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.