology and minerals, native wildlife, rich marine life and the culture of the Chumash Indians . Features include a 72-foot blue whale skeleton, the region\'s only public planetarium and observatory , a creek-side setting and a multi-cultural and science gift shop. Science Learning Network- http://www.sln.org/ News, links, and online exhibits from a network of major science museums. The cooperating institutions include: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry ; Exploratorium ; Museum of Science, Boston ; Science Museum of Minnesota ; Miami Museum of Science ; and the Franklin Institute. Science Museum of Minnesota- http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/ The science Museum of Minnesota has been the Upper Midwest\'s place for discovery since 1907. Current they offer online exhibits on topics such as whirligigs, monarch butterflies, worms, Mayans, and the Thinking Fountain. St. Louis Science Center- http://www.slsc.org/ The St. Louis Science Center serves as a bridge between scientist and layperson, encouraging an understanding of ecology and the environment, humanity, technology and the space sciences and how each interrelates. Currently there are online exhibits on pre-historic ecology and environment; and on the design of structures in architecture.
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