User:Georges Cuvier/Timeline of US natural history museums

Date	Museum	City	State	Fate
1773	Charleston Museum	Charleston	South Carolina	Extant
1795	Columbian Museum	Boston	Massachusetts
1799	East India Marine Society	Salem	Massachusetts	Peabody Academy of Science (1868) Peabody Museum of Salem (1915) Peabody Essex Museum (1992)
1804	Market Museum	Boston	Massachusetts
1810	Scudder's American Museum	New York City	New York	Purchased by P. T. Barnum, 1841 Barnum's American Museum (1841)
1818	New-England Museum	Boston	Massachusetts
1820	Linnaean Society of New England	Boston	Massachusetts
1830	Boston Society of Natural History	Boston	Massachusetts	Currently Museum of Science (Boston)
1833	Essex County Natural History Society	Salem	Massachusetts	Essex Institute (1848) Peabody Essex Museum (1992)
1835	Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet (Amherst College)	Amherst	Massachusetts	Appleton Cabinet, Amherst College (1855) Beneski Museum of Natural History
1841	Boston Museum	Boston	Massachusetts
1859	Museum of Comparative Zoology	Cambridge	Massachusetts
1866	Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University)	New Haven	Connecticut
1883	Barnum Museum of Natural History (Tufts University)	Medford	Massachusetts