Type of museum Filter Type of museum topics

Share This
table started by superrobert for the Architecture Commons
This type is used for a categorisation of a museum based on the primary focus of collections held and curated by the museum.  Due to the variety of collections held by various museums, Type of Museum can vary from the broad "Culture", "Art", "Archaeology" to more obscure and specific examples, e.g.... More
+

x

   
x name x image x Museums x article
+

Do you know something that's missing from this view? Add it!

If you have a list you can use our wizard to match it with topics that may already be in Freebase.
Go to the import tool »
x Science museum Boston science museum demonstration National Air and Space Museum
A science museum or a science centre is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc....
Science Museum of Minnesota
Carnegie Science Center
Centre des Science de Montreal
Museum of Science and Industry
more
x Art museum Philadephia Museum of Art Vatican Museums  
Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint Louis Art Museum
Haus der Kunst
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
more
x Aerospace museum   German Museum of Technology  
PAF Museum, Karachi
Polish Aviation Museum
Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space
Modern Transportation Museum
more
x Military / war museum   Canadian War Museum  
The Staffordshire Regiment Museum
Battle of Britain Bunker
x Transport museum      
x Archaeology museum      
x Modern Art Museum Guggenheim-bilbao-jan05 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna  
Bologna Museum of Modern Art
Fondation Maeght
Stedelijk Museum
Pinakothek der Moderne
more
x Museum ship Wisconsin museum United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, a use found mostly with the...
x Decorative art museum   Rijksmuseum  
x Railroad museum      
x Maritime museum Wisconsin museum Peabody Essex Museum
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use...
Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum of Rouen
Hudson River Maritime Museum
Dutch Navy Museum
San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
more
x Biographical museum   Mwalimu Nyerere Museum Centre  
Tribhuvan Museum
x Open air museum Den Gamle By Beamish Museum
An open-air museum is a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of-doors. The first open-air museums were established in Scandinavia towards the end of the nineteenth century, and the concept soon spread throughout Europe and North...
Skansen
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons
Ault Park
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
more
x University museum   Ashmolean Museum
A university museum is a museum or collection run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the university. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the...
Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Bate Collection
more
x Automobile museum   Gilmore Car Museum  
x Children's museum Buell Childrens Museum by David Shankbone Exploration Station
Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs to stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums...
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Wonder Works
Boston Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Los Angeles
more
x Medical museum   Dittrick Museum of Medical History  
x Sports museum   Canadian Ski Museum  
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
x Jewish museum   Judah L. Magnes Museum  
Lesko Synagogue
Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum
Eretz Israel Museum
Issac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum
more
x Prison museum      
x Music museum   Experience Music Project Museum  
Salon Frédéric Chopin
Stockholm Music Museum
Delta Music Museum
Music Museum of Macedonia
x Religious museum   Pope John Paul II Cultural Center  
x Holocaust museum   Yad Vashem  
x Architecture museum   Fallingwater  
The Octagon House
x Aviation museum   Canada Aviation Museum  
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
x Historic house museum Magnolia Manor Wilson Castle
A historic house museum is a house that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a variety of standards,...
John Strong DAR Mansion Museum
Decatur House
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
more
x History museum   Museum of Sydney  
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
Northern Ostrobothnia museum
Leelanau Historical Society and Museum
The Boston Museum Project
more
x Natural history museum   Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology  
Geological Museum
The Niagara Falls Museum
South Australian Museum
Natural History Museum of Basel
more
x Art Cassatt the bath The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but is most often understood to refer to painting, film, photography, sculpture, and other visual media. Music, theatre, dance, literature, and...
Norman Rockwell Museum
Coronado Museum of History and Art
Foundling Museum
Frick Collection
more
x Art Gallery MET NYC Corcoran Gallery of Art
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art...
National Gallery of Art
Phillips Collection
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian American Art Museum
more
x Culture Mehmooni2 The Contemporary Jewish Museum
When Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation") first began to take its current usage by Europeans in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century (having had earlier antecedents elsewhere), it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in...
Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
more
x Journalism Primeiro jornal Brasileiro Newseum
Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience about topics ranging from government and business...
x Contemporary art gallery Contemporary art gallery by David Shankbone BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
A contemporary art gallery is a place where contemporary art is shown for exhibition and/or for sale. The term "art gallery" is commonly used to mean art museum (especially in British English), the rooms displaying art in any museum, or in the...
Kunst im Tunnel
Gagosian Gallery
x Cinema museum   Museo Nazionale del Cinema  
National Museum of Cinema
x Ancient Egypt museum   Museo Egizio  
Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Museum of Berlin
x Asian art Farsh1 Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts
Asian art can refer to art amongst many cultures in Asia.
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Museum of East Asian Art
The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art
Museum of Asian art of Corfu
more
x Natural history Table of Natural History, Cyclopaedia, Volume 2 Gyeonggi Provincial Museum
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural...
Utah Museum of Natural History
California Academy of Sciences
National Museum of Natural History
High Desert Museum
more
x Archaeology Terracotta Army Pit Gyeonggi Provincial Museum
Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaios, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logia, "-logy"), is the study of human activity, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Ashmolean Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
Museu Nacional
more
x Ethnology 仮面(コンゴ民主共和国) Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "people, nation, race") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national...
State Museum of Ethnology
National Museum of Ethnology
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Museu Nacional
more
x Indian Museum Indian Museum Kolkata Malki Museum
The Indian Museum (Bengali: ভারতীয় জাদুঘর) is the largest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at...
x Historical museum   Barstow Route 66 Mother Road Museum  
Western American Railroad Museum
Reyes Adobe Museum
Alhambra Historical Society Museum
Modoc County Historical Museum
more
x Automotive Museum   Blackhawk Automotive Museum  
x Wildlife museum   The Gridley Historical and Wildlife Museum  
National Museum of Wildlife Art
x Classical sculpture Kouros from thebes Glyptothek
Classical sculpture refers to the forms of sculpture from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, as well as the Hellenized and Romanized civilizations under their rule or influence from about 500 BC to fall of Rome in AD 476. It also refers stylistically...
x Archaeological site Monte Albán, a Zapotec site in Oaxaca, Mexico Kerameikos
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and...
Parkin Archeological State Park
Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
Moundville Archaeological Site
Vindolanda
x Air museum   Newark Air Museum  
x Anthropology museum   Tropenmuseum  
National Museum of Anthropology and History
x Ceramics museum   Keramiekmuseum Princessehof  
Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum
x Culture museum   Museum of World Culture  
Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia
Museum of Cultures, Helsinki
Museo De La Salle
Asian Civilisations Museum
more
x National museum   National Museum in Kraków
A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation. The following is a list of national museums:
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Chiang Mai National Museum
Rijksmuseum
Van Gogh Museum
more
x Architecture Brunelleshi-and-Duomo-of-Florence Soane Museum
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form...
Ultra Architecture Museum
Museums of Metz
x Musical instruments museum Ruckers virginal National Museum of Musical Instruments  
National Music Museum
Bayernhof Music Museum
Music Museum
x Presidential library Johnson library John F. Kennedy Library
In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of 13 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are not libraries in...
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
more
x Music memorabilia   Museo Teatrale alla Scala  
x Naval museum   St. Petersburg Bourse  
USS Montpelier Museum
x Photography Museum   Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography  
Musée Albert-Kahn
Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm
x Agriculture Museum   Canada Agriculture Museum  
x Ancient Art Museum Staatliche Antikensammlungen in München Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica  
Turin City Museum of Ancient Art
Staatliche Antikensammlungen
National Palace Museum
National Museum of Ancient Art
x Archaeological Museum Archaeological museum National Archaeological Museum of Florence  
Iraklion Archaeological Museum
Delphi Archaeological Museum
Varna Archaeological Museum
Naples National Archaeological Museum
more
x Zoo Sydney taronga zoo National Aquarium in Washington, D.C.
A zoo (short for zoological park or zoological garden, and also called a menagerie) is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. The term zoological garden refers to...
Skansen
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Edit Collection Schema
All topics in this collection are typed as Type of museum
Use Data from this Collection
Choose a format:

Images and articles are not included in export files, which are limited to 1000 items. Complete data dumps are also available here.

Flag this Collection
Why do you want to flag this collection?