RESOURCE GUIDE TO MUSEUMS

INTRODUCTION

This resource guide was created as a project for L597 - Information Networking, a course taught in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington Campus. This guide is best viewed in Netscape , although it can be used with other browsers.

This resource guide was designed to be a place where K-12 students can explore museums on the internet. But anyone interested in museums can use this guide to get a flavor for what is available. The resource guide is not intended to be a guide to all museums on the internet because there are far too many existing museum sites and new museum sites every day.

Because of the large number of museums, they have been separated into two sections. One contains museums in the United States and the second contains museums outside the United States. Within each section museums are separated into art, science, and history museums. Additionally, there is a category for miscellaneous museums (and psuedo museums) that I couldn't resist including.

Finally, a word of warning. Many of these sites are graphic intensive and may require longer to load than sites that contain only a few graphics. I hope you have fun exploring museums on the internet!

MUSEUMS IN THE UNITED STATES

Art Museums

Science Museums

History Museums

Miscellaneous Museums

MUSEUMS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

Art Museums

Science Museums

History Museums

Miscellaneous Museums

LARGE GROUPS OF MUSEUMS AND OTHER RESOURCE GUIDES

• Smithsonian Institution Home Page
• Museums in Stockholm
• Museums of Paris
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
• Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide - contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.
• History of Science: Museums
• Science: Museums and Exhibits: Indices
• Not Waiting for the Information Highway: Art Galleries on the World Wide Web: McLaughlin, a professor of communications at USC, explores the growing number of art-related sites on the WWW. She looks at 37 sites, focusing on the issues of interactivity, hyper- textuality, and accessibility. She also covers the 'art-world' culture, and how it is translating, or transforming, in its migration toward an online culture. [Current Cites, 6(1), Jan. 1995]

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