Sites with Microscope images
There are many on-line collections of images taken with a microscope. It would be impossible to collect them all, but the links in this table provide a cross section of different imaging modes and subjects. Some sites now include videos of time-lapse or 3D rotations.
Please be respectful of the copyrights of the image owners if you choose to use any of these images.
Image Gallery Web Site | Types of Specimens | videos | LM | Confocal/ Fluorescence | TEM | SEM | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy | single celled organisms, bugs, viruses, plants, cells, etc. | beautiful colorized images | |||||
| Microangela's Electron Microscope Image gallery | single celled organisms, bugs, cells, marine life, etc. | beautiful colorized images | |||||
| SharfPhoto - David Scharf | cells, materials, fungi, semiconductors, insects, etc . | beautiful colorized images | |||||
| Cells Alive! Crystals Alive! | bacteria, cells organic crystals | beautiful colorized images | |||||
| The Galleria, Molecular Expressions, Florida State Univ. | computer chips, organic crystals, wood, food, etc. | ||||||
| Nikon's Small World Gallery | biological, materials | ||||||
| Olympus - list of galleries | biological, materials, insects, pond life (videos) | ||||||
| Leica Microimaging - confocal gallery | cells & tissues | ||||||
| High-resolution & Superresolution Image Gallery, GE Healthcare Life Sciences | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley | snowflakes | ||||||
| Imaging Technology Group Gallery, Beckman Inst., Univ. of Illinois | cells, bugs, materials, etc. | AFM | |||||
| Great Lakes Diatoms, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences, University of Michigan | Diatoms | ||||||
| Biomedical Image Awards (Wellcome Trust) | cells & tissues | AFM | |||||
| BGSU - Algae Image Lab | algae | ||||||
| Biological movies | cells, plants, organisms, Ca+ imaging | ||||||
| BUGscope Gallery | bugs | ||||||
| Foods Under the Microscope | food | ||||||
| Thermo Scientific - Gallery (previously Molecular Probes, Invitrogen) | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Purdue Cytometry CDs #1, #2, and #3 Images | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Cytogenetics Image Gallery, Univ. of Washington | chromosomes | ||||||
| MicScape: Introduction to Microscopy Micropolitan Museum of Microscopic art forms Microscopy Movies Microscopy-UK | insects, plants, pond life, marine life | ||||||
| Image Gallery, Light Microscopy Forum | protozoa, rotifers, etc. | ||||||
| The Ugly Bug page (Oklahoma Microscopy Society) | insects | ||||||
| Journal of Visualized Experiments (sort of a biological sciences YouTube) | movies of cells and tissues | ||||||
| The Paper Project - Arizona State University | handmade papers |
Other sites
For lists of other sites with images, consider visiting:
- Biology Image Galleries
- Histology»Images of Tissues prepared for Histology (part of this site)
Reviewed & updated 07/17/2017. Creation of this web page was originally supported as part of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, NIEHS P30 ES006694.