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| Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago | |
| The Alternative Museum | This site defines its mission: "providing a professional showcase for artists." Exhibitions include Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, Tourists on the Moon, I-Section: Do-It-Yourself Human Dissection, Between the Real and the Unreal, and GenoChoice: Create Your Own Genetically Healthy Child Online! |
| American History and Art from New England | Anyone with an interest in American history will find helpful resources at the Memorial Hall Museum Online, a village museum of 300-year-old Deerfield, Massachusetts. Features of the site include: the Digital Collection, a searchable database of over 1,000 artifacts selected from 70,000 in the Museum's holdings; In the Classroom, a collection of curriculum ideas for teachers; and the Turns of the Centuries exhibit. This exhibit presents images and artifacts on five broad themes: Family Life, Native American Indians, African Americans, Newcomers, and The Land. The exhibits span across three eras -- 1680-1720, 1780-1820, and 1880-1920. |
| American Museum of Natural History | |
| American Museum of Photography | The American Museum of Photography is presently featuring new and exciting online exhibits covering a range of categories. Regardless of what gallery one chooses to enter or what collection one chooses to explore, one is sure to be moved and entertained by the remarkable images. |
| Art Institute of Chicago | |
| British Museum | Tour the virtual collections on topics including Agatha Christie,Cleopatra, Collecting the Modern World, Iron Age Britain, Toys and Games, lots more. |
| Children's Museum of Indianapolis | |
| Design Museum | This London museum focuses on industrial design, architecture, design movements, and design-related technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries. The site features browsable information about significant designers, from Alvar Aalto through Michael Young. The "Digital Design Museum" provides a description of "what web designers choose as the most inspiring developments of design on the web." |
| Franklin Institute Science Museum | |
| Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | The Institute is "dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and promoting interest in the history of the United States." To this end, online exhibits are presented and include such eclectic items as images of letters from the Civil War era, a study of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, letters between 18th century historians Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Warren, and photographs from a 19th century school for African Americans. |
| HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things | Images of diverse objects from the National Museum of American History include famous, unusual, and everyday items with interesting stories to tell. Follow the instructions on the pop-up page to use the main object map, which is divided into broad category regions. |
| The Louvre | |
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Includes a Timeline of Art History which currently covers 20000 B.C. through 1400 A.D. Browse by geography, time period, or theme (metalwork, African art, art of the book, etc.). |
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| The MoMI.org: The Museum of Musical Instruments | This site focuses on virtual collections of guitars, mandolins, and musicians of the last two centuries, with photographs, audio files, and beautiful exhibits. |
| Museum of Ancient Inventions | This online exhibit contains photos and descriptions of reproductions of forty-six inventions, including devices for early brain surgery (a trepanation kit) from 2000 BCE, a tumbler lock from 1000 BCE, a battery from 250 BCE, and devices from ancient Greek theater. |
| Museum of Modern Art | |
| MuseumSpot | This attractive, simple, classified directory of museum Web sites uses the term "museum" loosely. The expected standards are there, as well as such oddball items as the Cheese and Macaroni Gallery. The directories by specialty are quite useful, though by no means complete. |
| Museum of Television and Radio | "Perspectives on Television and Radio," this site's new exhibit, offers a retrospective of several well-known personalities from past decades of broadcasting--Julia Child, Mike Wallace, Steve Allen, Ted Danson, and others. Users can watch video clips of Ray Romano reminiscing about his first Bill Cosby album or Dan Rather describing the impact of reporting John F. Kennedy's assassination. |
| Museums Online | MuseumStuff.com is the one-stop shop for museum information, where Internet users can discover and explore thousands of museums and related resources around the country. Offers links to various museums, virtual exhibitions, museum events, fun and game sites for secondary and post-secondary students, and educational links. |
| National Gallery of Art | |
| Newseum | |
| Norman Rockwell Museum | The museum itself includes over 500 works by Rockwell, along with the Rockwell Archives, which contain over 100,000 items. The Web site provides basic information about visiting the museum and its collections, along with a nice selection of pictures by Rockwell. Visitors to the site will want to take a look at the Eye Opener section of the site, as it features some of his most famous works, including The Gossips, Family Doctor, The Four Freedoms, and The Problem We All Live With. |
| CPLSC's Indiana Museum Links | |
| Smithsonian Institution | |
| Smithsonian National Museum of African Art | |
| The Textile Museum | In addition to information about exhibitions and the museum's history, The Textile Museum's Website has a section on the Care & Display of textiles which contains links to four informative pamphlets developed by the Conservation department. The online pamphlets provide general guidelines for the care of textiles, as well as information on storing Oriental carpets, hanging systems for textiles, and dealing with pests. |
| United States Holocaust Museum | Offers online exhibits, educational resources, bibliographies, and a visitors' section. |
| Virtual Museums Library Page |
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Neat New Stuff I Found This Week
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 2007.
Copyright 2007 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org
