World-Wide Web Resources
Museums and Exhibits

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Sites Added Since May 5

  • A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum (Chicago, Il)

  • Gallery Guide, from Art Now.
  • Museum Information, from ArtSource.
  • Museums, from The World Wide Web Virtual Library. Links to Web sites that are by, for, or about museums, organized by country.
  • Museum Resources, from the WWW Virtual Library.
  • Museums and the Web 1999: Best of the Web

  • A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum (Chicago, Il)

  • Afro-Americ@ Black History Museum, a service of the Afro-American Newspaper Company of Baltimore, Maryland Interactive set of exhibits highlighting important events and people in African American History. The exhibits are highlighted by articles and graphics from issues of the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper.

  • The American Association of Museums, for those professionals in museum and museum-related fields.

  • The American Museum of Natural History, New York.

  • The American Museum of Papermaking

  • The Amistad Research Center, an independent archives, library, & museum dedicated to preserving African-American & minority history and culture

  • Anacostia Museum, and Center for African-American History and Culture.

  • Andy Warhol Musuem

  • The Art Museum Network, focusing on large North American Museums.

  • Berea College Museum's Gallery V

  • The Black History Museum & Cultural Center

  • Brazil National Museum of History

  • British Musuem

  • The Brooklyn Museum, pictures from the museum's collection of Ancient Egyptian art, and the Arts of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas.

  • The Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

  • Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou

  • Cité des Sciences

  • Cincinnati Art Musuem

  • Cleveland Museum of Art

  • Conservation Online, from Stanford University.

  • European Museum Guide

  • Exploratorium, in San Francisco.

  • Expo, Hypermedia Exhibit Guide.

  • Field Museum, in Chicago.

  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

  • The Firehouse Museum, displays a large collection of fire-fighting equipment and memorabilia from across the country and around the world.

  • Flint and Stones, Real Life in Prehistory. From the Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. Exhibition which takes you to the world of the Late Stone Age hunter-gatherers of Britain and Northwest Europe.

  • Florida Museum of Natural History, public natural history museum site that provides access to the museum, its collections and databases, research programs, exhibits, public education programs, administrative departments, function, and history.

  • Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia.

  • George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film

  • Graphion's Online Type Museum, a gallery of typography, featuring biographies of historical figures in type with portraits and samples of their work, and explanations of typographical procedures.

  • Guggenheim Museum

  • Hall of Health, community health-education museum and science center, dedicated to promoting wellness and personal responsibility for health.

  • Hands On Children's Museum, has links to many Web resources related to the Museum's current theme, ocean odyssey, and other resources of interest to the under-10 set (from Olympia, Washington).

  • Harvard University Art Museums

  • Heritage Map Museum, original 15th to 19th century maps. Works of Schedel, Munster, Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu, & Hondius.

  • Houston Museum of Natural Science

  • Institute of Museum & Library Services

  • The Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University.

  • Libraries and Archives Exhibits, collected by Washington University Archives. A compilation of virtual exhibits created by libraries, archives, and museums throughout the Internet.

  • Louvre W3, available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French.

  • Mariner's Musuem, Newport News, Virginia. It is dedicated to "preserving and interpreting the culture of the sea and its tributaries, its conquest by man, and its influence on civilization."

  • Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, includes samples from the archaeology, ethnology, and photography collections from the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at University of New Mexico.

  • McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina.

  • Morfogen Associates NEWS, newsletter of international cultural news primarily devoted to previewing and promoting major museum and gallery exhibitions.

  • Museum of Afro-American History, Boston.

  • Museum of Broadcast Communications, pop culture and latter-day U.S. history through the lens of radio and television.

  • Museum of Man, San Diego.

  • Museum of Modern Art [MOMA]

  • Museum of the City of New York

  • Musuems of Paris

  • Museums Index, from World Wide Arts Resources.

  • National Civil Rights Museum

  • National Museum of Natural History

  • National Museum of Photography, Film & Television

  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, contributions of women artists of all periods and nationalities.

  • Natural History Museum, in London.

  • Pamela Corley Upstairs Gallery, Berea, KY. Regional Arts And Appalachian Crafts. Established in 1977, featuring the work of more than 100 of the area's artists and craftspeople.

  • Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Texas' largest historical museum, including oil exploration, paleontology (dinosaurs), extensive western art collections, and world renowned restoration, conservation, and research facilities.

  • Pennsylvania Trolley Museum

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Rembrandt House Museum, home and workplace of the master for nearly twenty years in the 17th century.

  • Renaissance Dante in Print 1472-1629

  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

  • Royal Ontario Museum, with collections in earth and life sciences, decorative arts, and archaeology; featuring activities for children and an identification clinic.

  • San Diego Aerospace Museum

  • Museum of the City of San Francisco, features reports on the earthquakes of 1906 and 1989, the Oakland firestorm, and a chronology of San Francisco World War II-related events.

  • The Science Museum, London.

  • Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles. International center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people.

  • Smithsonian Institution

  • South Street Seaport Museum

  • State Hermitage Museum,visit the former home of the grand tsars and tsarinas of Russia.

  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  • University of California Museum of Paleontology

  • University of Kentucky Basketball Museum

  • Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky.

  • Whitney Museum of American Art

    • This page was last updated 6 May 2003. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Meg Shaw at megshaw@uky.edu.

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