Museums Directory by Type:
See also the general directory.
Organizing by type hopefuly will make it easier to identify additions (or subtractions) that need to be made to the directory, which is one reason why the "other lists" have been included. Any help will be much appreciated. Please send suggesions to fiinnb@si.edu. Basic criteria, indicated on the Directory page, are that they are "historical museums of science and/or technology ... that make a special point of being accessible to scholars ... in general [with] significant documented collections and knowledgable curators."
Some categories, like "instruments," might apply to many museums; the inclusion here is based mainly on whether the museum itself has made a point of mentioning them. We have no objection to adding more museums to any particular type. On the other hand, "general" museums frequently lack collections in certain areas,which, if deemed significant, will sometimes be mentioned by the "comments" links.
AIR, SPACE
Canada
Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Canada, www.aviation.technomuses.ca [Air, Space]
Germany
Otto-Lilienthal-Museum, Anklam, Germany, www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/intro.htm [Air]
US
National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, US, www.airandspace.si.edu [Air, Space]
National Museum of the US Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, US, www.nationalmuseum.af.mil [Air]Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, US, www.wrhs.org [Air,also Automobles]
Other lists
Aerofiles.com (primarily US and Canada): http://aero.com/museums/museumss.htmWikipedia aerospace museums (worldwide):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aerospace_museums
ASTRONOMY
US
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, US, www.adlerplanetarium.org/researchcollections [also Instruments]Other lists:
History of AstronomyWorking Group(worldwide; extensivelistincludes memorials, exhibits) https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr/ha_mus.htmlWikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_museums (a half-dozen sites)
AUTOMOBILE
US
Western Reserve Historical Society,Cleveland, US, www.wrhs.org,[also Air]
BIOGRAPHY
Hungary
Semmelweis Orvostoerteneti Muzeum (Archive for the History of Medicine), Budapest, Hungary, www.semmelweis.museum.hu [also Medicine]Germany
Ernst-Haeckel Haus, Jena, Germany, www.ehh.uni-jena.de/Museum.html [also Site]Serbia`
Tesla Museum, Krunska 51, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia, www.tesla-museum.orgUS
Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, US, www.nps.gov/edis [also Site}Edison Winter Home and Museum, Fort Myers, US, www.efwefla.org [also Site]
CHEMISTRY
US
Science History Institute, Philadelphia, US, https://www.sciencehistory.org/
CLOCKS
CHINA
National Palace Museum; Scientific Instrument and Clock Hall, 4 Dongcheng, Beijing, China
http://www.dpm.org.cn/www_oldweb/English/default.html [Instruments, Clocks]GERMANY
Das Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Robert-Gerwig-Platz 1, Furtwangen, 78120, Germany, www.deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de [Clocks]
COMPUTER
UK
York University Computer Museum, Toronto, Canada, www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/, [also University]US
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, US, www.computerhistory.orgOther Lists
Wikipedia (worldwide; about 50) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_museum
DENTISTRY
US
Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, Baltimore, US, www.historyofdentistry.org/museumOther Lists
Wikipedia (7 museums inllarger list of medical museums): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dental_museums
ELECTRICITY
UK
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno, Penzance, UK, www.porthcurno.org.uk [Telegraph]UK
Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis, US, www.thebakken.orgAntique Wireless Association Electronic-Communication Museum, Bloomfield, US, www.antiquewireless.org [Radio]
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, US, www.movingimage.us, [Television; also Photography]
National Electronics Museum, Baltimore, US, www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org [Electronics, Radar]
INDUSTRY
UK
National Waterfront Museum: Wales, Swansea, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea/about [also Maritime]National Slate Museum: Wales, Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales, LL55 4TY, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/slate/ [also Material, Site]
National Wool Museum: Wales, Carmarthenshire, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/wool/, [also Material]
US
Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, US, www.thebmi.orgOther Lists
Wikipedia (extensive; broken down int sub-categories): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Industry_museums
INSTRUMENTS
Australia
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney; G/collecosper Lane; Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia, http://sydney.edu.au/museumstions/macleay.shtml [also University]Canada
University of Toronto Museum of Scientific Instruments, Room 316 Victoria College 91 Charles Street West, Toronto, ON, M5S 1K7, Canada, http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/utmusi [also University]
China
National Palace Museum; Scientific Instrument and Clock Hall, Beijing, China
http://www.dpm.org.cn/www_oldweb/English/default.html
Germany
Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Zwinger; Dresden, Germany, www.skd.museum/?id=82Netherlands
Teylers Museum, Spaame 16, Haarlem, 2011, Netherlands, www.teylersmuseum.nl [also Site]UK
Hunterian Museum, University Avenue; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G 12 800, UK, www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian [also Instruments]Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3RH, UK, www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple [also University]
US
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, US, www.adlerplanetarium.org/researchcollections [also Astronomy]Harvard University Collection of Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, MA, US, http://chsi.harvard.edu/ [also University]
Australia
Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Australia, www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm
Western Australian Museum Maritime, Fremantle, Australia, http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/wa-maritime-museum
Bermuda
Bermuda Maritime Museum, , Bermuda, www.bmm.bm
Canada
Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Kingston, Canada, www.marmuseum.ca
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Canada, www.museum.gov.ns.ca/mmanew/en
Chile
Museo Maritimo Nacional, Valparaiso, Chile, www.museonaval.cl
China
Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong, China, www.hkmaritimemuseum.org
Denmark
Danish Maritime Museum, Elsinore, Denmark, http://mfs.dk/en/
Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk
Germany
Schifffahrtsmuseum, Rostock, Germany, www.abc.se/~m10354/mar/shipmus.htm
Macau
Museu Maritimo, Macau, www.museumaritimo.gov.mo/index_e.html
Sweden
Sjohistoriska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, www.sjohistoriska.se/en
Vasamuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, www.vasamuseet.se
UK
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK, www.rmg.co.uk
National Waterfront Museum: Wales, Swansea, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea/about [also Industry]
Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, UK, www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org
US
Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, US, www.crmm.org
Great Lakes Historical Society, Vermillion, US, www.inlandseas.org
Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, US, www.phillyseaport.org
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, US, www.lcmm.org
Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, US, www.mainemaritimemuseum.org
Mariners' Museum, Newport News, US, www.marinersmuseum.org
Maritime Museum of San Diego, San Diego, US, www.sdmaritime.org/the-museum
Mystic Seaport, Mystic, US, www.mysticseaport.org
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, US, www.whalingmuseum.org
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco , US, www.nps.gov/safr/index.htmOther Lists
Council of Amerian Maritime Museums (broken down by states): http://councilofamericanmaritimemuseums.org/member-directory/state-listing/International Congress of Martime Museums Directory (new data base in process, October 2015): http://www.icmmonline.org/
MATERIAL
UK
Blists Hill Open Air Museum lronbdrige Gorge Museum, Telford, UK, www.ironbridge.org.uk [Iron]National Slate Museum: Wales, Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales, LL55 4TY, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/slate/ [Industry, Slate, Site]
National Wool Museum: Wales, Carmarthenshire, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/wool/, [Wool; also Industry]
Canada
Museum of Health Care, Kingston, UK, www.museumofhealthcare.ca
Denmark
Medicinsk Museion Københavns Universitet, København, Denmark, www.museion.ku.dk [also University]Germany
Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany, www.dhmd.deDeutsches Medizin-Historisches Museum, Ingolstadt, Germany, www.dmm-ingolstadt.de
Hungary
Semmelweis Orvostoerteneti Muzeum (Archive for the History of Medicine), Budapest, Hungary, www.semmelweis.museum.hu [also Biography]Italy
Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' Museo di Storia della Medicina, Rome, Italy, www.histmed.itSouth Africa
Adler Museum of the History of Medicine, Johannesburg, South Africa, www.wits.ac.za/adlermuseumofmedicine/10343/adler_museum_of_medicine.htmlSpain
Fundacio-Museu d'Historia de la Medicina deCatalunya, Terrassa, Spain, www.museudelamedicina.cat/cat/museu/home.htmSwitzerland
Med-Historisches Institut, Zurich, Switzerland, www.mhiz.uzh.ch
UK
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret, London, UK, www.thegarret.org.ukSt Bartholomew's Hospital Museum, London, UK, www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/search.aspx?phrase=museum
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds, UK, http://www.thackraymedicalmuseum.co.uk/
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK, www.wellcomecollection.org
US
Dittrick Museum of Medical History, Cleveland, US, www.case.edu/artsci/dittrick/museumNatonal Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, US, www.civilwarmed.org
Other Lists
Dittrick Medical History Center (one list inside the US, one outside; emphasis on research): http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/research/links-of-interest/medical-museums-outside-the-united-states/Wikipedia (about three dozen, international): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_museums
Medical Museums Association (currnt members--people, but most associated with museums): http://medicalmuseumsassociation.org/?
Austria
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military History Museum), Vienna, Austria, www.hgm.or.atBelgium
Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, Brussels, Belgium, www.klm-mra.beBulgaria
National Museum of Military History, Sofia, Bulgaria, www.militarymuseum.bg/eng/index.htmlCzech Republic
Voyenský Historický Ústav (Military Historical Institute), Prague, Czech Republic, www.militarymuseum.czFrance
Musée de l’Armée / Musée National d’Armes et d’Histoire Militaire, Paris, France, www.musee-armee.frGermany
Militärhistorisches Museum, Dresden, Germany, www.mgfa.de/html/museen_dresden_2005.phpSerbia
Military Museum, Belgrade, Serbia,www.muzej.mod.gov.rs/enUK
Imperial War Museum, London, UK, www.iwm.org.ukNational Army Museum, London, UK, www.national-army-museum.ac.uk
Royal Armouries: Fort Nelson, Fareham, UK,www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/fort-nelson
Royal Armouries: Leeds, Leeds, UK,www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/leeds
Royal Armouries: Tower of London, London, UK, www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/tower-of-london
Other Lists
Olive-Drab, US Military Museums (about 100, with brief descriptions): http://olive-drab.com/od_history_museums_us.phpWorld Wide Militaria (about 50, mailnly US, British, French, German): http://www.wwmeinc.com/links/museums.php
Belgium
Musée des Instruments de Musique, Brussels, Belgium, www.mim.be/museumGermany
Museum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, http://mfm.uni-leipzig.de/dt/index.phpMusikinstrumenten-Museum, Berlin, Germany, www.sim.spk-berlin.de/mim_3.html
Italy
Museo di Strumenti Musicali dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy, http://museo.santacecilia.it/museo/UK
Royal Academy of Music Museum, London, UK, www.ram.ac.uk/museum
PHARMACY
UK
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, UK, www.rpharms.com/about-pharmacy/our-museum.aspOther Lists
Wikipedia (21, international): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pharmacy_museumsGriffenhagen, Stieb, Fisher Guide to Pharmacy museums in US andCanada, 1999 (almost 200, with descriptions): http://pharmacy.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/content/american-institute-history-pharmacy/historical-sources-pharmacy-faq/museumguide.pdf
PHOTOGRAPHY (including Motion Pictures)
Germany
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany, www.deutsches-filmmuseum.deUK
National Media Museum, Bradford, UK, www.nationalmediamuseum.org.ukUS
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, US, www.movingimage.us [also electricity]Oher Lists
Wikipedia, Photographic technology museums (13, international): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographic_technology_museumsCamerapedia (about 100, international, some descriptions): http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Camera_and_photography_museums
Canada
Musée Ferroviaire Canadiene, Saint-Constant, Canada, www.exporail.orgDenmark
Danmarks Jernbanemuseet (Denmark Railway Museum), København, Denmark, www.jernbanemuseet.dkGermany
Deutsche Bahn Museum, Nürnberg, Germany, www.dbmuseum.deSpain
Museo del ferrocarril, Madrid, Spain, www.museodelferrocarril.orgUK
National Railway Museum, York, UK, www.nrm.org.ukUS
B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, US, www.borail.orgCalifornia State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, US, www.csrmf.org
Other Lists
Wikiipedia (international): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_railway_museums
SCIENCE
Switzerland
Museum of History of Science, Geneva, Switzerland, www.ville-ge.ch/mhs
SCHOOL
Argentina
Museo Tecnologico Ingeniero Eduardo Latzina,Buenos Aires, Argentina, www.aeok.org.ar/museo
Germany
Ernst-Haeckel Haus, Jena, Germany, www.ehh.uni-jena.de/Museum.html [also Biography]Netherlands
Teyler's Museum, Spaame 16, Haarlem, 2011, Netherlands, www.teylersmuseum.eu [also Instruments]Sweden
Observatoriemuseet, Drottninggaten 120, Stockholm, 113 60, Sweden, http://www.observatoriet.kva.se [also Astronomy]
UK
Blists Hill Open Air Museum lronbridge Gorge Museum, Telford, Shropshire, TF8 7AW, UK, www.ironbridge.org.uk [also Iron]National Railway Museum, York, UK, www.nrm.org.uk [also Raile]
National Slate Museum: Wales, Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales, LL55 4TY, UK, www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/slate/ [also Industry, Slate]Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret, St Thomas's Church; 9A St Thomas's Street, London, SE1 9RT, UK, www.thegarret.org.uk [also Medicine]
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno; Penzance, UK, www.porthcurno.org.uk
US
Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, US, www.nps.gov/edis [also Biography]Edison Winter Home and Museum, Fort Myers, US, www.efwefla.org[also Biography]
UNIVERSITY
Argentina
Museo de Ciencia y Tecnica, Facultad de Ingenieria Av. Las Heras 2214, Buenos Aires, 1127, Argentina, www.fi.uba.ar/es/node/170 [also Instruments]
Canada
University of Toronto Museum of Scientific Instruments, https://utsic.escalator.utoronto.ca/home/ [also Instruments]
York University Computer Museum, Toronto, Canada, www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/, [also Computer]
Denmark
Medicinsk Museion Københavns Universitet, Bredgade 62, København, K, DK-1260, Denmark, www.museion.ku.dk [also Medicine]
UK
Dundee University Museum Collections, Dundee, Scotland, UK, www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/
US
Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, MA, US, http://chsi.harvard.edu/ [also Instruments]MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, US, http://mitmuseum.mit.edu/ [University]