List of science museums

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

Europe

Austria

• Ars Electronica, Linz
• Haus der Musik (House of Music), Vienna
• Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna
• Welios, Wels (subject: "renewable energy")

Belgium

• Euro Space Center, Wallonia, Belgium
• Hidrodoe, Herentals
• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
• Technopolis (Belgium), Mechelen, Belgium

Czech Republic

• Mendel Museum of Genetics, Brno
• National Technical Museum (Prague), Prague

Finland

• Heureka, Vantaa, Finland
• Tietomaa, Oulu, Finland

France

• Agropolis, Montpellier
• Cité de l'espace, Toulouse
• Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France
• Micropolis (La Cité des Insectes), Millau
• Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
• Palais de la Découverte, Paris, France
• Vulcania, Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Auvergne

Germany

• Deutsches Museum, Munich
• German Hygiene Museum, Dresden
• German Museum of Technology (Berlin)
• Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum, Feucht, Bavaria
• Mathematikum, Gießen
• Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt
• Otto-Lilienthal-Museum, Anklam
• Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg
• Rheinisches Industriemuseum, Oberhausen, Ratingen, Solingen, Bergisch Gladbach, Engelskirchen, Euskirchen
• Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
• Technikmuseum Speyer
• Spectrum - German Museum of Technology (Berlin), Berlin
• Völklinger Hütte (Völklingen Ironworks), Völklingen
• Universum Science Center, Bremen

Greece

• Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum - NOESIS, Greece

Hungary

• Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
• Csodák Palotája, Budapest

Ireland

• Birr Castle: Ireland's Historic Science Centre, Birr
• Science Gallery, Dublin

Monaco

• Oceanographic Museum, Monaco

Italy

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

Netherlands

• Museon, The Hague, Netherlands
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands
• Science Center NEMO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Teyler's Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Norway

• Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway
• Trondheim Science Museum, Trondheim
• Science Factory (Vitenfabrikken), Sandnes

Poland

• Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland

Portugal

• Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra
• Visionarium (Portugal), Santa Maria da Feira

Romania

• Ştefan Procopiu Science and Technology Museum, Iaşi

Serbia

• Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade

Spain

• Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia
• Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

Sweden

• Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm
• Universeum, Gothenburg

Switzerland

• Microcosm (CERN), Meyrin
• Technorama, Winterthur

Turkey

• ITU Science Center, Istanbul
• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul
• Silahtarağa Power Station Energy Museum, Istanbul
• Turkey Science Centers Foundation, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Latin America

Argentina

• Parque Astronòmico la Punta, La Punta, San Luis, Argentina

Brazil

• National Museum of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Mexico

• Alfa Planetarium, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

North America

Canada

(listed by province)

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

Alberta

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

British Columbia

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

Manitoba

• Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Nova Scotia

• Discovery Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Ontario

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

Saskatchewan

• Saskatchewan Science Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan

Quebec

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

United States

Main article: List of science museums in the United States

Asia and Oceania

Australia

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

China

• Beijing Museum of Natural History
• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Pudong, Shanghai
• Sichuan Science and Technology Museum, Sichuan

Hong Kong

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

India

• National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), India
• Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata
• National Science Centre, Delhi
• Science City Kolkata, Kolkata
• Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore
• Srikrishna Science Centre, Patna
• Hakim Karam Hussain Museum on History of Medicine and Sciences
• Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai
• Regional Science Centre, Bhopal

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• Nehru Museum of Science and Technology, Kharagpur
• Science Park, Jaipur

Japan

• Chiba Museum of Science and Industry
• Gifu City Science Museum, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture
• Hiroshima Children's Museum, Hiroshima
• Miraikan, Tokyo
• National Science Museum of Japan, 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
• Science Alive, the New Zealand Science Centre Christchurch, New Zealand

Philippines

• Philippine Science Heritage Center, Bicutan, Taguig City
• SM Science Discovery Center, Pasay City, Metro Manila
• Philippine Science Centrum, Riverbanks, Marikina City

Russia

• Museum of Military Medicine, Saint Petersburg
• Kunstkamera, Saint Petersburg
• Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
• Memorial Museum of Astronautics, Moscow

Singapore

• Science Centre, Singapore, Jurong East

South Korea

• National Science Museum, South Korea, Daejeon

Thailand

• National Science Museum, Pathum Thani

Turkey

• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul
• Silahtarağa Power Station Energy Museum, Istanbul

Middle East

Egypt

• Planetarium Science Center

Iran

• Sciences and Astronomy Center of Tehran, Tehran

Israel

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

Africa

South Africa

• MTN Sciencentre, Cape Town
• Sci-Enza, University of Pretoria, Pretoria

See also

• List of natural history museums
• Planetarium

External links

• Map the World's Science Museums on Nature blogs
• Association of Science-Technology Centers
• Asia Pacific Network of Science and Technology Centres
• SAASTEC - Southern African Association of Science & Technology Centers
• Australasian Science and Technology Exhibitors Network
• Canadian Association of Science Centres
• ECSITE - European Collaborative for Science, Industry and Technology Exhibitions
• UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC), formerly ECSITE-UK
• BIG - British Interactive Group, for individuals working in the sector
• Irish Science Centres Association Network (iSCAN)
• NCSM - National Council of Science Museums in India
• AMMCCyT (Mexican Association of Science and Technology Museums and Centers)
• Nordisk Science Center Forbund (Nordic Science Center Association)
• REDPOP - Interactive Science Centres in South America