Best Museums Sites

America's national educational facility with 19 museums, 9 research centers and over 140 affiliate museums around the world.

The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington DC — offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. After opening to rave reviews the Newseum has become one of Washingt...

London contemporary art gallery. The Saatchi Gallery presents The Triumph of Painting. USA Today artists Mark Grotjahn, Mark Bradford, Jenny Saville, Florian Maier-Aichen, Martin Kippenberger . New American Art.

Tate is a family of four art galleries housing the UK's collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art.

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.

Institution for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts. Includes a visitor's guide, collection details, programs, online ticket sales, hours, and directions to the location in New York City.

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Includes Natural History Museum, Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium all in one location. Natural History Museum is one of the world's top 10 systematic biology institutes with major research collections.

The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world's greatest museum of art and design

Website of the Science Museum in South Kensington, London

Australian public museum featuring exhibitions, programs and research spanning the fields of science, technology, industry, design, decorative arts and social history. Located in Sydney.

Yad Vashem's task is to perpetuate the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations so that the world never forgets the horrors and cruelty of the Holocaust. Its principal missions are commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination and publication of...

Features a revolving schedule of Imax films, temporary exhibitions and planetarium shows. Includes a visitor's guide, membership details, volunteer opportunities and educator tools. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Located in Chicago, with educational programs and exhibits and a searchable database of television, radio, commercial and Chicago news archives.

Visit the Virtual Museum of Canada and discover online cultural content. Visitez le Musée Virtuel de Canada et découvrez son contenu culturel en ligne.

The official site provides a virtual tour and history of the museum buildings: the Baroque Winter Palace (1754-1762) designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and the Neo-Classical Small Hermitage and Large Hermitage.