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Science Museums

Podcast: Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics

Exploring the intersection between science and folk art.

The Podcast Team November 16, 2022

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Daily Planet Theater

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

A ‘Weird’ Ancient Marine Reptile Surfaces Thanks to the ‘Bone Biddies’

The unique plesiosaur defies the fossil rulebook—just ask the “paleogrannies” who prepared it for study.

Gemma Tarlach September 28, 2022

Groningen, Netherlands

Groningen University Museum

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

Podcast: Tree of 40 Fruits

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team November 29, 2021

Richmond, Australia

Pooseum

A small museum dedicated to taking the taboo out of all things related to poo.

U.S. Museums Hold the Remains of Thousands of Black People

Cadavers from marginalized communities have been co-opted for collections since the 1700s.

Delande Justinvil and Chip Colwell April 12, 2021

Tay Nguyen Biological Museum

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Museum of Material Failures

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

Detroit, Michigan

The Fatberg at the Michigan Science Center

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Asiago Astrophysical Observatory

The 1940s structure houses what was once Europe's largest telescope.

Middletown, Connecticut

Joe Webb Peoples Museum

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Clarence, New York

Greatbatch Barn

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

Washington, D.C.

National Academy of Sciences

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

Tübingen, Germany

Schlosslabor

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

London, England

Kirkaldy Testing Museum

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

Madison, Wisconsin

L.R. Ingersoll Physics Museum

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

science museums

Now on Display: An Ice-Age Polar Bear Skeleton Found in a Laundry Room

The startling story behind a new exhibit at a Norwegian archaeology museum.

Christina Ayele Djossa January 24, 2018