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Museum Resources on 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 in Context http://www.artincontext.com/
Art Museum Network http://www.amn.org/
Art Museums on the World Wide Web http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources
http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/webmuseums/
MUSÉE http://www.musee-online.org/directo.htm
Virtual Library Museum Pages http://www.icom.org/vlmp/
World Wide Art Resources http://wwar.com/
Resources on artists exhibiting on the World Wide Web can be found at:
Art on the Net http://www.art.net/Welcome.html
For gallery and art resources, check:
Internet Art Resources http://artresources.com
Virtually any type of art resource can be found at:
Worldwide Arts Resources http://wwar.com
The Art Archive http://artchive.com/core.html
A virtual museum can be found at the Web Museum in Paris:
WEBMUSEUM PARIS http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/
Almost every major American and European art museum has its own web site. Use them as a resource to learn more about individual collections or artists. Here is a list of some of the most interesting museums you can connect to on the web:
Alphonse Mucha Museum
http://www.webcom.com/ajarts/mucha.html
http://www.mucha.cz/mucha/
Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.html
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
http://sfasian.apple.com/
http://www.asianart.org/
Banff Centre for the Arts http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/
The Brooklyn Museum http://wwar.com/brooklyn_museum/index.html
Butler Institute of American Art http://www.butlerart.com
Michael C. Carlos Museum/Emory University http://www.cc.emory.edu/CARLOS
Marc Chagall Gallery
http://www.webcom.com/ajarts/chagall.html
The Detroit Institute of Arts http://www.dia.org
Finnish National Gallery http://www.fng.fi/
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/
Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami) http://www.lowemuseum.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://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/
University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco http://www.famsf.org
Whitney Museum of American Art http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~whitney
http://www.whitney.org/index.shtml
Famous Artists and Photographers
Individual sites for artists and photographers include:
Ansel Adams—Fiat Lux http://www.book.uci.edu/AdamsHome.html
The World of Escher http://lonestar.texas.net/~escher/
Frieda Kahlo
http://www.fridakahlo.it/
Frieda Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts http://www.fridakahlo.it/
Claude Monet http://www.columbia.edu/~jns16/monet_html/monet.html
http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/monet_claude.html
Picasso and Portraiture
http://www.clubinternet.com/picasso
Diego Rivera Virtual Museum http://www.diegorivera.com
Historical Museums
Historical museums not only provide valuable information on specific regions and specialized topics, but often broader historical background as well. If you are interested in learning about East Coast maritime history, for example, a visit to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will prove quite useful.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum http://www.cbmm.org/
If you want to learn about a topic such as Chicago during the Progressive Era, or the great Chicago Fire, visit the Chicago Historical Society.
Chicago Historical Society http://www.chicagohs.org
Other interesting historical museums include:
Golden Gate Railroad Museum
http://www.io.com/~fano2472/ggrm
http://www.ggrm.org/
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
http://hfm.umd.umich.edu
http://www.hfmgv.org/index2.html
Jewish Museum, New York http://www.jewishmuseum.org/
Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia http://www.mariner.org/
Museum of American Frontier Culture http://www.csvrgs.k12.va.us/Outreach/outreach_1st_grade/Frontier_Culture.html
Museum of American Political Life http://www.hartford.edu/polmus/polmus1.html
Mystic Seaport Museum http://www.mysticseaport.org/welcome.html
The National Museum of American History http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Old Sturbridge Village Museum http://www.osv.org
Science Museums
Many different science museum sites can be found on the web. Like art and historical museums, they are excellent sources of information on specialized topics, as well as rich resources for the development of curriculum materials. Science museum sites can also provide important opportunities for interdisciplinary inquiry.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia http://www.acnatsci.org/
Boston Museum of Science http://www.mos.org/
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 http://www.fernbank.edu/museum/
The Florida Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History http://www.startext.net/homes/fwmsh/
History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/index.html
Manchester Museum http://museum.man.ac.uk/
Miami Museum of Science http://www.miamisci.org/
National Museum of Science and Technology http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County http://www.nhm.org/
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/dinosinnm.html
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science http://triangle.citysearch.com/E/V/RDUNC/1000/09/78/8.html
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry http://www.omsi.edu/
St. Louis Science Center http://www.slsc.org/
Science Museum of Virginia http://www.smv.org/
Science World (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/frameset.html
SciTech Science and Technology Interactive Center http://town.hall.org/places/SciTech/
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
http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/MNHWWWintro.html
http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/index.html
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