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