Art & Museums

• 1939 World's Fair: Virtual tour from the U of Virginia.
• 24 Hour Museum: Guide to over 2,000 UK Museums.
• American Memory:Historical collections from the National Digital Library of the Library of Congress. Includes pictures, photos, maps, and sond recordings.
• The American Package Museum: The primary objective of this site is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th Century.
• Art Crimes: A gallery of grafitti art from various cities.
• The Cathedral of St. John the Divine: Information and Virtual Tour!
• Christux Rex is a non-profit organization dedicated to art preserved in churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, with over 1,300 images. This site is also used to distribute religious documents.
• CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) home page. They also have a program which returns a random picture.
• "Dad" Rarey's Sketchbook Journals of the 379th Fighter Squadron: Cartoons and stories from the journal of a WW II pilot, prepared by his son.
• Ruins of Detroit: Follow Lowell Boileau on a tour of the historic, vanishing ruins of his "beloved Detroit."
• Exploratorium The Exploratorium's World Wide Web server, part of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
• Fading Ad Campaign: Photographs of fading ad murals in New York City.
• Hudson River Museum of Westchester: Find out about their galleries, planetarium, and the Glenview Mansion.
• An Illinois Soldier: Private Jefferson Moses of Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers, kept a diary during the Civil War. You can read it (and much more of his writing) online.
• Kodak PhotoQuilt 2000: In the words of the site, here's a "rich and evolving picture of our world as it approaches the new millennium." As the title might suggest, Kodak is taking all photos submitted here and making an online quilt out of them.
• Museum of London with an exhibit on Bedlam.
• The Web Louvre -- Electronic version of the great museum.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum: See a restored tenement at 97 Orchard St. on the Lower East side of NYC. PBS also did a special on the museum.
• American Museum of Photography: The brainchild of William Becker, whose 75,000 photographs from the "first 75 years of photography" make up the bulk of the site's awesome collection.
• Museum List OUCL archive's WWW museum listing
• Mystic Seaport Museum: Located on a 40 acre waterfront site in Mystic, CT, the museum exhibits historic tall ships, small boats, a New England coastal village, and other artifacts. Mystic Seaprt is a great day trip from Westchester.
• National Archives and Records Administartion: Online archive of documents, and exhibits such as WW II era posters.
• National Museum of Art, a subdivision of The Smithsonian Institution.
• Patron Saints Index: A collection of 650 saints and the more than 1000 topics with which they are associated.
• Smithsonian National Postal Museum:, including an exhibit concerning mail aboard the Titanic.
• Institute and Museum of the History of Science: Explore Galileo at the Museum of Science in Florencem Italy.
• Musee Rodin: Official site of the museum dedicated to legendary French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
• Jewels of the Romanovs: Displays bracelets, brooches, and other baubles of the Tsars.
• Thinker Imagebase: Searchable archive of over 65,000 pictures from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
• Robert Pershing Wadlow : the tallest person in history. And quite a nice guy, by the sounds of it.
• Vincent Van Gogh - A Handshake in Thought.
• The Westchester Philharmonic:
• The Web Museum
• The Whitney Museum