The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to museums:

Museum –

What type of thing are museums?

Museums can be described as all of the following:

Types of museums

• Archaeology museum
• Art museum
• Artillery museum
• Automotive museum
• Aviation museum
• Biographical museum
• Botanical garden
• Ceramics museum
• Children's museum
• Community museum
• Computer museum
• Creationist museum
• Diocesan museum
• Design museum
• Ethnographic Museum
• Farm museum

• Fashion museum

• Fire museum
• Folk museum

• Food museum

• Green museum

• Hair museum
• Historic house museum
• History museum
• Holocaust museum
• Jewish museum
• Lighthouse museum
• Living museum
• Local museum

• Japanese museums
• Maritime museum
• Medical museum

• Migration museum

• Mobile museum
• National museum
• Natural history museum
• Open-air museum
• Palace museum
• Peace museum

• Postal museum

• Prefectural museum

• Private museum

• Regimental museum
• Science museum

• Technology museum
• Teddy bear museum
• Textile museum

• Torture museum
• Toy museum
• Transport museum
• University museum
• Virtual museum

• Wax museum
• Zoo

History of museums

History of museums

• Dime museum

Persons influential in museums