Museums and Zoos

The Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

The Exploratorium in San Francisco houses a collection of 650 interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art, and human perception. Its online museum contains information about, science, nature, art, and technology. In the Learning Studio section users will find virtual exhibits and experiments aimed at students and teachers.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum

http://sln.fi.edu/

The Franklin Institute Science Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, brings its exhibits and resources right to your desktop. Users will find virtual exhibits and a hotlist of pointers to educational resources found on the Internet. This site includes links to science news, activities, a publications library, science programs, and demonstrations. Users can read the InQuiry Almanack, a monthly online magazine that contains links to Internet educational resources, or access the World Wide Web Workbook to learn the basic skills for exploring the Web.

Hands On Children's Museum

http://www.wln.com/~deltapac/hocm.html

The Hands On Children's Museum of Olympia, Washington, is aimed at kids ages 10 and up. The content of this site varies with the theme of the month. For example, during one month, the Online Museum's theme was the ocean; authors collected more than twenty Internet sites that had to do with aquatic life and marine biology.

National Air and Space Museum

http://www.nasm.edu/

The National Air and Space Museum Web site provides an introduction to the Smithsonian Institution's popular museum in Washington, D.C. This site features information and photographs, such as those from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, which receives Earth observation photography from every space shuttle mission.

Welcome to the National Zoo

http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/zoo/homepage/nzphome.htm

This site has some of the best educational materials and games related to animals that you'll find on the World Wide Web. It contains information about the animals, plants, people, and programs of the National Zoo, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. In the National Zoo Cinema section, you can see movies on gorillas, orangutans, Komodo dragons, and some small mammals.

Smithsonian Institution

http://www.si.edu/

The Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust of the United States that includes a complex of 16 museums and galleries housing a total of 140 million artifacts, and the National Zoo. The Smithsonian is dedicated to public research and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history, and it serves as a center for numerous research facilities in the United States and abroad. This site includes a map of the National Mall, lists of exhibits, a calendar of events, information about Smithsonian Magazine and Radio Smithsonian, links to discussion groups, an electronic shopping mart, the Smithsonian Encyclopedia, and a list of frequently asked questions.

ZooNet

http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/

The goal of ZooNet is to make information available about every zoo in the world. This site provides an extensive list of links to zoos around the world and promotes the authoring of zoo pages.

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