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Create Your Own Virtual Exhibit
http://objectofhistory.org/
Create Your Own Virtual Exhibit

Characteristics of Museums in Second Life
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/urban/urban.html
A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums
The paper gives an overview of some of the museum-like activities currently being undertaken in Second Life. Current development is mainly in the hands of pioneers, often interested amateurs engaging in serious leisure to create spaces enabling them to share their interests with others.
These efforts are explored in this paper through a systematic analysis of museum visits and a qualitative analysis of interviews with designers and developers of museums in Second Life.
Findings identified include the impact of the current technology on what is created, and the importance of interaction-centric designs.

International Arcade Museum
http://www.klov.com/
International Arcade Museum
... the world's largest museum of the art, inventions, and history of the amusement and coin-operated machine industries.

Museums in Second Life
http://groups.google.com/group/SLmuseums?hl=en
Museums in Second Life
Google Group to discuss using Second Life for museum activities.

The National Virtual Museum (UK)
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
The National Virtual Museum (UK)
The 24 Hour Museum is the UK’s National Virtual Museum, updated daily with at least two new stories including arts and museum news as well as exhibition notices, reviews, features and trails.
The site promotes publicly-funded UK museums, galleries, archives and heritage attractions and seeks to get the message about Britain's great culture to a broad online audience nationally and worldwide.
There's not just stories to read on the site - if you're looking for somewhere to visit with the kids or in your lunch hour, the site's packed with listings info. Our events pages are driven by a live database of more than 3,800 museums, galleries and heritage sites. Many museums check and maintain their own entries in the database, so you know 24 Hour Museum info is up-to-date and authoritative.

Museums of the World
http://www.museumstuff.com/
Museums of the World -- this website can help you find .. museums online .. a staggering variety of .. educational links .. scads of interactive .. virtual exhibits .. dozens of interesting .. museum shops .. specialized content for .. museum professionals .. pages devoted to .. museum jobs .. online since 1999, we now have a database of 1,000s of individual resources related to museums

Museums around the UK on the Web
http://www.mda.org.uk/vlmp/
Museums around the UK on the Web
Very comprehensive list

Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=6
The collection of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum is the largest and most comprehensive in the West. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works that provide?n both quality and breadth?n unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.
The collection of more than 60,000 objects, which range in date from the second millennium B.C. to the early twentieth century, includes paintings, prints, calligraphy, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, lacquers, works of decorative art, and textiles from East Asia, South Asia, the Himalayan kingdoms, and Southeast Asia.

Indonesian Artist - Bibiana's Oil Paintings
http://www.bibiana-art.com/
Oil paintings and chinese paintings online.

The Odessa museum of western and eastern art.
http://www.oweamuseum.odessa.ua/
The Odessa museum of western and eastern art.
More than 5000 images: WEST EUROPEAN 16-20c (painting, decorative art); ANTIQUE ART (Antique ceramics, Roman glass); ORIENTAL ART (Japan, China, India, Tibet, Iran); EXHIBITIONS - modern artists

Camborne School of Mines Virttual Museum (UK)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/geomincentre
Virtual museum of the Cornubian Orefield covering geology, mineralization, minerals, mining history, environmental impact, virtual field trips etc. of Devon and Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Fashion and Textile Museum
http://www.ftmlondon.org/
Fashion and Textile Museum - FTM is the first exhibition space in London solely dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the achievements of this global industry. Situated in the culturally thriving South Bank, FTM aims to hold two to three major exhibitions per year, manage an innovative education and outreach programme and host an extensive digital fashion and textile archive.
Education is central to the Fashion and Textile Museum's mission. We aim to support learners, whatever the age and whatever their previous experience or knowledge.

MuseumKids - the Metropolitan Museum's Web site - ART
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/museumkids.htm?HomePage
Welcome to MuseumKids - the Metropolitan Museum's Web site,
Here you can plan a visit to the Museum with your family and discover works of art in our online features
For an overview of the resources available for teachers, see Teacher Resources. For an overview of programs for teachers, see Teacher Programs. Consult the online calendar for a list of teacher programs organized by date. The Explore & Learn section of the Museum's Web site also contains a wealth of information suitable for the classroom.

24 hour museum
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/
The 24 Hour Museum is an independent charity funded by the DCMS through Resource. Our aim is to promote UK museums galleries and heritage attractions and develop new audiences. The site was launched in 1999 as a partnership project between the mda and the Campaign for Museums.
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University College London
http://collections.ucl.ac.uk/
The College Art Collections includes the Strang Print Room and the Slade School painting collection, while the Grant Museum of Zoology contains a large collection of fascinating specimens.
There are a further ten departmental collections including extensive geological material, the Institute of Archaeology's international collections, an ethnographic collection, and important scientific material relating to UCL pioneers such as Ambrose Fleming and Francis Galton.
UCL offers a number of different virtual museums .... Institute of Archaeology, Science, Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, Geology, Art Collections, Egyptian.
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Fine Arts Museums San Francisco :75,000+images
http://www.thinker.org/
Create Your Own Gallery Online! The Fine Arts Museums new Virtual Gallery allows anyone to become a virtual curator--we give you the art and the gallery space, you bring your creativity and imagination!
Search through and choose from over 75,000 digital images from the Legion of Honor and the de Young Museum and arrange them in your own online exhibition.

The Virtual Museum of Computing
http://vlmp.museophile.com/computing.html
This virtual museum includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world.

Resource
http://www.resource.gov.uk
Resource was launched in April 2000 in order to work with and for museums, archives and libraries within the UK, tapping the potential for collaboration between the sectors. Click here for the press release announcement. Resource replaces the Museums & Galleries Commission and the Library and Information Commission and the new organisation now also includes the archives sector.

Virtual Museums : Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/fnoindex.html#Virtual
Virtual Reality Transforms Virtual Museums | Online Exhibits and Exploratoriums | Virtual Galleries vs. Virtual Museums |

Museum - School Connections in the Digital
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/200103/museum.html
Museums have always been havens of learning, places to walk the length of a life-size cetacean or cower beneath the rearing bones of T. rex, its coy hands held primly to its chest. Or maybe you'd prefer to get lost in Monet's garden gazing at the water lilies, explore the mathematics of perspective, or chart changes in war helmets from the time of Genghis Khan to the Crusades.

Paris Museums
http://www.smartweb.fr/paris/musees.htm
Palace of Versailles, the Musee d'Orsay, the Louvre,

US Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/exhibits/exhibit.htm

A list of museums (& some zoos)
http://www.si.edu/organiza/start.htm
This list is administered by the Smithsonian Institute and includes Museums of ... Sculpture, Art, Space, History, Postal, Portraites, Africa, Buildings, Natural History ........

Smithsonian Without Walls
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/ripley/eap/rt/
Designed for specific use over the Internet ... very interactive and not just a list or display of contents.

Kyoto National Museum
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/meihin/mase.htm
East Asian art and artifacts... has a searchable online catalogue.

Australian Museums On Line
http://amol.org.au/
AMOL is a comprehensive Internet site designed to help Australian museums and galleries make information about their collections available to a world-wide audience. It is also the principal gateway to Australian museums for professionals and volunteers working in the museums sector, community users and researchers.

Virtual Library Museums
http://www.icom.org/vlmp/
... a distributed directory of on-line museums

London Science Museum
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/science_museum_fr.htm
1853 Prince Albert describes a general plan for the buildings it is proposed to erect on the newly purchased ground at Kensington, including some described as Museums or Schools of Science and Industry.

Science Museums of the World
http://www.pg.infn.it/adottaunesperimento/logo/musei.htm
Links to most of the main science museums around the world.

Virtual Tours
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/tours.html
Virtual Tours is a collection of tours for the World, Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest and the US Government. The goal is to provide information which will enhance your journey on the Internet.

Around the UK on the Web
http://www.museums.reading.ac.uk/vlmp/uk.html
Items starting with are recent additions or updates. Items with a have large collections and/or are recommended. If enough people ask that a museum receive a , it will get one

Museum Spot
http://www.museumspot.com/
MuseumSpot.com is a free information resource center that simplifies the search for the very best and most useful museum information on the Web. From the site, quickly and easily locate museums by city, state, country, name and topic; explore museums by type, search for exhibits by artist, access educational and industry resources, and much more.

US National Archives Virtual Museum
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/
Welcome to the PRO’s new ‘Virtual Museum’. It provides a showcase for some of the treasures at the PRO’s new Education and Visitor Centre at Kew, including a host of landmark documents from the past 1000 years of British history. Many of these items have never before been on display. Visitors can explore everything from Famous Names to Crime & Punishment, and from War & Defence to Kings & Queens. They can find out surprising facts about famous people - including William Shakespeare, Robin Hood and Sir Elton John - as well as the extraordinary feats of ordinary people.

Links to museums and the like on the WWW
http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/300300.htm#tips
Lifestyles today are generally so busy that time is now a precious commodity, so why not put 10 minutes of your lunch hour to good use and log on to embark on a virtual stroll around some famous and more obscure museums.

Paleontology Museum Database
http://www.cyberspacemuseum.com/paleodbase.html
A list of dinosaur-related museums.

Museum of Ancient Sites
http://www.ancientsites.com/index.rage
For the history student .... once you register (free) and become a member you can visit ... Acncient Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Nieuw Amsterdam, Machu Picchu and Tara (a Celtic Town).

24 Hour Museum
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/Home.htm
The 24 Hour Museum is the UK gateway to museums, galleries and heritage attractions. It is quality controlled which means that only museums and galleries registered with the Museums & Galleries Commission, or non profit-making galleries, historic houses and heritage attractions are included on this site, according to the following criteria:

UK Virtual Museum
http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum.html
Established Jan.'99 and sponsored by Sainsburys in the UK. This site will allow visitors to assemble their own private collection of favourite exhibits from Britain's 2,500 museums and galleries. In the Resources section is a 'Teachers Zone' with downloadable 'Victorian Britain' activities and worksheets for KS2 and KS3.