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The Bavarian Natural History Collections, Munich (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, SNSB).
SNSB archive around 32 million specimens – the second largest natural history collection in Germany. Six state collections are very broadly positioned with anthropology, paleoanatomy, botany, mineralogy, paleontology, geology and zoology.
Worth checking out:
! Calendar (Special exhibitions).

Fossilien. Erdgeschichte erleben. A German fossil magazine.
Links (in German).
! Anstehende Veranstaltungen (in German).

Österreichischer Archäologiebund (in German):
Förderungen & Ausstellungen.

! Paläontologische Gesellschaft (an association for German speaking palaeontologists): Tagungen. (in German).

! The Paleontology Portal (produced by the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the United States Geological Survey, with funding from the National Science Foundation). The Paleontology Portal is a website providing a central, interactive entry point to North American paleontology resources on the Internet. Go to: Calendar of Events. Palaeo meetings and special events.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Exhibitions.

! Steinkern.de Fossilien-Community (in German).
Börsen, Ausstellungen, Events.

Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie (VFMG) e.V. (in German). Go to:
Ausstellungen und Museen (temporary exhibitions; in German).

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

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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).

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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.