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| Science museum |
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National Air and Space Museum |
A science museum or a science centre 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....
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| Science Museum of Minnesota | ||||
| Carnegie Science Center | ||||
| Centre des Science de Montreal | ||||
| Museum of Science and Industry | ||||
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| Art museum | Cleveland Museum of Art | |||
| Saint Louis Art Museum | ||||
| Natural history museum | ||||
| Aerospace museum | German Museum of Technology | |||
| PAF Museum, Karachi | ||||
| Polish Aviation Museum | ||||
| Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space | ||||
| Modern Transportation Museum | ||||
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| Military / war museum | Canadian War Museum | |||
| Transport museum | ||||
| Archaeology museum | ||||
| Modern art museum | ||||
| Museum ship |
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A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, a use found mostly with the...
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| Decorative art museum | Rijksmuseum | |||
| Railroad museum | ||||
| Maritime museum |
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Peabody Essex Museum |
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ship and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of...
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| Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum of Rouen | ||||
| National museum | Museo Nazionale del Cinema | |||
| Biographical museum | Mwalimu Nyerere Museum Centre | |||
| Tribhuvan Museum | ||||
| Open air museum |
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An open air museum is a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of-doors. The first open air museums were established in Scandinavia towards the end of the nineteenth century, and the concept soon spread throughout Europe and North...
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| University museum |
A university museum is a museum or collection run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the university. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the...
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| Automobile museum | ||||
| Children's museum | The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis |
Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs that stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museum that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums...
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| Exploration Station | ||||
| Medical museum | ||||
| Sports museum | ||||
| Jewish museum | Judah L. Magnes Museum | |||
| Lesko Synagogue | ||||
| Prison museum | ||||
| Music museum | ||||
| Religious museum | ||||
| Holocaust museum | ||||
| Architecture museum | Fallingwater | |||
| The Octagon House | ||||
| Aviation museum | ||||
| Historic house museum |
Historic house museums are house that have been transformed into museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a variety of standards, including...
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| History museum | Museum of Sydney | |||
| Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal | ||||
| Northern Ostrobothnia museum | ||||
| Leelanau Historical Society and Museum | ||||
| The Boston Museum Project | ||||
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| Natural history museum | Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology | |||
| Geological Museum | ||||
| The Niagara Falls Museum | ||||
| South Australian Museum | ||||
| Natural History Museum of Basel | ||||
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