Resource Room->Science->Virtual Science Museums
Exploratorium Home Page - A visit to the San Francisco Exploratorium is a fantastic place for students and teachers to visit. The Science Snackbook offers 107 science experiments to do at home or in the classroom. It also offers links to the month's Top Ten Cool Sites (science) and to the best kids' and adults' science sites, as well as to On-Line Exhibits (the best of virtual museums).National Air and Space Museum - The Smithsonian's awesome aviation on-line. You can tour the galleries, read descriptions of exhibits, browse through photographs, and find limitless links to related sites.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - This site includes all kinds of neat information on giant squids, mummified dinosaurs, eagles, and the many other items in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C..
The Franklin Institute Science Museum - This Philadelphia Science Museum is the site of superb changing and permanent virtual exhibits. You can take an historic tour of electricity with Ben Franklin or wander within the human heart. The exhibits offer many classroom curricula extensions. A terrific place for children to explore their curiosity, and for teachers to get ideas that excite discovery and thinking. A great paradigm for students to use in creating their own hypertext research documents.