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Science Museums

Leuven, Belgium

Museum voor Dierkunde

This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.

Norman, Oklahoma

National Weather Museum

This enthusiast-led facility is the only museum in the country dedicated to the preservation of weather artifacts.

Geneva, Switzerland

Musée d'Histoire des Sciences (Museum of History of Science)

A treasure trove of scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Rodeo, New Mexico

Chiricahua Desert Museum

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

Designed by English sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, models of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals were destined for Central Park's never-realized Paleozoic Museum.

The Bizarre True Story of Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum

For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying its dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder.

Sarah Durn August 3, 2023

Podcast: Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics

Exploring the intersection between science and folk art.

The Podcast Team November 16, 2022

A view of the Daily Planet Theater from W Jones St.

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.

Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is one of several American museums whose collections include the remains of Black people.

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

The main exhibit room

Tay Nguyen Biological Museum

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

An exploded gas line.

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.

The exhibit is both informative and disgusting.

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.

Asiago Astrophysical Observatory

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

Two ichthyosaur skull replicas on the fourth floor just outside the main museum.

Middletown, Connecticut

Joe Webb Peoples Museum

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

Wilson Greatbatch's tool box.

Clarence, New York

Greatbatch Barn

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