Hot List of Museum and Collection Sites

Back to Lesson Four, "Museum Hopping" (an on-line fieldtrip) and Treasure Hunt

http://msu.edu/unit/kamuseum/

http://artmuseum.msu.edu/exhibitions/online/monks/construction.html

Virtual Tours

http://calacademy.org/academy_tour/

Field Museum

Dinosaurs & Masks

http://fmnh.org/default.htm

http://moa.ubc.ca/exhibits/tour.php

Virtual Museum Canada

The Canadian Museum of Civilization

www.civilization.ca/aborig/inuit3d/inuit_e.html

Louvre

  http://louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

http://louvre.or.jp/louvre/QTVR/anglais/

Louvre Virtual Tour With Floor Plans

http://louvre.or.jp/louvre/QTVR/anglais/

Natural History Museums and Collections

http://lib.washington.edu/sla/natmus.html

http://2k.si.edu/

Examples of Virtual Museums

• Bellingham Antique Radio Museum - This special collection museum goes global with a well designed WWW site.
• Field Museum - Dinosaurs & Masks
• Franklin Institute - Long renowned for its wonderful "hands on" science exhibits, the Franklin Institute is leading the pack of virtual museums with multimedia and superb online resources.
• High Museum - Excellent collection of paintings and photographs.
• Museum List from MCN - Mega list of more than 1,000 museums.
• The National Gallery of Art - A spectacular offering of great art. This collection goes well beyond museum marketing to support actual visits.
• Native American Resources - Culture, Art, Education, Texts Related to Native American Issues, Video Resources, Related Museums, & Goverment Resources.

• http://museums.state.nm.us/nmmnh/nmmnh.html

• Ontario Science Center
• Palaeolithic painted cave at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc. Startling and dramatic images from the recently discovered cave. Brilliant photographs. Excellent text.
• Paleontology (California Museum of)
• SeaWorld Animal Database
• Smithsonian - This site leads you to some very good national collections.
• The Thinker - One of the largest and most generous offerings of images presented by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. More than 60,000 images available in a searchable database.
• WebMuseum - An extensive collection with hundreds of excellent paintings along with quite interesting biographical and interpretive sketches.
• Whales - Rich collection of resources and projects to support the study of whales.