Museums · Curated list
American Museum of Natural History, Deutsches Museum, Natural History Museum, London and 22 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the museum's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Natural history museum in Manhattan, New York
Usually shortened to AMNH, a natural history museum on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the road from Central Park, it is a complex of 21 linked buildings with 45 permanent exhibition halls, as well as a library and a planetarium.
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World's largest museum of science and technology
The largest museum of science and technology in the world, in Munich, Germany, showing some 125,000 objects from 50 fields of science and technology to about 1.5 million visitors a year.
Wikidata · Photo: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Museum in South Kensington, London
A London museum showing a huge range of specimens from many branches of natural history. It is one of three big museums along Exhibition Road in South Kensington, with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum.
Wikidata · Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Museum in Rouen, France
A museum of the history of the port of Rouen, one of France's greatest ports. It opened in 1999, at the time of the Rouen Armada, a gathering of tall ships held every five years.
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Industrial design museum in Paris
A museum of industrial design in Paris that holds the collections of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, founded in 1794 to keep and preserve inventions and scientific instruments.
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Natural history museum in Washington, DC
Usually shortened to NMNH, a natural history museum run by the Smithsonian Institution on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. Entry is free, and it opens 364 days a year.
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Museum in Kensington, London
One of London's big museums and tourist draws, on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, founded in 1857; in 2025 it had 2,817,852 visitors.
Wikidata · Photo: Shadowssettle, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Museum in Vienna, Austria
A large museum of natural history in Vienna, Austria.
Wikidata · Photo: Stb1er (Dario Premm), CC BY-SA 4.0
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Museum in Paris, France
The national natural history museum of France, which is also a grand établissement of higher education belonging to Sorbonne University. Its main site, with four galleries, is in Paris, in the Jardin des Plantes on the Seine's left bank.
Wikidata · Photo: Ken and Nyetta, CC BY 2.0
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Maritime museum in Djurgården, Sweden
A maritime museum on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It shows the Vasa, a warship with 64 guns that sank on her first voyage in 1628: the only almost wholly intact ship of the 17th century ever raised.
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Science museum in Paris, France
Also called simply CSI, a large European science museum in Paris, France, in the Parc de la Villette. It is one of about three dozen French Cultural Centers of Science, Technology and Industry (CCSTI), which promote science and scientific culture.
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Museum in Washington, D.C.
Usually shortened to NASM, the Smithsonian Institution's museum of space exploration and human flight, in Washington, D.C., United States.
Wikidata · Photo: David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Usually shortened to ROM, a museum of natural history, world culture and art in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the largest museum in Canada and one of the biggest in North America.
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Museum in London, United Kingdom
A museum of the sea in Greenwich, London, usually shortened to NMM, belonging to Royal Museums Greenwich, the group of museums inside the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
Wikidata · Photo: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aviation museum in Le Bourget, France
A French museum of air and space, at the south-eastern edge of Paris–Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, in the commune of Le Bourget. It opened in 1919, on a proposal by Albert Caquot (1881–1976), the famous aeronautical engineer.
Wikidata · Photo: The original uploader was Stahlkocher at German Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0
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Natural history museum in Berlin, Germany
A natural history museum in Berlin, Germany, showing a huge range of specimens from many branches of natural history; in this field it is one of Germany's three major museums, with Museum Koenig in Bonn and Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt.
Wikidata · Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
A natural history museum in Stockholm, one of Sweden's two major museums of natural history; the other is in Gothenburg.
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Natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois
A natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, run as a private–public partnership and one of the largest of its kind in the world. It is known for the size and quality of its scientific and educational programmes and for its large collections of scientific specimens and artefacts.
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Railway museum in Baku
A museum of railways in Baku, Azerbaijan, which first opened its doors in 2019.
Wikidata · Photo: Simplellali, CC0
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Museum in Berlin, Germany
A museum of science and technology in Berlin, Germany, with a large collection of historic technical objects. It first concentrated on rail transport, but now also shows many kinds of industrial technology.
Wikidata · Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Museum in Mountain View, California
Usually shortened to CHM, a museum of computing in Mountain View, California. It tells, with objects, the story of the Information Age and of Silicon Valley, and looks at the computing revolution and how it has changed society.
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Science museum in Belgrade, Serbia
A science museum in Belgrade, Serbia, honouring and showing the life and work of Nikola Tesla, whose final resting place it also is.
Wikidata · Photo: Museum_of_Nikola_Tesla,_Belgrade,_Serbia.JPG : Rburg87 derivative work: Begoon, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Corporate museum
BMW's corporate museum of the company's history, founded in 1973, soon after the opening of the 1972 Summer Olympics. It was renovated from 2004 to 2008, while BMW Welt was being built directly opposite.
Wikidata · Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Botanical garden and museum in Berlin, Germany
A botanical garden in the Lichterfelde district of Berlin's Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough, in Germany. Built between 1897 and 1910 under the direction of the architect Adolf Engler, it covers 42 hectares [ha] and has more than 20,000 plant species.
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1840s British steamship, museum ship
A museum ship, once a passenger steamship that was advanced for its day. From 1845 to 1853 it was the biggest passenger ship in the world; Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) designed it for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic route between New York City and Bristol.
Wikidata · Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0
Every Wikidata item that is a science museum or a natural history museum, and whose one-line description on Wikidata names a museum in its first clause, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 25 are shown.
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