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•  transportation - includes model railroads, automotive, motorcycles
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cowboy museums

•  Autry Museum of Western Heritage - explores the history, traditions, and diverse cultures of the American West through extensive permanent displays, frequent special exhibitions, and innovative educational programming
•  National Cowboy Hall of Fame - tour a typical Old West town with authentic 19th century artifacts, and see the Rodeo and Western Performers Halls of Fame
•  William S. Hart Ranch and Museum - houses the collection of western art, Native American artifacts, and early Hollywood memorabilia of this silent film cowboy star and director
•  see also: ghost towns

fire fighting museums

•  Central Insurance Fire Engine Museum
•  Cincinnati Fire Museum - working to educate children and adults about fire safety and prevention
•  Conway Fire Museum - museum of vintage hand and horse-drawn fire apparatus, representing the lifetime collection of former Fire Chief W. Fred Conway, who is the originator of emergency telephone stickers, and author of several books
•  Fire Fighters Historical Society - dedicated to fire fighters including a memorial to fallen comrades, histories of fire departments, listings of museums, and photographs of equipment and fires
•  Fire Museum Network
•  Fire Museum of Memphis - high-tech emphasis on education and fire prevention
•  Firefighters Museum Society - Calgary - to acquire, restore, maintain and protect apparatus, pictures, equipment and memorabilia of the Calgary Fire Department's past
•  Firehouse Museum - displays a large collection of fire-fighting equipment and memorabilia from across the USA and around the world
•  Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting - with almost 90 pieces of historic fire apparatus on exhibit, the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes honors firefighters dead in line of duty and decorated for heroism
•  Kansas City Fire Museum - dedicated to all that have made their last alarm
•  Pioneer Hook & Ladder - dedicated to all firefighters; a tax exempt historical society

objects

•  Berkeley Systems Toaster Exhibit - dedicated to showcasing the aesthetics and functionality of a single kitchen appliance. Features the Gelman Collection
•  Sulabh International Museum of Toilets - collection of facts, pictures, and objects detailing the historic evolution of toilets from 2,500 BC to date
•  Timex Watch and Clock Museum

cultures

•  International Museum of Cultures - increases interest and empathy for the preliterate peoples of the world
•  Jorvik Viking Centre

people

•  American Police Hall Of Fame & Museum - memorial listing officers killed on duty. Exhibits, crime prevention, child safety, scholarship and police family survivor programs
•  American Vaudeville Museum - includes magazine information and past articles
•  Ava Gardner Museum - in Smithfield, NC; Ava Gardner Fest is October 1, 2005
•  Edvard Grieg Museum - home of the Norwegian composer, located in Bergen on the west coast of Norway
•  Danish Immigrant Museum - dedicated to the education and fostering the traditions and customs of the Danish American people

women

•  The Women's Museum - in Dallas, TX, USA; an institute for the future
•  International Mothers' Hall Fame - registry and tribute to honor mothers in a way words never could. Memorial Garden planned to open on Mother's Day 1999, between Many and Leesville, Louisiana

industry

•  American Advertising Museum - dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of advertising in America and beyond

•  Bad Fads - the fads you wished would stay forever (or never come back)
•  Collection from the Ainu and the Amur Area - artifacts and photos from Barathosi Balogh Benedek's 1908 and 1914 expedition (in English and Hungarian)
•  Dazhdbog's Grandsons - The server contains different materials relevant to Russia. It basically contains cultural, historical things, and I desire to keep this spirit in a future. You will find images, music, poetry here
•  Ethnographic Museum of Trentino - folklife and folk crafts; alpine anthropology seminar; education unit, books, videos, and itineraries; (in Italian and English)
•  EXPO WWW Exhibit Organization - Includes vatican, soviet archive, 1492, and dead sea scrolls
•  Hanford Mills Museum - one of the area's oldest historic operational sawmill, gristmill and woodworking shops
•  Heritage Map Museum - A full array of services are available for the collector, educator and traveller
•  High Desert Museum
•  Yahoo! Houdini Museum
•  Laurel and Hardy Museum
•  MacLachlin Woodworking Museum
•  Yahoo! Manchester Museum
•  Milton's Cottage
•  MSU Vincent Voice Library Exhibit
•  Museum of Questionable Medical Devices - devious displays of quackery, fraud, deceit and deception
•  Museum of Timepieces and Mechanical Music (MUMM) - includes pictures from the collection of historic timepieces and mechanical music
•  Yahoo! Museum of Tolerance
•  Museum of Victoria - natural science, human studies, science and technology, and the National Wool Museum
•  National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM) - a collection of Civil Rights artifacts including Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches and replicas of civil rights monuments
•  National Museum of the American Indian
•  National Signs of the Times Museum - virtual exhibition designed to inform and educate about the history of the sign industry and its contribution to commerce and the American landscape
•  Newseum - takes visitors behind the scenes to see the past, present and future of news
•  Peabody Essex Museum - collections of art and history since 1799
•  Peace Museum - presents exhibits designed motivate individuals to achieve creative solutions to the problem of violence
•  Petaluma Wildlife and Natural Science Museum - student-run non-profit museum with a saltwater tidepool along with taxidermied and live animal displays
•  Prehispanic Cultures Museum
•  Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum - houses several Egyptian-style buildings in a park-like setting featuring exotic plants and the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in the western US
•  Shrine to Music Museum - Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments. The collections include more than 6,000 American, European, and ethnographic musical instruments
•  South Carolina State Museum - experience the Palmetto State from the mountains to the sea
•  U.S. Border Patrol Museum - explore the history and operations of the agency
•  Valentine - Richmond, VA - offering major changing exhibitions which focus on American urban and social history, costumes, decorative arts and architecture
•  Whitby Museum - Edwardian / Victorian museum which is over 175 years old and contains over 20 collections
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museums by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & the Middle East
•  Australia & Oceania
•  Europe
•  North America (USA) & Central America
•  South America

•  Egyptian Museum in Cairo

• Museums in Oman

•  Kabul Museum - virtual collection representing the museum that was bombed and looted in the 1990s. Features images of ancient antiquities from several cultures which the museum housed.
  •  Museum Under Siege - about the destruction and plunder of the National Museum in Darulaman, near Kabul. Includes a list of stolen or imperiled artifacts and map of archaeological sites in Afghanistan
  •  Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage - newsletter dealing with the 1990s events at Kabul Museum
  •  Enemies of the Afghan Heritage - series of articles describing the destruction of ancient statues as well as the pillage of the Kabul Museum. From the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

•  Bahrain National Museum - offers exhibits exploring the art, history, culture, and natural history of the island. Other resources include archaeological site information and cultural programs

•  Fukuyama Auto & Clock Museum (Japan) - mainly exhibits classic cars and clocks. Other exhibits include wax figures, cameras, and music boxes

•  Moscow Kremlin Museum - site offers the history, covers the museums of the Moscow Kremlin, the excursion service, gift-shops and more
•  Virtual Russia

•  Australian Museums On Line
•  Powerhouse Museum - exhibitions covering science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian social history
•  National Museum of Australia
•  Queensland Museum - a virtual visit to Queensland's museum of natural environment and cultural heritage

•  Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

•  Danish Telephone Museum - Danish telephones through time. The history of the telephone

•  Jyväskylä University Museum - documents, investigates and transmits information related both to the history of the university of Jyväskylä and to the vegetation and creatures of the Finnish nature

•  Roman Open-Air Museum in Hechingen-Stein, Germany

•  Museum of Popular Instruments - collection of Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present day
•  List of Museums (according to subject)

•  Museum of the City of Belgrade

•  De MuseumServer - Dutch museums on the Internet - includes an interface to WWW-museums worldwide, virtual exhibitions, branch organizations and other museum-related services

•  National Museum of Slovenia/Narodni Muzej - departments of archaeology, history and applied arts, drawings and graphics, numismatic cabinet and a library

•  British Lawnmower Museum - unique collection of over 100 restored vintage lawnmowers spanning 120 years
•  British Museum - site offers exhibit and collection highlights and background information on the museum
•  Cadbury World
•  Cowper and Newton Museum - occupies Orchard House in Olney, where William Cowper (1731-1800) wrote most of his greatest works
•  Geffrye Museum - English domestic interiors, with exhibits dating back over 500 years, displayed in old almshouses in Shoreditch, East London
•  Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
•  Museum of Scotland
•  Museums Week - news and information about the 800 participating museums and galleries throughout the United Kingdom
•  Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum

•  Yahoo! U.S. States

•  Yahoo! Canadian Museum of Civilization

•  Alabama Iron and Steel Museum

•  Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium - collections total over 160,000 accessioned objects, from natural history and ethnography to local and regional history

•  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
•  Pueblo Grande Museum - in Phoenix

•  Arkansas Museum of Discovery - explore science and technology, history, health, nature, world cultures and more

•  Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia - in Burlingame; displays an example of every Pez candy dispenser ever made (in 55 years of production!); over 600 unique cartoon character heads

•  Library of Congress Exhibits
•  Yahoo! Smithsonian Institution
•  Smithsonian - events

•  Fort Museum - The Fort is a historical replica setting of the original settlement which established the city of Fort Dodge by the Dragoons. Walk through the Fort's gates and go back in time as you see displays depicting items from the 1800's through the early 1900's inside. Take a walk down Main Street to visualize how the daily lives of the settlers occurred with unique store settings.

•  Kentucky Museum

•  Oklahoma Museum of Higher Education in Historic Old Central - in Stillwater
•  Sheerar Museum - in Stillwater
•  Washington Irving Trail Museum - in Stillwater

•  Texas Association of Museums
•  Museum of Texas Tech University

•  Mount Vernon - Historic home and gardens of first United States president, George Washington. Travel guide, events and pictures of the colonial Virginia attraction
•  Museum of the Confederacy - Richmond, VA - a private, nonprofit institution that maintains the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of military, political and domestic artifacts and art associated with the period of the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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directories

•  Museums Guide - features links to museums in Brazil, as well as the world
•  Archives & Museum Informatics - specialists in strategic use of technology in cultural heritage; organize conferences and publish
•  Berkeley Subway - a guide to art, history, culture, and science museums
•  Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources - links to museums all over the world
•  Kultur Online - guide to online-museums and virtual galleries, with discussion forum, amusing WWW observations and more (in German)
•  Lost Museum of Sciences
•  Museum Computer Network - nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies; extensive links to museum WWW sites
•  Museum Professional - A starting point for accessing online resources in the Museum Field
•  Museums - WWW Virtual Library
•  Museums Of Long Island [liglobal] - local links and urls to art, science, history, and collections
•  SunSITE Multimedia Exhibits
•  University of California, Berkeley Museum Informatics Project
•  Watch and Clock Museums - global listing of hundreds of websites describing watch and clock and timekeeping (horological) museums

•  Quest Innovations & Research - Quest innovations is dedicated to bringing people together that wish to discuss science and invention and how it has effected the world around us. We also discuss environmental issues like global warming, conservation and lost forgotten discoveries.

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last edited Saturday, March 29, 2008