The Internet and the World Wide Web

Chapter Six provides addresses for art museums to web sites on famous photographers and artists, historical museums and science museums.

Art Museums

Useful general indexes for art museums and artists on the World Wide Web include:

Art Museums on the World Wide Web http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html

Art Sites on the Internet        http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/Artsites/Artsites.html

Art and Architecture History Server                           http://rubens.anu.edu.au

Art on the Net                                                 http://www.art.net/Welcome.html

Internet Art Resources                                                http://artresources.com

Worldwide Arts Resources                                                    http://wwar.com

WEBMUSEUM PARIS                                                 http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/

Almost every major American and European art museum has its own web site. Some of the most interesting include:

Art  Institute of Chicago                                                   http://www.artic.edu

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco                           http://sfasian.apple.com/

Banff Centre for the Arts                                       http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/

The Brooklyn Museum                                           http://www.brooklynart.org/

Butler Institute of American Art                                 http://www.butlerart.com

Michael C. Carlos Museum/Emory University    http://www.cc.emory.edu/CARLOS

Dallas Museum of Art                        http://www.unt.edu/dfw/dma/www/dma.htm

The Detroit Institute of Arts                                                  http://www.dia.org

Finnish National Gallery                                     http://www.fng.fi/fng/html2/en

Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art http://www.latinoweb.com/museo

Glenbow Museum                                                       http://www.glenbow.org

Guggenheim Museum                                           http://www.guggenheim.org/

Houston Museum of Fine Arts                                           http://www.mfah.org

The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge   http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html

Los Angeles County Museum of Art                              http://www.lacma.org/

Metropolitan Museum of Art                                  http://www.metmuseum.org

Minneapolis Institute of Arts                                        http://www.artsMIA.org

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts                                   http://www.mbam.qc.ca

Musee du Louvre                                 http://www.paris.org:80/Musees/Louvre/

The Museum of Modern Art, New York                         http://www.moma.org/

National Museum of American Art                              http://www.nmaa.si.edu

Palmer Museum of Art
http://cac.psu.edu/~mtd120/palmer/

University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco                              http://www.thinker.org/

Whitney Museum of American Art          http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~whitney

Famous Artists and Photographers

Ansel Adams—Fiat Lux                  http://www.book.uci.edu/AdamsHome.html

The World of Escher                                         http://www.worldofescher.com/

Frida Kahlo
http://www.cascade.net/kahlo.html

Claude Monet
http://www.columbia.edu/~jns16/monet_html/monet.html

Picasso and Portraiture
http://www.clubinternet.com/picasso

Diego Rivera Virtual Museum                                 http://www.diegorivera.com

Historical Museums

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum                               http://www.cbmm.org/

Chicago Historical Society                                       http://www.chicagohs.org

Golden Gate Railroad Museum                                      http://www.ggrm.org/

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village                      http://www.hfmgv.org

Jewish Museum, New York                              http://www.jewishmuseum.org/

Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia
http://www.mariner.org/mariner

Museum of American Frontier Culture (No longer available)  http://www.elpress.com/staunton/FNTRCLT.HTML

Museum of American Political Life http://www.hartford.edu/polmus/polmus1.html

Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm

Mystic Seaport Museum                                               http://www.mystic.org/

National Civil Rights Museum                      http://mecca.org/~crights/ncrm.html

The National Museum of American History http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/start.htm

Old Sturbridge Village Museum                                         http://www.osv.org

Science Museums

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
http://www.acnatsci.org/

Boston Museum of Science                                             http://www.mos.org/

Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/

The California Academy of Sciences
http://www.calacademy.org/

Carnegie Science Center
http://www.csc.clpgh.org/

Chicago Academy of Sciences Nature Museum
http://www.chias.org/

Explorit Science Center (Davis, California) http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/GO/EXPLORIT/

Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia http://www.fernbank.edu/

The Florida Museum of Natural History                     http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (No longer available) http://198.215.124.201/fwmsh.html

History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/index.html

Kansas University Natural History Museum
http://ron.nhm.ukans.edu/ksem/

Manchester Museum                   http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~mellorir/museum.html

Miami Museum of Science                                        http://www.miamisci.org/

National Dinosaur Museum, Gungaughlin, Australia http://www.world.net/Travel/Australia/dino-museum

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/lacmnh

National Museum of Science and Technology Ottawa, Ontario, Canada http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/

New England Science Center
http://www.nesc.org/

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science http://www.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/nmmnh/nmmnh.html

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science http://ils.unc.edu/NCMLS/ncmls.html

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
http://www.omsi.edu/

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology http://www.tyrrell.com/welcome.html

St. Louis Science Center                                                   http://www.slsc.org/

Science Museum of Virginia                                            http://www.smv.mus.va.us/

Science World (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/

SciTech Science and Technology Interactive Center http://www.scitech.org.au/

The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History http://nmnhwww.si.edu

The Swedish Museum of Natural History                           http://www.nrm.se/

University of Georgia Museum of Natural History (No longer available) http://gis.lislab.uga.edu/natmus

University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History (No longer available)                                                    http://www.exhibits.Isa.umich.edu/

Wayne State Fossil Museum http://gopher.science.wayne.edu/animals/fossil/index.html

Listed below are new web sites relevant to this chapter found by the author since the publication of The Internet and World Wide Web. These sites will be included in subsequent editions of the book.

Art Museums

Freer and Sackler Galleries    http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/freer/start.htm

Galleria degli Uffizi                                               http://www.televisual.it:80/uffizi

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts                                        http://www.mbam.qc.ca

National Museum of Women in the Arts                                http://www.nmwa.org

History Museums

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson                          http://www.monticello.org

Tenement Museum                                             http://www.wnet.org/tenement