Virtual Museum Sites

&

Large Collections of Cultural Artifacts

Museum Sites & Virtual Museums

Metropolitan Museum of New York

This is where the class is!! Thousands of the museum’s paintings and other objects in pictures!

http://www.metmuseum.org/

 

Guggenheim Museum’s world famous collection of Modern Art

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/virtual/index.html

 

Picasso Project (Biography and paintings of Pablo Picasso, with great animations)

http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/

 

Greek Art & Archeology is a Japanese site (check out the URL) that offers a great deal of background information and some images related to Greek art and culture

http://www.officenet.co.jp/%7Eyoji/eng.html

 

Virtual Museum of Japanese Art maintained by the Japanese Government Ministry of Foreign Affairs

http://jin.jcic.or.jp/museum/menu.html

 

US Government and State of Louisiana post this list of interesting sites

http://www.challenge.state.la.us/res/museums.htm

 

Virtual Museum of Canada image gallery

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/index.html

 

Explore the little-known mountain kingdom of Bhutan

http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~bhutan/english/b-home/b-home/start.php3

 

Etruscan (pre Roman) culture and artifacts

http://www.agmen.com/etruscans/pag_engl/museum/arte.htm

 

Charles Stuart University in Australia Virtual Museum (click on a room you want to explore)

http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/arthist/musmap.htm

 

Egyptian Art and Artifacts

http://www.touregypt.net/museum/

 

Lists of Links to Many Museums

The Washington Post’s favorite museum sites: "the most intriguing, [and] best designed."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/museums/museumlinks.htm

 

Virtual Tours provides access to "over 300 museums, exhibits, points of interest and other real-time journeys which offer multimedia guided tours of the web. Most ..offer text and pictures, others in addition transmit sound and an occasional movie."

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.museums.html

 

Personal Web Page maintained by a teacher in Vermont, with links to a wide variety of virtual museums and tours.

http://shelburne.k12.vt.us/SCS/ELECTRIP/museums.htm

 

Educational site with many links

http://www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/congress/museumlinks.html

 

WebMagic links to unusual collections, such as 007, electric shavers, comic books, and unnatural mystery

http://webguide.webmagic.com/Museum.net/Virtual/

 

Nina Stephenson, the University of New Mexico General Library selector for art and art history, maintains this site. It presents promising WWW sites devoted to art and art history

http://www.unm.edu/~nstephen/art.html

 

Last updated on March 6, 2006.