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Welcome to ATLAS SCIENTIFICA – the online guide to scientifically significant locations around the world!

Put together for – and by – scientifically curious travellers, ATLAS SCIENTIFICA will eventually cover over 500 sites, embracing all major areas of science. These vary from places that can be visited in ten minutes to those requiring a day or more to investigate. With each location, a description is given of the site's significance together with practical information about visiting it.

Some of the major types of site covered (or to be covered) are as follows:

• Locations where important scientific discoveries have been made, such as the Pasteur Museum, Paris, or Mount Wilson Observatory, California

• The homes and working environments of major figures in the history of science, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein

• Major museums centred wholly or substantially on science, such as London's Science Museum or the Deutsches Museum, Munich

• Major sites of current scientific research that welcome visitors, from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), near Geneva

• "Field sites" well away from major population centres, such as the Riversleigh Fossil Fields in Queensland or the Hoba Meteorite impact site in Namibia

• To find sites you might like to visit, as well as information about visiting them, use the SITE FINDER menu at left to select a continent and then a country (and perhaps then a region within that country) or the SEARCH THIS SITE button at the top right corner of the screen. You will see a list of recently added sites above right (this list can be switched on and off by clicking on the CLOSE INFO/OPEN INFO button).