List of science museums

Below is the list of science museums all over the world. See Science museum for definitions.

Europe[]

Austria[]

• Ars Electronica Center, Linz
• Haus der Musik (House of Music), Vienna
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Natural History Museum), Vienna
• Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Technical Museum), Vienna

Belgium[]

• Euro Space Center, Libin
• Hidrodoe, Herentals
• Pass, Frameries
• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
• Technopolis, Mechelen

Bulgaria[]

• National Polytechnical Museum, Sofia

Croatia[]

• Nikola Tesla Memorial Center, Smiljan
• Split Science Museum and Zoo, Split
• Technical Museum, Zagreb

Czech Republic[]

• National Technical Museum, Prague
• Techmania Science Center, Pilsen

Denmark[]

• Kroppedal, Copenhagen
• Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
• Science Museums, Aarhus
• Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen

Estonia[]

• AHHAA, Tartu

Finland[]

• Arktikum, Rovaniemi
• Heureka, Vantaa
• Tietomaa, Oulu

France[]

• Ampère Museum, Lyon
• Cité de l'espace, Toulouse
• Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris
• Micropolis (La Cité des Insectes), Millau
• Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
• Palais de la Découverte, Paris
• Vulcania, Saint-Ours-les-Roches
• Exploradôme, Vitry-sur-Seine
• Le Vaisseau, Strasbourg

Germany[]

• Deutsches Museum, Munich
• German Hygiene Museum, Dresden
• German Museum of Technology (Berlin)
• Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum, Feucht, Bavaria
• de:Liebig-Museum, Gießen
• Mathematikum, Gießen
• Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt
• Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt
• Otto-Lilienthal-Museum, Anklam
• Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg
• name used by several active science museums in different cities (e.g. Bremerhaven, Flensburg, Lüdenscheid and Peenemünde)
• Rheinisches Industriemuseum, Oberhausen, Ratingen, Solingen, Bergisch Gladbach, Engelskirchen, Euskirchen
• Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
• Technikmuseum Speyer
• TECHNOSEUM, Mannheim
• Spectrum – German Museum of Technology (Berlin), Berlin
• Völklinger Hütte (Völklingen Ironworks), Völklingen
• Universum Science Center, Bremen

Greece[]

• OTE Museum of Telecommunications, Kifisia, Athens
• Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum, Thessaloniki

Hungary[]

• Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest

Monaco[]

• Oceanographic Museum

Ireland (Republic)[]

• Birr Castle, County Offaly (contains Ireland's Historic Science Centre)
• Blackrock Castle, Cork (observatory)
• National Science Museum at Maynooth
• Science Gallery, Dublin

Italy[]

• Città della Scienza, Napoli
• Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza), Florence. Many of Galileo Galilei's original instruments are housed in this museum.
• Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan
• Natural History Museum, Milan

Netherlands[]

• Discovery Center Continium, Kerkrade
• Museon, The Hague
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
• Science Center NEMO, Amsterdam
• Teyler's Museum, Haarlem

Norway[]

• Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo
• Trondheim Science Museum, Trondheim
• The Science Factory, Sandnes

Poland[]

• Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw

Portugal[]

• National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Lisbon
• Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra
• Visionarium, Santa Maria da Feira

Romania[]

• Ştefan Procopiu Science and Technology Museum, Iaşi
• "Prof.eng. Dimitrie Leonida" National Technical Museum, București

Russia[]

Russia has over 250 science and technology museums. Some include:

• Kunstkamera, Saint Petersburg
• Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
• Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow

Serbia[]

• Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade

Spain[]

• Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia
• CosmoCaixa Barcelona, Barcelona
• Museum of Natural Sciences, Barcelona
• Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
• Parque de las Ciencias (Granada), Granada

Sweden[]

• Universeum, Gothenburg
• Teknikens Hus, Luleå
• Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm
• Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm

Switzerland[]

• Microcosm, CERN, Meyrin
• Technorama, Winterthur
• Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne

Turkey[]

• Feza Gürsey Science Centre, Ankara 1993
• ITU Science Center, Istanbul
• Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam (İstanbul İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Müzesi), Istanbul
• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul
• Silahtarağa Power Station Energy Museum, Istanbul

United Kingdom[]

• Armagh Planetarium, Armagh, Northern Ireland
• Army Medical Services Museum, Mytchett, Surrey
• Anaesthesia Heritage Centre, London
• At-Bristol, Bristol, England
• Benjamin Franklin House, London
• Bletchley Park, Bletchley, England
• British Dental Association Museum, London
• British Optical Association Museum, London
• British Red Cross Museum, London
• Catalyst, Cheshire, England
• Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Dundee Science Centre, Dundee, Scotland
• Enginuity, Shropshire, England
• Fleming Museum, London
• Florence Nightingale Museum, London
• Foredown Tower Countryside Centre, Portslade
• Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
• Glenside Museum, Bristol
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy, Bath
• Hunterian Museum at Royal College of Surgeons, London
• INTECH, Winchester
• Manchester Museum, Manchester
• Michael Faraday Museum, London
• Mills Observatory, Dundee, Scotland
• Museum of Bath at Work, Bath
• Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Manchester, England
• Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
• National Conservation Centre, Liverpool
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England
• National Space Centre, Leicester, England
• Natural History Museum, London
• Old Operating Theatre, London
• Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, Scotland, focuses especially on earth science
• Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno, Cornwall
• REME Museum of Technology, Arborfield
• Royal Institution: Faraday Museum, London, England
• Royal London Hospital Museum and Archives, London
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, London
• Satrosphere Science Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Science Museum, London, England
• Science Oxford, Oxford, England
• Shildon Locomotion Museum, Shildon, England
• Snibston Discovery Park, Coalville, Leicestershire
• Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Techniquest, Cardiff Bay, Wales
• Techniquest Glyndŵr, Wrexham, Wales
• Thackray Museum, Leeds
• Thinktank, Birmingham, Birmingham
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
• Whitby Wizard, Whitby, Yorkshire, England
• Woolsthorpe Manor, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth

Ukraine[]

• New Energy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Latin America[]

Argentina[]

• Galileo Galilei planetarium, Parque Tres de Febrero, Palermo, Buenos Aires
• Parque Astronòmico la Punta, Universidad de La Punta, Ciudad de La Punta, San Luis, Argentina

Brazil[]

• Museum of Life, Rio de Janeiro
• National Museum of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
• Museum of Science and Technology (PUCRS), Porto Alegre

Colombia[]

• Parque Explora, Medellin
• Maloka, Bogotá

Mexico[]

• Alfa Planetarium, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
• Museo Descubre, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
• Museo Interactivo de Xalapa, Xalapa, Veracruz
• Universum (UNAM), México, Distrito Federal
• Museo Modelo de Ciencias e Industria, Toluca, Estado de Mexico
• Palace of the Inquisition (Museum of Mexican Medicine), Mexico City
• San Pedro y San Pablo College (Museum of Light), Mexico City

North America[]

Canada[]

(listed by province)

For all categorized science museums in Canada, see: Science museums in Canada

Alberta[]

• Telus Spark, Calgary
• Telus World of Science, Edmonton

British Columbia[]

• Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver
• H. R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver
• Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria
• Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver

Manitoba[]

• Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg

New Brunswick[]

• Science East, Fredericton

Nova Scotia[]

• Discovery Centre, Halifax

Ontario[]

• Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa
• Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa
• Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
• Personal Computer Museum, Brantford
• Science North and Dynamic Earth in Sudbury
• Canada South Science City in Windsor

Saskatchewan[]

• Saskatchewan Science Centre, Regina

Quebec[]

• Cosmodome (Laval), Quebec
• Mont Mégantic Observatory, Notre-Dame-des-Bois

United States[]

Asia and Oceania[]

Australia[]

• Macleay Museum – Sydney University Museums, Sydney
• Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
• Queensland Museum, Brisbane
• Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra
• Scienceworks Museum, Melbourne
• Scitech, Perth
• South Australian Museum, Adelaide

China[]

• China Science and Technology Museum, Beijing
• Beijing Museum of Natural History
• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Pudong, Shanghai
• Sichuan Science and Technology Museum, Sichuan
• Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou

Hong Kong[]

• Health Education Exhibition and Resource Centre, Kowloon Park
• Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Mid-Levels
• Fanling Environmental Resource Centre, Fanling
• Hong Kong Science Museum, Tsim Sha Tsui
• Hong Kong Space Museum, Tsim Sha Tsui

India[]

• Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata
• Birla Science Museum, Hyderabad
• Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad
• Birla Planetarium, Chennai
• Hakim Karam Hussain Museum on History of Medicine and Sciences
• Kerala Science and Technology Museum, Thiruvananthapuram
• National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)
• National Science Centre, Delhi
• Nehru Museum of Science and Technology, Kharagpur
• Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai
• Regional Science Centre, Bhopal
• Science City Kolkata, Kolkata
• Science Park, Jaipur
• Srikrishna Science Centre, Patna
• Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore

Indonesia[]

• Bandung Geological Museum, Bandung
• Bogor Zoology Museum, Bogor
• Jakarta Planetarium and Observatory, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta

Japan[]

• Chiba Museum of Science and Industry
• Gifu City Science Museum, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture
• Hiroshima Children's Museum, Hiroshima
• Miraikan, Tokyo
• Nagoya City Science Museum, Nagoya
• National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
• Osaka Science Museum, Osaka, Japan
• Science Museum of Map and Survey, Tsukuba City
• Yamanashi Science Museum

Malaysia[]

• Pusat Sains Negara (National Science Centre), Kuala Lumpur
• The Green Connection, Kota Kinabalu

New Zealand[]

• Exscite, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Museum of Transport and Technology, Western Springs, Auckland
• Otago Museum, Dunedin

Philippines[]

• The Mind Museum, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
• National Museum of Natural History, Rizal Park, City of Manila

Singapore[]

• Science Centre Singapore, Jurong East

South Korea[]

• National Science Museum, South Korea, Daejeon
• Gwacheon National Science Museum, Gyeonggi-do
• Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju
• Ulsan Science Museum, Ulsan

Taiwan[]

• Insect Science Museum, Taipei
• National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, Keelung
• National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei
• National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung
• National Science and Technology Museum, Kaohsiung
• National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung

Thailand[]

• National Science Museum, Pathum Thani

Middle East[]

Egypt[]

• Planetarium Science Center

Israel[]

• Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem
• Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space, Haifa

Africa[]

South Africa[]

• MTN Sciencentre, Cape Town

See also[]

• List of natural history museums
• Planetarium
• Science tourism

References[]

External links[]

• Map the World's Science Museums on Nature blogs