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American Museum of Natural History

http://www.amnh.org/

The museum’s collections include over 30 million items, ranging from “dinosaur fossils, to a sixty-three-foot-long canoe carved by the Haida Indians, to a slice of a giant sequoia tree, to the costume of an African spirit dancer.” The site lists a few of its thousands of research projects, along with some photos. The museum displays a wide range of temporary exhibits, which also can be explored at this site.

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History

http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/

Founded in 1895, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is one of the nation's leading research museums and is renowned for its Dinosaur Hall. This page was established to provide news the museum’s events, as well as developments in the field of natural history in general. It is divided into 13 different and wide-ranging scientific sections, from anthropology and birds to minerals and nature reserves.

The Cleveland museum of Natural History

http://www.cmnh.org/

This museum has over a million specimens in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geology, paleontology, zoology, and wildlife biology. It also has astronomy programs, live animal shows, and a dinosaur discovery area. Site has links to exhibits and museum news.

Florida Museum of Natural History

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

With over 16 million specimens, this is the largest museum of natural history in the Southern United States. This site features descriptions of its collections in both the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Natural Sciences, which includes mammals, birds, fossils, plants, and more.

The Museum of Natural History of the University of Pisa

http://astrpi.difi.unipi.it/Museo_di_Calci/MusSN.html

Site discusses the museum’s natural history collections, consisting of about 200,000 items. The museum’s 15 galleries contain exhibits including mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology to name a few, as well as a cetacean gallery that is unique in Europe for its size and number of specimens.

Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

This site defines and explains each of the museum’s five main departments and also discusses its six focus areas for research. For each department (botany, zoology, entomology, paleontology, and mineralogy), the site provides photos and details about several ongoing research projects at the museum. You also can link to the Science Casebook, an interactive exploration of some of the museum’s work.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

http://nmnhwww.si.edu/nmnhweb.html

This extensive site has everything you ever wanted to know about this museum, and many things you wouldn’t have thought to ask. (Do you know what a cephalopod is without looking it up?) The museum’s seven scientific departments are: anthropology, botany, entomology, invertebrate zoology, mineral sciences, paleontology, and vertebrate zoology. Online exhibits at the time of this book’s publication included “In Search of Giant Squid” and “Hologlobe.” This is an amazing site, and even if you’re not a science buff, you’ll find it fascinating.

Swedish Museum of Natural History

http://www.nrm.se/

The largest museum in Sweden, it has over 18 million objects and is one of the 10 largest natural history museums in the world. The page is divided into research; exhibitions, events and education, and education; Cosmonova, one of the most modern Omnimax theaters in the world; and administration and service.