List of natural history museums in the United States

Alabama

Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa

Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston

Auburn University Museum of Natural History, Auburn

Cook's Natural Science Museum, Decatur

Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island

Mann Wildlife Learning Museum, Montgomery

McWane Science Center, Birmingham

Southern Environmental Center, Birmingham

Weeks Bay Interpretive Center, Fairhope

Alaska

Alaska Museum of Science and Nature, Anchorage

Alaska State Centennial Museum, Juneau

University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks

Pratt Museum, Homer

Arizona

Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, Phoenix

Arizona Museum of Natural History, Mesa

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson

Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe

International Wildlife Museum, Tucson

Meteor Crater, Winslow

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff

Petrified Forest National Park, Navajo County

University of Arizona Mineral Museum, Tucson

Arkansas

Turner Neal Museum of Natural History, Monticello

California

Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, Davis

Bowers Museum, Santa Ana

Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, Bakersfield

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

California Mining and Mineral Museum, Mariposa

Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside, Riverside

Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley

Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society Museum, Fallbrook

Gateway Science Museum, Chico

Great Valley Museum of Natural History, Modesto

Hi-Desert Nature Museum, Yucca Valley

Human Evolution Research Center, UC Berkeley

Humboldt State University Natural History Museum, Arcata

Humboldt State University Wildlife Museum, Arcata

Imperial Valley College Desert Museum, Ocotillo

John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center, Orange County

Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest

Morro Bay State Park Museum of Natural History, Morro Bay

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley

Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, Davis

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove

Page Museum - La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles

Petaluma Wildlife and Natural Science Museum, Petaluma

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Point Vicente Interpretive Center, Rancho Palos Verdes

Randall Museum, Corona Heights Park, San Francisco

San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz

Sierra College Natural History Museum, Rocklin

Western Science Center, Hemet

University of California Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley

University and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley

World Museum of Natural History, La Sierra University, Riverside

Colorado

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver

Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park

May Natural History Museum of the Tropics, Colorado Springs

Morrison Natural History Museum, Morrison

Museum of Western Colorado's Dinosaur Journey Museum, Fruita

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder

The Wildlife Experience, Parker

Connecticut

Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich

Connecticut Audubon Society Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary, Fairfield

Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Storrs

Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, New Haven

Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford

Delaware

Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington

University of Delaware Mineralogical Museum, Newark

District of Columbia

National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall, Washington, D.C.

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Florida

Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel

Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville

South Florida Museum, Bradenton

Georgia

Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta

Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens

Georgia Southern University Museum, Statesboro

Tellus Museum, Cartersville

Hawai'i

Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu

Dinosaurs in Hawaii, Honolulu Community College, Honolulu

Koke'e Natural History Museum, Kauai

Idaho

Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello

Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, at College of Idaho in Caldwell.

Illinois

Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford

Elgin Public Museum, Elgin

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, Benedictine University, Lisle

Illinois State Museum, Springfield

Midwest Museum of Natural History, Sycamore

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago

Indiana

Sumner B. Sheets Museum of Wildlife and Marine Exhibits, Huntington

Iowa

Battle Hill Museum of Natural History, Battle Creek

Museum of Natural History, University of Iowa

Putnam Museum, Davenport

University Museum, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls

Kansas

Johnston Geology Museum, Emporia

Museum at Prairiefire, Overland Park

Pratt Education Center, Pratt

Schmidt Museum of Natural History, Emporia

Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays

University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence

Museum of World Treasures, Wichita

Kentucky

Cumberland Inn Museum - Henkelmann Life Science Collection, Williamsburg

Louisiana

Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium, Lafayette

Louisiana Museum of Natural History, Baton Rouge

Maine

George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, Bar Harbor

L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley

Maine State Museum, Augusta

Northern Maine Museum of Science, Presque Isle

The Nylander Museum, Caribou

Wilson Museum, Castine

Maryland

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

Massachusetts

Beneski Museum of Natural History, at Amherst College

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster

EcoTarium, Worcester

Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge

Marion Natural History Museum, Marion

Natural Science Museum in Hinchman House, Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket

Michigan

A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Houghton

Card Wildlife Education Center and Wildlife Museum, Big Rapids

Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural History, Mount Pleasant

Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills

Kingman Museum, Battle Creek

Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing

University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor

Minnesota

Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis

Mississippi

Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, Starkville

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Jackson

Missouri

Joplin Museum Complex, Joplin

Kansas City Museum, Kansas City

Maramec Museum at Maramec Spring Park, St. James

University of Missouri-Columbia Enns Entomology Museum, Columbia

Museum of Science and Natural History, run by the Academy of Science, St. Louis

Montana

Carter County Museum, Ekalaka

Makoshika Dinosaur Museum, Glendive

Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman

Phillips County Museum, Malta

Two Medicine Dinosaur Center, Bynum

Wildlife Museum of the West, Ennis

Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, Missoula

Nebraska

Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Hastings

Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park, Crawford

University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln

Nevada

Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, Las Vegas

New Hampshire

The Little Nature Museum at Gould Hill Orchards, Hopkinton

Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness

Woodman Institute, Dover

New Jersey

Morris Museum, Morristown

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

Newark Museum, Newark

Rutgers University Geology Museum, New Brunswick

New Mexico

American International Rattlesnake Museum, Albuquerque

Eastern New Mexico University Natural History Museum, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales

Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science, Las Cruces

Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum, Tucumcari

Miles Mineral Museum, Portales

Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Museum, Socorro

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque

Piedra Lumbre Education & Visitor Center, Abiquiú

Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, Abiquiú

New York

American Museum of Natural History, New York City

Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo

Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca

Dinosaur Walk Museum, Riverhead

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers

Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook

Museum of the Earth, Ithaca

Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, The WILD Center, Tupper Lake

New York State Museum, Albany

Niagara Science Museum, Niagara Falls

Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca

Pember Museum of Natural History, Granville

South Fork Natural History Museum, Bridgehampton, New York

Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Seaford

Trailside Museums and Zoo, Bear Mountain State Park

Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport

North Carolina

Aurora Fossil Museum, Aurora

Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington

Colburn Earth Science Museum, Asheville

McKinney Geology Teaching Museum, Boone

Museum of Coastal Carolina, Ocean Isle Beach

Museum of North Carolina Minerals, Spruce Pine

North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort

North Carolina Museum of Forestry, Whiteville

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

Onslow County Museum, Richlands

Rankin Museum of American Heritage, Ellerbe

Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia

North Dakota

Dakota Dinosaur Museum, Dickinson

Pioneer Trails Regional Museum, Bowman

Ohio

Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Dayton

Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, Cincinnati

Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland

Karl Limper Geology Museum, Oxford

Oklahoma

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman

The Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City

Oregon

High Desert Museum, Bend

Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Hillsboro

University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene

World Forestry Center, Portland

Pennsylvania

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh

Delaware County Institute of Science, Media

Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Galleryat Penn State, University Park

Everhart Museum, Scranton

Four Mills Barn, Ambler

Frost Entomological Museum, University Park

Insectarium, Philadelphia

Mütter Museum, Philadelphia

North Museum of Natural History and Science, Lancaster

Oakes Museum of Natural History, Mechanicsburg

Pymatuning Wildlife Learning Center, Linesville

State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

Reading Public Museum, West Reading

Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia

Rhode Island

Edna Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Rhode Island Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Providence

South Carolina

Bob Campbell Geology Museum, Clemson

Charleston Museum, Charleston

Clemson University Arthropod Collection, Clemson

Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island

McKissick Museum, Columbia

South Carolina State Museum, Columbia

South Dakota

The Journey Museum, Rapid City

The Mammoth Site Museum of Hot Springs, SD, Hot Springs

Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City

Tennessee

Frank H. McClung Museum, Knoxville

Gray Fossil Museum, Gray

Texas

Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, Bryan

Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, El Paso

El Campo Museum of Natural History, El Campo

Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney

Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston

John C. Freeman Weather Museum, Houston

Mayborn Museum Complex, Waco

Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas

Texas Memorial Museum, Austin

Natural Science Research Laboratory, and the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Utah

Box Elder Museum of Natural History, Brigham City

BYU Earth Science Museum, Provo

College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, Price

Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen

John Hutchings Museum of Natural History, Lehi

Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo

Museum of Moab, Moab

Museum of the San Rafael, Castle Dale

Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City

North American Museum of Ancient Life, Lehi

Paunsaugunt Wildlife Museum, Bryce

Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum, St. George

St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, St. George

The Dinosaur Museum, Blanding

Utah Field House of Natural History, Vernal

Weber State University Museum of Natural Science, Ogden

Vermont

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury

Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich

The Nature Museum at Grafton, Grafton

Perkins Geology Museum at the University of Vermont, Burlington

Southern Vermont Natural History Museum, Marlboro

Virginia

Hostetter Museum of Natural History, Suter Science Center, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg

James Madison University Mineral Museum, Harrisonburg

Museum of the Middle Appalachians, Saltville

Virginia Living Museum, Newport News

Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond

Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville

Virginia Tech Geosciences Museum, Blacksburg

Washington

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle

Charles R. Conner Museum, Washington State University, Pullman

Of Sea & Shore Museum, Port Gamble

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle

Slater Museum of Natural History, Tacoma

Stonerose Interpretive Center and Fossil Site, Republic

The Whale Museum, Friday Harbor

West Virginia

West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey's Museum of Geology and Natural History, Morgantown

West Virginia Natural History Museum, Morgantown

Wisconsin

Cable Natural History Museum, Cable

Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Museum of Natural History, Stevens Point

UW–Madison Geology Museum, Madison

Wyoming

Draper Museum of Natural History, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center, Dubois

Natural History Museum of Western Wyoming College, Rock Springs

Tate Geological Museum, Casper

University of Wyoming Geological Museum, Laramie

University of Wyoming Insect Museum, Laramie

Werner Wildlife Museum, Casper

Wyoming Dinosaur Center & Dig Sites Thermopolis