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Arthur Anderson: The Lost Museum of Sciences. A comprehensive index of science museum links throughout the world. See also: http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/museum/88/index.html

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz: Alphabetische Liste von geowissenschaftlichen Museen in Bayern. PDF file, in German.

Bavarian Natural History Collections (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, SNSB).

! University of California in Berkeley: Natural History Museums. A comprehensive list.

Jonathan Bowen, School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics (SCISM), South Bank University, London (The Virtual Library): Virtual Library museums pages. A distributed directory of on-line museums.
Provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany (situated at the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
Their strategies are improving the visibility and availability of the collections as well as to develop and integrate the collections as decentralised infrastructures for research, teaching and education, with due regard for their diversity and specific local characteristics – on an interdisciplinary and cross-site basis.
Note especially:
! News section (in German), with current notices of events, publications, funding offers and vacancies.
Worth checking out:
! Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen. The portal lists object-based scientific collections.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (DGG):
Museen - global (in German).

DeWiki.de - Wiki-Artikel Sammlung (in German): Geographie.
Liste deutscher Museen nach Themen, e.g.:
9.1 Botanik.
9.5 Geologie/Paläontologie.

GeoZentrum Nordbayern: Geological and palaeontological institutes and museums in Germany. A link directory, in German.

Icon (The Institute of Conservation).
Icon raises awareness of the cultural, social and economic value of caring for heritage and champions high standards of conservation. Please take notoice:
So you want to be a conservator? 10 traits you need to succeed.

Glen J. Kuban, North Royalton, OH: Kuban´s Guide to Natural History Museums on the Web. This site features one of the largest directories of natural history museums on the World Wide Web. Included are any museums or exhibits that feature displays on fossils, paleontology, and related subjects.

Rex Bing Hung Kwok, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales: Palaeontology. Go to: Palaeontological Collections in Museums, and Exhibits of Private Palaeontological Collections.

A. Maas, Section for Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Germany: Natural History Museums in Germany (in German). Snapshot taken by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Mark W. Maimone, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide. This page contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.

! Jim Mills, Mills Geological: Museums of Interest. An annotated link list especially of museums with petrified wood collections in the United States.

Museen in der Schweiz. Swiss Museums.

MuseumStuff.com (a product of Discovery Media, San Diego, California). Museumstuff.com is dedicated to creating a web based guide to museum related information. This information includes links to museum websites and virtual exhibits, educational and entertaining games and activities, and extensive learning resources concerning topics typically promoted through art, science and history museums.

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: Sciences de la Terre, Natural History Science Museums in France (in French). An index.
Archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Natural Science Collections Alliance. The Natural Science Collections Alliance is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit association that supports natural science collections, their human resources, the institutions that house them, and their research activities for the benefit of science and society.

! Tripadvisor:
This is one of the world's largest travel guidance platforms. Go to:
! Natural History Museums in Germany.
! Natural History Science Museums in France.

! Cornelia Weber, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Berlin:
The History of Scientific Collections (supported by the the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG).
The project intends to catalogue German universities' collections and to compile extensive data on the holdings and history of these collections, in order to form the basis of a specific investigation into the history of science and a historical analysis of collecting. Go to:
! University museums and collections in Germany.

I. Werneburg and M. Böhme (2018): The Palaeontologial Collection of Tübingen. In PDF. Note also here.
In L.A. Beck, U. Joger (eds.), Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Natural History Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5_52. Worth checking out:
Table of contents (57 chapters).

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

Zentralregister biologischer Forschungssammlungen in Deutschland (ZEFOD). The ZEFOD project was a co-operation of the German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI), the Botanical Institute and Botanic Garden of the University of Bonn and the Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK).