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Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia. A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits.
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney; Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston; Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugarland, Sugarland; John C. Freeman Weather Museum, Houston; John E. Conner Museum, Kingsville; Mayborn Museum Complex, Waco; Moody Gardens, Galveston; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a municipal natural history and science museum in Denver, Colorado. It is a resource for informal science education in the Rocky Mountain region. A variety of exhibitions, programs, and activities help museum visitors learn about the natural history of Colorado, Earth, and the universe.
Below is a list of science museums all over the world. See Science museum for definitions. Europe. Austria. Ars Electronica Center, Linz;
The Science Museum's Center for Research and Collections staff maintain a collection of over 1.7 million artifacts, objects, and specimens and conduct research in biology, paleontology, anthropology, water quality, and climate change. They also conduct outreach with museum visitors, school groups, fellow researchers, and the general public.
In addition, departments or art classifications within the collection or museum may reserve sections of numbers. For example, objects identified by the numbers 11.000 through 11.999 may indicate objects obtained by the museum in 1911; the first 300 numbers might be used to indicate American art, while the next fifty (11.301–350) might be used ...
Michigan Science Center. The Michigan Science Center (MiSci) is a Smithsonian-affiliate science museum in Detroit, Michigan.The mission of the Michigan Science Center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in a creative, dynamic learning environment.