The Educational Science Museum - Natural Science and Technology
A wealth of education awaits the visitor to the Science and Natural History Museum on Abdulla Al Mubarak Street. The Educational Science Museum opened in 1972 in an old 1950's primary school building, its collection has been growing ever since, and several rooms are currently undergoing renovation  in readiness for  exhibits. Each gallery contains either a collection or an exhibit covering a wide range of themes. Collections on display include fossils, stuffed animals,  skeletons, and dried flowers. There are exhibits on health, petroleum , space travel, and electronics, among others. The museum contains display relating to the petroleum industry, natural history, aviation, machinery, electronic, space and zoology, as well as a health hall and a planetarium, Much of  the Science and Natural History Museum has been restored since Liberation. The Skeleton Hall contains examples of a comprehensive range of different vertebrates from domestic animals, to kangaroos, snakes, penguins and aardvarks. Some are shown as skeletons and some are preserved in their skins.

Kuwait  Petroleum Corporation has a display area in the museum with information on all  its subsidiary companies. It also  has scale models of catalytic cracking unit and urea tower, and some geological charts which show a cross section of Kuwait's oil bearing stratum and how the drilling rigs work. The largest proportion of the museum is given to around 20 halls of stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. There are also botanical, insect and fossil halls.  

Kuwait National Museum
Located on Arabian Gulf  Street, near the National Assembly, the National Museum comprises four buildings and a planetarium. It was looted and burned by the Iraqis during the occupation. The museum includes the Al-Sabah collection of Islamic art, and was acclaimed by international art historians as one the most comprehensive collections of Islamic are in the world. Iraq has today returned over 90 per cent of the collection. Other buildings house pearl-diving relics, ethnographic artefacts and archaeological meterial from excavating on Failaka Island. There are plans to  refurbish the old American Hospital building  nearby so that some items can be displayed again.The  museum also house the Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah (DAI), an extensive collection of Islamic art, ranging from early Islam to the 18th century. A variety of scholarly and artistic activities revolve around this collection, each requiring a broad  and intensive background in Islamic history. The collection  itself is organised comprehensive look at the artefacts, the reference library and the various publications of the Hadeeth ad-Dar.

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