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Deutscher Museumsbund e.V.:
Naturwissenschaftliche Museen (in German).
The Group for Natural History Museums represents the specific interests of Natural History Museums and museums with collections on nature in the German Museums Association. Note especially:
! Natural Science Museums in Germany with their own website (in German).

SYNTHESYS.
SYNTHESYS is a European Commission - funded project, creating an integrated European infrastructure for natural history collections.
! Access:
SYNTHESYS funding is available to allow scientists based in European Member and Associated States to undertake short visits to utilize the collections, staff expertise, and analytical facilities at one of the 21 partner institutions for the purposes of their research. A core element is to provide funded researcher visits (Access) to the 390,000,000 specimens housed by SYNTHESYS institutions.
! Virtual Access:
For the first time in the SYNTHESYS programme, users will be able to request virtual access to collections. Participating institutions will digitise collections according to community demand and data will be made openly available.

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
List of science museums.
! Category:Geology museums.
! Category:Natural history museums
! List of natural history museums.
Liste naturhistorischer Museen.

Dinosaur Museum Aathal, Switzerland.
Royal Terrell Museum, Alberta, Canada.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico, See also:
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Web-based Paleo-database Home Page. Snapshot provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
Naturkundemuseum Bamberg, Germany.
Naturhistorischen Museum Basel, Switzerland
Urweltmuseum Oberfranken, Bayreuth
The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley. Worth checking out: Beth Schachter, HMS Beagle, Windows into Paleontology. Annotated links about Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology, from Beagle Site Review, Issue 39.
Naturhistorisches Forschungsinstitut, Museum für Naturkunde, Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.See also:
Gretchen Vogel, Science magazine: Berlin's Scientific Treasure House Shakes Off the Dust. Science, Vol 305, Issue 5680, 35-37; 2004. After decades in suspended animation, the Museum für Naturkunde has adopted 21st century methods in a campaign to recapture its former glory.

Museum of Natural History, Mineralogy and Petrology, Bern.
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum, Germany.
Goldfuß-Museum, Bonn Germany.
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Geología y Paleontología, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museum of Natural History Chemnitz, Germany.
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile
Geomuseum Clausthal , Germany.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland OH.
Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany.
Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden Germany.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Canada.
See also: Introduction to the Special Issue commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, with a summary of the museum´s early history and its research contributions. By J.D. Gardner et al. (2015). In PDF, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Review of Fossil Collections in Scotland Highlands and Islands. In PDF.
Review of Fossil Collections in Scotland. In PDF.