Exploration #5e1: Online Museums

In this first exploration, we will visit several exemplary online museums. You can find hundreds and hundreds of other online museums in the More Lists of Museums section further down the page.

Exemplary Online Museums

National Archives: Exhibit Hall

National Archives: Our Documents

White House for Kids

Smithsonian: Kids

Smithsonian Education: Students

Smithsonian Museums

The British Museum: Explore/Online Tours

The British Museum: Children's Compass

The British Museum: World Cultures

The Louvre

National Gallery of Art: The Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guggenheim Museum - The Collection

The Getty: Explore Art

LACMA Collections Online

The Exploratorium

Museum of Science and Industry

More Lists of Museums

WWW Virtual Library Museums Pages

WWW Virtual Library: Museums Around the World

Open Directory: Museums

Yahoo!: Museums, Galleries and Centers

Yahoo!: Museums (organized by Countries)

Museums and Museum Sites

Museums and the Web 2002

Kids Museums Around the World

MuseumStuff.com

 

Hint: You can find thousands of other online museums by entering the keyword "museums" on any of the online research and web portal sites that you will explore later in the course.

Record your general observations on these Museum sites in your logbook. Make note of the sites you will be most likely to use in future.

If you are aware of other similar Online Museum Sites that were not included in the list, you are invited to add them to the Online Museums section in the Module 5: Enrichment Resources section on the course web discussion board.

Proceed to Exploration #5e2