A volunteer and collaborative effort to bring information about shared microscopy facilities to the University of Arizona and the community.

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

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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.