Universities, libraries, and museums!

[NikkEatsRocks]

I'm trying to put together a list of universities/academies, libraries, and museums (basically any place of higher learning or containing a wealth of knowledge) for a player who is playing a wandering field scientist. We're based out of Cheliax so I've already mentioned the Alabaster Academy in Kintargo but other than that I'm having a hard time locating places that fit the bill.

Any suggestions on where to look for these places or know of any places that would work?

[CrystalSeas]

This thread has a list of Magical Learning Institutions

Magical Learning Institutions

[Jhaeman]

I can help out on Magnimar (this is partially paraphrased from the City of Monuments sourcebook):

Museum of Ages (Capital District, Building C4)
This museum, curated by esteemed scholar of Varisian history Doctor Ernst Landis (N male Chelaxian expert5/wizard5), is the largest in Magnimar and lavishly supported by public funds. It holds displays on the history, inhabitants, and culture of not just Varisia, but Golarion as well. Of particular note are three of its permanent displays: the ancient Eye of Rakzhan (a magically petrified cyclops eyes from a remote island in the Shackles), the Gemstone Regalia of King Chadris Porphyria III (held on public display here much to Korvosa’s disdain), and the Lions of Siv (two matching lions, one of red marble and the other of black). The Museum of Ages funds the region-wide expeditions of renowned explorer, treasure hunter, and Pathfinder Doctor Archisa Aparna (NG female Vudrana bard 5), who frequently lectures on ancient Varisian monuments on the occasions she is in the city.

Founder’s Archive (Capital District, Building C4)
This library, open to the public, is well-funded by the city and contains the personal archives of some of Magnimar’s most notable public figures, as well as the scholarly output of generations of historians and researchers of the arcane, occult, and divine. The premier library in western Varisia, the Founder’s Archive is run with an iron fist by the stern, half-Shoanti/half-Varisian Madam Irba Demerios (LN female expert 8). Madam Demerios holds the only key to the library’s Forbidden Collection.

[Tim Statler]

The Blackrose Museum in Absolom.
And it usually comes with its own plot hooks.

[Noir le Lotus]

Oppara has 2 bardic colleges : the Kitharodian Academy and the Rhapsodic College.

Pitax also has a bardic university.

Absalom has the Allegro College but it has been abandoned but it must have others. Citties like Egorian and Westcrown have bardic colleges too.

[archmagi1]

Lepidstadt, Ustalav has a university detailed just a bit in carrion crown 2.

[Daw]

Absalom has the Arcanarium, the White Grotto, and at least a couple mages guilds.

If not actually antithetical to the idea major temples will have libraries. Pathfinder Libraries vary.

[PFWiki Scribe]

Arcane colleges
Universities

[NikkEatsRocks]

Y'all are terrific. Thanks so much!