Life Science Museums






 
National History Museum London

This site is packed with great photos of the museum and its changing exhibits. Several sections offer quick science lessons in botany, entomology or paleontology. From mini-wasps to a giant sequoia, the NHM catalogs and researches our world. And there are many online exhibitions worth a visit: Endeavour experiment: a dramatic 3D reconstruction of Captain James Cook's sailing ship, Recreating dinosaurs: Museum scientists investigate the reality of extracting DNA from insects in amber, WORLDMAP: What does 'biodiversity' mean? How can it be measured? How can it be conserved efficiently?, The Cosmic Football: a very unusual micrometeorite - help to unravel its million-year-old history.

   
Smithsonian Natural History Web

Millions of artifacts! Categorized under anthropology, botany, mineral sciences and other disciplines, this site offers a lot of multimedia and descriptive texts. This site should please everyone from the interdisciplinary scholar interested in Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems to the little kid who loves dinosaurs: Have a virtual tour of fossile mammals and plants, the human evolution, life in the ancient seas - 570 million years ago, native cultures of the Americas, reptiles and amphibians, and and and....

 
   
 
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Some excerpts from the really huge number of online exhibitions, offered by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles: Anatomy, development and life cycles of beetles around the world - DNA research at the museum - The world's butterflies - Masters of the Ocean Realm: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises - Gems and minerals - An experimental QTVR of the Mammal Hall - Sharks Fact and Fantasy...

   
Hemp Museum (Berlin)

You won't be able to tell that this website has been written and arranged by two young students: professionally done, well designed, packed with thrilling information. Did you know that hemp is resistant against most pests, medically employed against epileptic fits and migraines and that Gutenberg printed a Bible on hemp paper? This and much more information (among others: History of hemp in the Orient, cultivation of the hemp plant, hemp as a drug, hemp medicine, legal information) is at your disposition, illustrated with numerous graphics.

 
   
 
Ocean Planet

Ocean planet is a museum of the sea, with a really huge number of images, photographs and texts on many subjects: the sea, nature, fish and fishing, deep-sea diving, coral reefs, "Orca the whale" and sharks, adventurers and discoverers. Ecological risks for our oceans are explained without moralizing undertone. One of the best websites about nature and science.

   
National Zoo Washington

The American National Zoo in Washington offers a lot of texts, photographs and games. Have a look at scientific reports on release programs for animals, amusing histories about feeding, many photographs of animals (for instance elephants in the Malaysian wilderness), online teaching programs for children and adolescents (puzzles, crosswords). A big hit: participate in the language training program for orangutans (already learning with computers) and learn words like "food," "open," "give" or "red"!

 
   
 
Museum of Natural History Stuttgart

The Museum of Natural History (Stuttgart) reveals its treasures here from permanent and special exhibitions. And it also shares a couple of tricks about museum work ("stuffing and canning" in the special exhibition). The pages sometimes offer too many images (newspaper items with scanned text for instance). However: the presentation is attractive, the pictures and animations stimulate curiosity and the texts are easy to read.

   


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