![Crossing the Thames: the Many London Bridges](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/1x1_x3_58c52d5e-566b-44bf-ab1b-a5fac8cdc06d_{width}x.jpg?v=1709910630)
Crossing the Thames: the Many London Bridges
The London Bridge has been an iconic structure in film, literature, and nursery rhyme, but the br...
![Where Did the Moon Come From?](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Moon_P05_crop_{width}x.jpg?v=1681833287)
Where Did the Moon Come From?
So much of what we know about distant space is a mystery, but even our closest cosmic neighbor re...
![Libyan Desert Glass: The Rock of God](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/MAIN-002_{width}x.jpg?v=1680228862)
Libyan Desert Glass: The Rock of God
Scattered among the Sahara’s billowing dunes, hidden amongst the grains of sand, lie small glassy...
![Hadrosaurs: Master Herbivores of the Late Cretaceous](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/25-HADROSAUR_1x1_b8b8e401-9aa3-428a-a238-b15ed2218476_{width}x.jpg?v=1706220292)
Hadrosaurs: Master Herbivores of the Late Cretaceous
By the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, dinosaur populations stagnated, struggling under the climate ...
![Dimetrodons: Deadly Mammalian Ancestors](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Dimetrodon_skeleton_1x1_72b56cd6-ce5c-4a50-a6d2-0a7eec404e25_{width}x.jpg?v=1702490178)
Dimetrodons: Deadly Mammalian Ancestors
280 million years ago, the Dimetrodon roamed the Earth, an apex predator at the top of the Permia...
![Towering over Japan: The Story of Mount Fuji](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/fujisquared_{width}x.png?v=1699390204)
Towering over Japan: The Story of Mount Fuji
With a height of 3,776 meters (12,385 ft), Mount Fuji is the highest mountain across the Japanese...
![Vlad Tepes III: The Real Dracula](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/woodcut_1x1_fixed_{width}x.jpg?v=1698355060)
Vlad Tepes III: The Real Dracula
The connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire Count Dracula and the historical Vlad Dracula is oft...
![Alcatraz: The History of the Rock](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/alcatraz-occupation-1x1_{width}x.jpg?v=1697065550)
Alcatraz: The History of the Rock
Inhospitable and inescapable, the Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island housed some of the most...
![Roman Arrows: Weapon of an Empire](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/arrowhead-trajan_s-1x1_{width}x.jpg?v=1696463497)
Roman Arrows: Weapon of an Empire
Today, the ancient Romans are remembered for their military tactics and sprawling empire, but the...
![The U.S. Capitol: Building Democracy](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/capitol-eastern-square_{width}x.jpg?v=1695917287)
The U.S. Capitol: Building Democracy
In 1800, when only the first of its wings had been completed, the United States Capitol held its ...
![Carcharodontosaurus: The Moroccan Superpredator](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/carcharodontosaurus-final_1200x_026bf566-7fee-4fcc-a2ee-d8200ce350ad_{width}x.jpg?v=1695098566)
Carcharodontosaurus: The Moroccan Superpredator
Deadly, gigantic, and hungry, the Carcharodontosaurus was one of the most fearsome predators of t...
![The Space Shuttles: 30 Years of Flight](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/final_program_launch_1x1_e412e465-ec73-49ab-a54b-667d135afb7c_{width}x.jpg?v=1694045066)
The Space Shuttles: 30 Years of Flight
During its three decades of operation, NASA's Space Shuttle program delivered 133 successful miss...
![Ichthyosaur and the Origins of Paleontology](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/ichthyosaur-square_{width}x.jpg?v=1693515889)
Ichthyosaur and the Origins of Paleontology
During the Mesozoic Era, as the shifting continents were stalked by lumbering Tyrannosaurus and f...
![Finding Fossils at Mazon Creek](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/MAIN-001_{width}x.jpg?v=1692906515)
Finding Fossils at Mazon Creek
At Mazon Creek in Illinois, collectors gather to search the riverside for ancient stones that...
![The Teeth of the Cave Bear](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/cave-bear-illustration-final-square-01-1500_{width}x.jpg?v=1692131025)
The Teeth of the Cave Bear
Over 25,000 years ago, the massive cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, shared the planet with our early an...
![The Last Flight of the Hindenburg](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/original_1x1_341b6daa-bd24-4b6e-b884-d96e08594e8b_{width}x.jpg?v=1692089779)
The Last Flight of the Hindenburg
On May 3, 1937 the Hindenburg set off on its final transatlantic flight from Frankfurt, Germany t...
![Living off the Land: The Oreodonts of North America](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/oreo_illustration_1x1_78d76cd9-e984-4fa5-9baf-05ac38b56583_{width}x.jpg?v=1691074898)
Living off the Land: The Oreodonts of North America
At the end of the Eocene, Earth’s ecosystems began to change. A shift in climate and a decline in...
![The Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/diana_1x1_5f26019b-4bf2-473c-b166-a7d3a32367ef_{width}x.jpg?v=1690298562)
The Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana
Oftentimes weddings are tight-knit affairs, a bride and groom surrounded by friends and family, b...
![To the Moon and Back: The Story of Apollo 11](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Apollo_11_photo_of_Buzz_Aldrin_by_Neil_Armstrong__48334391441_1x1_c380d512-7b70-4091-89a7-953195325c3e_{width}x.jpg?v=1689815428)
To the Moon and Back: The Story of Apollo 11
On this day, July 20, fifty-four years ago, human beings first walked on the surface of the moon....
![Portals to the Past: The La Brea Tar Pits](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/tar-pit-riker-desk-MAIN-010_{width}x.jpg?v=1689344138)
Portals to the Past: The La Brea Tar Pits
In the heart of Los Angeles’ sprawling cityscape, a rare geological phenomenon offers a glimpse ...
![The Greatest: Muhammad Ali In and Out of the Ring](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Clay_vs_Liston__1x1_c93cd4ec-4f2f-4157-959c-5c030b727cc7_{width}x.jpg?v=1688092416)
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali In and Out of the Ring
In 1964, a loud, handsome boxer from Louisville, Kentucky shocked the sports world by beating the...
![Age of Vikings: Bridging the Old and New Worlds](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Leif_Erikson_Discovers_America_Hans_Dahl_1x1_713e95be-8071-49c2-9252-82a909e41310_{width}x.jpg?v=1687460022)
Age of Vikings: Bridging the Old and New Worlds
In 793 CE, a longship appeared off the coast of Lindisfarne, a small English island that held lit...
![Steve Jobs at Apple-II launch.](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/101085315-80823058_1x1_2616d4e6-c2ad-47fe-a5bb-a927dbba800d_{width}x.jpg?v=1686320205)
Inventing the Future: Steve Jobs and Apple
Beginning life as the adopted son of working-class parents, Steven Paul Jobs rose to the height o...
![Creating Tatooine: Filming Star Wars in Tunisia](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/STARWARS-Krayt-3PO-square_{width}x.jpg?v=1683042535)
Creating Tatooine: Filming Star Wars in Tunisia
When George Lucas sought out a location to stand in for a “galaxy far, far away,” he settled on T...
![A Millennia of Chain Mail](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Cleric-Knight-Workman_{width}x.jpg?v=1682614587)
A Millennia of Chain Mail
Bookended by the collapse of the western Roman Empire in 476 and the beginnings of the Renaissanc...
![California's Gateway: Building the Golden Gate Bridge](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Construction_of_the_Golden_Gate_Bridge_3c22793u_1x1_3ad201de-b329-4099-98ff-b843f4793dfe_{width}x.jpg?v=1681932019)
California's Gateway: Building the Golden Gate Bridge
From the comfort of the present day, the Golden Gate Bridge seems like an inevitability, as much ...
![Shrinking the World: The First Transatlantic Cable](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Awaiting_the_Reply_1x1_86a0e5f7-0d37-4a09-ae96-f7b074257229_{width}x.jpg?v=1681331011)
Shrinking the World: The First Transatlantic Cable
Ten years after Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first telegraph message in 1844, the world was hooked...
![Woolly Mammoths: Giants of the Pleistocene](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/1x1_{width}x.png?v=1680809223)
Woolly Mammoths: Giants of the Pleistocene
Beneath the surface of the North Sea, a graveyard from another chapter of the Earth’s history lie...
![A cast of a Maiasaura fossil emerging from its egg.](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/maia_1x1_46c48606-a195-4c82-bc0e-f7540e45812d_{width}x.jpg?v=1680296300)
Starting off Small: The Study of Dinosaur Eggs
The egg is an incredible natural structure designed to protect and support a growing body until i...
![Is the Megalodon Still Alive? (Nope)](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/meg_1x1_1657c807-cbfe-4c89-8faf-4f01fae186b0_{width}x.jpg?v=1678670177)
Is the Megalodon Still Alive? (Nope)
Sometimes the line between the animal kingdom and mythological creatures is a blurry one. The Oto...
![A Triceratops skeleton.](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/tri_1x1_7d670c55-1541-4c8e-b047-6f7f567c0d96_{width}x.jpg?v=1678992085)
Triceratops: More Than T-Rex Food
In the popular imagination, Triceratops is too often understood simply in the context of its pred...
![Seymour Cray posing with his supercomputer the Cray-1](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/Good_cray_w_cray_1x1_81799822-adc3-4500-9f68-98bc74a00b5f_{width}x.jpg?v=1677863624)
The Fastest Computer in the World: Seymour Cray and the Cray-1
Computer advancement is always a matter of miniaturization. Data that once took a car-sized compu...
![When the Sky Fell: The Chelyabinsk Impact](http://shop.minimuseum.com/cdn/shop/articles/CHELY_1X1_ac5b49e5-75fa-4771-a84a-7b6805c7473b_{width}x.jpg?v=1677276064)
When the Sky Fell: The Chelyabinsk Impact
Ten years ago today, a flash of light streaked across the sky over Western Russia. For a brief mo...