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The museums in this list are categorized by country/continent.

Afghanistan -  Africa - Algeria - Antarctica - Argentina - Australia - Austria
Azerbaijan - Bahrain - Belgium - Bolivia - Brazil - Brunei - Bulgaria - Canada
Cayman Islands - Chile - China - Colombia - Costa Rica - Croatia - Cuba
Czech Republic - Denmark - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Egypt
El Salvador - Estonia - Fiji - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Guatemala
Honduras - Hong Kong - Hungary - Iceland - India - Ireland - Israel - Italy
Japan - Kenya - Korea (Republic of) - Kuwait - Latin America - Lebanon
Lithuania - Luxembourg - Macao - Mexico - Malaysia - Morocco - Namibia
Netherlands - New Zealand - Nicaragua - Norway - Panama - Paraguay
Peru - Poland - Portugal - Puerto Rico - Romania - Russia - Singapore
Slovakia - Slovenia - South Africa - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Taiwan
Thailand - Turkey - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom
United States of America - Uruguay - Vatican City - Venezuela - Yemen

Afghanistan

• Kabul Museum.

Antarctica

• McMurdo Historical Society Virtual Museum, McMurdo Station. Antarctic history.

Australia

• ANU Classics Department Museum, Australian National University, Canberra. Part of ArtServe - 27,000 images of art and architecture, mainly from the Mediterranean area.
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
• Australian Museum, Sydney.
• Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
• La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne.
• Macleay Museum, Sydney. Natural history collection.
• Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. Natural and cultural heritage collections at several sites.
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Fine art.
• National Motorcycle Museum, Mitchell, Canberra.
• National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
• Physics Museum, University of Queensland.
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian social history. Australia's largest museum.
• Queensland Museum, University of Queensland.
• Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Point Cook, Victoria.
• Sydney Jewish Museum. The Holocaust and Australian Jewish history, including related links.
• Victorian Racing Museum, Caulfield, Victoria. Horse racing.
• Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth.
• Western Australian Museum, Perth.

   

• Australian Museums On Line
• Australian University Museums Online 
• Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS).
• Museums and Collections at Macquarie University.
• Victoria museums.

Belgium

• Félicien Rops Museum, Namur. Covers the work of the artist F. Rops (1833-1898).
• Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance.
• Musée d'Art Religieux et d'Art Mosan (MARAM), Liège. (In French.)
• Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Photography museum. (In French.)
• Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve, Université catholique de Louvain. 
• Museum of Natural Sciences, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, Brussels. (Also in French and Dutch.)
• Royal Museum of the Army and Military History. (In Dutch, French and English soon.)

   

• Brussels museums.
• Namur museums.

Brunei

• Royal Brunei Museum

Bulgaria

• National Museum of History, Sofia. Includes a searchable database of over 300 items.
• University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.

   

• Museum towns.
• Sofia museums.

China

• Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, Henan Province. (In Chinese and English.)

   

• Beijing museums (see also here)

  Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution" and China '89.

Croatia

• Archeological Museum, Zagreb.
• Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb. Part of the Art Plus site.

Czech Republic

• Czech Pharmaceutical Museum.
• Moravian Museum, Brno. Archaeology, history, numismatics, literature, music, theatre, geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and entomology. (In Czech and English.)
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
• National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.
• National Museum, Prague. 
• National Technical Museum, Prague.

   

• Galleries contacts and addresses.
• Prague. See also Museums and Galleries Image Tour.
• Association of Czech, Moravian ana Silesian Museums (AMG). Includes a directory of Czech museums and galleries, and a calendar of exhibitions. 

Denmark

• Danish Museum of Electricity. 
• Immigrantmuseet, Stavnsholtvej. (In Danish.)
• Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund.
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting. 
• Museet på Koldinghus, Koldinghus. 
• Museums of Natural History, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. Botany, geology and zoology. Includes searchable botanical specimen database. (25,000 records.)
• Naturhistorisk Museum, Århus. Natural history. 
• National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
• North Sea Museum. (Nordsømuseet, in Danish.)
• Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Archeological (especially Egyptian) artifacts, Impressionist and other paintings.
• Skive Art Museum.
• Steno Museum, University of Aarhus, Århus.  History of science and medicine.
• Struer Museum. History of the town.
• Telephone Museum, Hellerup. 

• Cultural institutions (including many museums) under the Ministry of Culture, from Kulturnet Danmark.
• Storstrøm museums.

Estonia

• Estonian Literary Museum.
• Estonian Maritime Museum (Meremuuseum), Tallinn.
• Estonian National Museum, Tartu.
• Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn. (In Estonian.)
• Museum of Viljandi.

• Museum search in Estonia.
• Museums list. (In Estonian.)
• Tallinn museums. (In Estonian.)

Fiji

• Fiji Museum.

Finland

• Aine Art Museum, Tornio. Finnish visual arts from 1814.
• Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä. Specializes in architecture.
• Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
• Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. 
• Helsinki City Art Museum. Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city.
•  Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
• Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä. Cultural history.
• The Museumship Pommern, Âland. 1903 four-masted steel-bark ship from Glasgow, Scotland.
• The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
• Spy Museum, Tampere.

   

• Finnish museums information including a alphabetical list of museums (also ordered by location and by type) from the Finnish Museums Association.
• Nordic museum links (Finland).
• Tampere.

France

• Château de Versailles, near Paris.
• Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris.
• Electropolis, Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy.
• French Ministry of Culture. See:
  • The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
  • Documentation, including several databases:
    • Joconde database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.
    • MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des musées de France (DMF).
    • Muséofile - national database of French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.).
  • Archaeological discovery of a decorated Palaeolithic cave near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (announced 17 January 1995). An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of damage.
  • The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon. Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies.
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne.
• The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. 
• Museum of Asiatic Art, Nice.
• Musée des arts et métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers.
• Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.
• Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor.
• Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
• Musée des télécommunications: Le Radome, Pleumeur-Bodou.
• Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence.
• Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris.
• Videomuseum. (In English soon - September 1997.)

   

• Art and culture - major French museums guide.
• Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.
• Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
• Maritime museums.
• Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

Greece

• The Acropolis Museum, Athens. Situated on the Acropolis.
• Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Houses the Alexander, WWW Server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
• National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
• Rhodes Jewish Museum, Rhodes.
• Technical Museum of Thessaloniki.
• WebAcropol, Athens. A virtual tour of the Acropolis.

   

• Cultural map of Greece and list of museums.
• Hellenic Culture including Macedonia and Thrace.
• Hellenic Museums by type. Comprehensive collection of images, etc.
• Athens.
• Thessaloniki.

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Museum of Art.
• Hong Kong Museum of History.
• Hong Kong Science Museum.
• Hong Kong Space Museum.

   

• Museums listed by the Hong Kong Tourist Association

Iceland

• Hafnarfjörður Museum, Hafnarfjörður.
• House of Merchants Folk Museum,
• National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík.
• National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík.

   

• Museums and libraries in Reykjavík.

India

• Indian Museum (unofficial), Calcutta.
• National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
• Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay.
• Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi.

   

• Indian museums.
• Forts and palaces including the Taj Mahal.

Ireland

• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
• Dungarvan Museum, Waterford.
• The Garda Museum, Dublin Castle. Museum of Ireland's national police force.
• Guinness Hopstore, Dublin. Includes a Transport Museum section.
• Hunt Museum, University of Limerick. Art and antiquities.
• National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
• National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

Israel

• Babylonian Jewry Museum, Or-Yehuda. History of the Jews of Babylon.
• Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv. Includes a virtual exhibition.
• Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem.
• Edith and Rubin Hecht Museum, Haifa University. Archaeology and paintings.
• Ghetto Fighters' House Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Western Galilee.
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Includes Dead Sea Scrolls - Shrine of the Book, Judaica and Jewish ethnography, fine art, Archaeological Museum ­ Rockefeller, East Jerusalem Art Center ­ Paley, and Ticho House.
• Israel National Museum of Science, Daniel and Matilde Recanati Center, Haifa.
• Jerusalem Mosaic. Information, exhibits and images about Jerusalem.
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Kuwait

• Tareq Rajab Museum, Hawelli.

Lebanon

• The Museum and Library of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
• The National Museum, Beirut.

   

• Museums and archeology

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius.
• National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius.

Macao

• Macao Museum of Art.
• The Museum of Macau, opened in 1998 in the old fortress.

Malaysia

• Maritime Archaeology Museum, Malacca.

Netherlands

• 7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.
• Anne Frank House, Amsterdam.
• Virtual Anne Frank House.
• Centraal Museum Utrecht. The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands, including historical works of art and the Rietveld Schröder house (1924).
• Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
• Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Art collection including Mondrian and Escher.
• Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven. Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923).
• Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University. Archectural Guide and Gallery.
• Limburgs Museum, Limburg. Includes multimedia using RealAudio.
• Museon, The Hague. Science and natural history: geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology physics and technology, ethnology.
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine.
• Museum Gevangenpoort, The Hague.
• National Museum of Coins and Medals, Leiden.
• National Museum of Ethnography, Leiden.
• Natural History Museum, Maastricht. 
• Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg. Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design.
• Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam.
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
• The Software Museum, Amsterdam. Early computer software disk directory listings.
• Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country. Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave.
• Technical Museum of the University of Delft.
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Fossils and minerals, scientific instruments, medals and coins, paintings, prints and drawings. Oldest public museum and the first virtual museum in the country.
• University Museum, Utrecht.
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art.
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Mainly artworks by Vincent Van Gogh.
• Zuiderzeemuseum.

   

• Amsterdam museums.
• Eindhoven museums.
• Museums in the Netherlands.
• Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums.
• North Holland museums.
• Museumboot, Amsterdam. Guided boat tour around major museums.

New Zealand

• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
• Auckland WebMuseum. Online museum presenting Maori culture.
• Howick Historical Village, Pakuranga, Auckland. A living museum recreating a British immigrant village of the Fencible settlement.
• Matakohe Kauri Museum, Northland. Story of the Kauri tree, its timber and its gum.
• National Maritime Museum, Auckland.
• New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, Wanaka Airport. Includes links to other aviation museums on the Web.
• Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex, Christchurch.
• Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington. Art, history, Maori culture and the natural environment. A new museum opened in 1998.

Norway

• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
• Munch Museum, Oslo. Official museum of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
• Museums of Natural History, Tøyen, Oslo.
• Northern Lights Planetarium.
• Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
• Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo.
• Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo.
• Tromsø Museum.

Poland

• Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
• The Distillery Museum, Lancut. Winner of the European Museum of the Year Award.
• Museum of Art, Lodz.
• Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium, Gdynia. 
• Saltmine "Wieliczka", Museum of Cracow salt-works, Wieliczka.
• Wawelu Royal Castle, Cracow. 

   

• Museums, Lublin. (Also in Polish.)

Singapore

• Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum. Singaporean artist whose works incorporate images, sculptures, poetry and music. 
• National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board. Includes Asia Civilisations Museum, Singapore History Museum and Singapore Art Museum. See also shop.
• National University of Singapore museums. Includes the Lee Kong Chian Art Museum of Chinese Art and the Ng Eng Teng Gallery of sculpture and art.
• Singapore Philatelic Museum. Stamps.

Slovakia

• Povazske Museum, Zilina. History of the Slovak tinker's trade. 
• Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava. Painting, sculpture, drawing, graphic art, applied art, industrial design, photography, naive art. (In Slovak.)
• Slovak National Museum, Bratislava. 
• Slovak museums.

Slovenia

• Museum of Modern History, Ljubljana. 
• National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana. Archaeology, history, applied arts, drawings and graphics.
• Technical Museum of Slovenia, Bistra, Borovnica. Traffic, agriculture, textile, electricity, forestry, wood processing, hunting, fishing.

Taiwan

• National Palace Museum. 
• The World Religions Museum, Taipei.

Thailand

• Bank of Thailand Museum.
• Rama IX Art Museum Foundation, Bangkok.

Turkey

• Interactive Museum of Turkey.
• Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture.
• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul. History and development of industry.
• Topkapi Palace Museum.

   

• Istanbul museums.

United Arab Emirates

• Ajman Museum, Ajman. Historic fortress.
• Dubai Museum. Housed in Al-Fahidi Fort, thought to be Dubai's oldest building.
• Sharjah Archaeological Museum.

Vatican City

• Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani). See also Christus Rex virtual exhibits containing many images of the Vatican City, Sistine Chapel and Raphael Stanzas and Loggias. (Unofficial.)

Yemen

• National Museum, Sana'a.

Here are some links to other interesting centers

	The High-Tech Productions.com Science & Technology Center
	Online Virtual Reference Library
	Museums & Art Centers of the USA
	Museums from around the World
	NASA Information and Web Site Links