Central States Scout Museum The museum fully occupies a former auto dealership and is FULL of Scouting memorabilia, attractively displayed in showcases. The core of the collection is the personal property of a former Scouter named Charles Sherman who is the chief curator of the museum. It houses a wealth of other items donated or loaned by other former Scouts in this area http://www.larned.net/chamber/tourism/cssm/cssm.htm

Kansas Cosmosphere Take a sneak peak at one of the world’s largest collections of artifacts from the space program. Located in Hutchinson, Kansas. http://www.cosmo.org

Emporia State University Geology Museum You can see a western Kansas Cretaceous mosasaur, a giant ground sloth, a mastodon tusk plus other displays in the ESU Geology Museum. The museum contains geological specimens predominantly from Kansas. Included among the 45 displays in the museum are the world famous Hamilton Quarry Fossil Assemblage, the Tri-State Mining Display, petrified tree stumps, and the Hawkins and the Calkins Indian Artifact Collections.

http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/museum/museum.htm

Fick Fossil Museum features Cretaceous Period fossils from the personal collection of Earnest and Vi Fick as well as many fossils found by the Sternbergs, who did extensive digs in the area. The majority of our pieces were collected within a fifty mile radius of Oakley. The other collections and exhibits include a Folkart Collection, Kansas Wildflower Collection, replica depot, and a early 1900's General Store, and a Sod House. www.oakley-kansas.com/fick/

Fort Larned National Historic Site is one of the most well preserved forts in the country. (National Park Service Site) http://www.nps.gov/fols

Historic Fort Hays Fort Hays State Historic Site is the location of an important fort on the Kansas frontier. http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kshs/places/forthays.htm

Kansas State Historical Society http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kshs/kshs1.html

Old Fort Bissell http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Phillipsburg/bissell.html

Pawnee Rock State Historic Site http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kshs/places/pawnrock.htm

Rolling Hills Refugeis an educational non profit foundation, dedicated to the conservation and propagation of rare and endangered species http://www.rhrwildlife.com

Russell is home to several museums and attractions. The Fossil Station museum "captures the spirit" of Volga-Germans who settled the region. The Oil Patch Museum tells the story of the discovery of "black gold" on the Kansas plains. Russell, Kansas is also home to former U.S. Senator, Bob Dole. http://www.russellks.org

Russell County Historical Societyhttp://rchs.russellks.net/

Santa Fe Trail Center http://www.larned.net/chamber/tourism/sftcsftc.htm

The Garden of Eden http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KSLUCeden.html

BLUE SKYWAYS provides a listing of kansas sites to see.

NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE MUSEUMS

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is one of the premier natural history museums in the world. http://www.amnh.org/

Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario provides an overview of museum exhibits and collections, as well as interactive on-line activities. http://www.nature.ca

Feathered dinosaurs? Check out the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/

Denver Museum of Natural History homepage explains why, "[The museum is] so big and so easy that you bring the kids under the guise of "it's good for them'' when it's really just a break for you." http://www.denver.sidewalk.com/link/13298

The Florida Museum of Natural History, located on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainsville, is the largest natural history museum in the southern United States. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

Franklin Institute of Science Museum website visitors enjoy online exhibits ranging from the human heart to the universe. An educational "hotlist" provides additional sites to expand your mind’s horizon. www.sln.fi.edu

The Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University in Boseman "seek[s] to understand, preserve and interpret the natural and cultural history of the Northern Rocky Mountain region." http://www.montana.edu/wwwmor

The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History is part of the Nova Scotia Museum, a cooperative of 25 museums. http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/museum/mnh/index.htm

Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historyconducts research and develops exhibits to preserve and educate for a greater understanding and appreciation of natural resources, natural history and human cultural heritage of the region to people of Oklahoma and others. http://www.omnh.ou.edu/

Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. View "The Age of Reptiles" and learn about Native American Dogs at the http://www.peabody.yale.edu/

The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology , Claremont, CA is probably the only paleontology museum located on a secondary school campus. http://www.webb.pvt.k12.ca.us/webb/Alf/AlfHome.html

Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, CanadaMeet creatures who inhabited the earth 300 million years before the dinosaurs. http://www.rom.on.ca/

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History website provides information on exhibits at the world-famous museum. http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits.html

The Texas Memorial Museumlocated at the University of Texas in Austin features one of the largest paleobiology collections in the world. http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tmm

The University of California Museum of Paleontology web page includes on-line exhibits detailing all aspects of the science of paleontology. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

University of Kansas Natural History Museum Explore this site to learn more about how
the museum discovers, documents, and disseminates knowledge about the earth's biological diversity, past and present, through exhibits, graduate and undergraduate education, research, and public service programs.

http://www.nhm.ukans.edu

University of Nebraska State Museum From Anthropology to Zoology, it is all here in Lincoln. http://www-museum.unl.edu/

University of Wyoming Geological Museum One of the highlights of the are finds from the Red Gulch dinosaur track site. http://www.uwyo.edu/geomuseum/

Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas features Texas dinosaurs and the H-E-B Science Treehouse. http://www.wittemuseum.org/

ON-LINE MUSEUM LISTS

Museums On-Line This site provides a list of all on-line museums in the United States. www.museumca.org/usa

The Worldwide Museum of Natural History is an on-line only museum featuring pictures of fossils and living creatures. http://www.wmnh.com