University museums University museums The Amicican National Music Museum is a music oriented museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. It was founded in 1973 on the campus of the University of South Dakota, as the National Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "America's National Music Museum"
The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) in Oxford, England is the world's first university museum. Its first building was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built in 1678– 1683 to house the collection of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677 — the ones he had collected himself as well as those he had inherited from the travellers John Tradescant, father and son. The collection included antique coins, books, engravings, geological specimens, and zoological specimens — one of which was the stuffed body of the last Dodo ever seen in Europe, but by 1755 it was so moth-eaten it was destroyed, except for its head and one claw. The museum opened on 6 June 1683, with naturalist Robert Plot as the first keeper. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ashmolean Museum"
The Cole Museum of Zoology forms part of the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at the University of Reading and is located on the university's Whiteknights Campus in the town of Reading, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cole Museum of Zoology"
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge and is located on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fitzwilliam Museum"
The Fogg Art Museum is the oldest of Harvard University's art museums. It covers the history of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present. It is housed in an Italian Renaissance style building and has been open to the public since 1895, and is open every day apart from national holidays. Its main areas of strength are Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelites, and nineteenth-century French art. It includes the Wertheim Collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist works and the Boston area's most important collection of Picasso's work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fogg Art Museum"
The Indiana University Art Museum was designed by I.M. Pei & Partners as a commission by the board of trustees of Indiana University, USA. Construction began in 1978 and ended in 1982. The museum's permanent collection includes works by Jackson Pollack, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, and Andy Warhol. The structure is unique in that no walls come together to form a 90 degree angle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indiana University Art Museum"
The Museum of Antiquities is an archaeological museum at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Antiquities"
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) was founded by the University of Reading, England in 1951 to record the changing face of farming and the countryside. It houses designated collections of national importance that span the full range of objects, archives, photographs, film and books. The museum has recently relocated from the university's Whiteknights Campus to a new site, at grid reference , in Redlands Road to the rear of the London Road Campus. This new site has the advantage of being nearer the centre of Reading, and was previously known as East Thorpe House and then St. Andrews Hall. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of English Rural Life"
The Museum of the History of Science, located in Broad Street, Oxford, is home to a collection of historic scientific instruments and is the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of the History of Science, Oxford"
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens. It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the University's Chemistry, Zoology and Mathematics departments, and provides access through to the Pitt Rivers Museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oxford University Museum of Natural History"
The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, the early paleontologist. Most famous for its Great Hall of Dinosaurs, which includes a mounted juvenile Apatosaurus and the 110-foot long mural, The Age of Reptiles; it also has permanent exhibits dedicated to human and mammal evolution; wildlife dioramas, Egyptian artifacts; and the birds, minerals and Native Americans of Connecticut. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peabody Museum"
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is run by the Institute of Archaeology, which is part of University College, London. ...more on Wikipedia about "Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology"
The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford. The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pitt Rivers Museum"
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...more on Wikipedia about "University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology"
The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology forms part of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading and is located on the university's Whiteknights Campus in the town of Reading, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology"
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, founded in 1944, is the science museum of the University of Cambridge, located in Free School Lane. The museum holds a world-class nationally "designated collection" of scientific instruments, models, photographs, and artifacts relating to scientific exploration and discovery, including instruments used at the University as far back as the 16th century. The collection is used by the staff and students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science for both teaching and research. ...more on Wikipedia about "Whipple Museum of the History of Science"
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