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Museum Resources on the World Wide Web Chapter Six provides addresses for art museums to web sites on famous photographers and artists, historical museums and science museums. Art Museums Useful general indexes for art museums and artists on the World Wide Web include: Art in Context Art Museum Network Art Museums on the World Wide Web
MUSÉE Virtual Library Museum Pages World Wide Art Resources Resources on artists exhibiting on the World Wide Web can be found at: Art on the Net For gallery and art resources, check: Internet Art Resources Virtually any type of art resource can be found at: Worldwide Arts Resources The Art Archive A virtual museum can be found at the Web Museum in Paris: WEBMUSEUM PARIS Alphonse Mucha Museum Art Institute of Chicago Asian Art Museum of San Francisco http://www.asianart.org/ The Brooklyn Museum Butler Institute of American Art Michael C. Carlos Museum/Emory University
The Detroit Institute of Arts Finnish National Gallery Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art Glenbow Museum Guggenheim Museum Houston Museum of Fine Arts The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge Los Angeles County Museum of Art Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami) Metropolitan Museum of Art Minneapolis Institute of Arts Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musee du Louvre The Museum of Modern Art, New York National Museum of American Art Palmer Museum of Art University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Whitney Museum of American Art Famous Artists and Photographers Individual sites for artists and photographers include: Ansel Adams—Fiat Lux The World of Escher
Frieda Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts Claude Monet http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/monet_claude.html
Diego Rivera Virtual Museum Historical Museums Historical museums not only provide valuable information on specific regions and specialized topics, but often broader historical background as well. If you are interested in learning about East Coast maritime history, for example, a visit to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will prove quite useful. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum If you want to learn about a topic such as Chicago during the Progressive Era, or the great Chicago Fire, visit the Chicago Historical Society. Chicago Historical Society Other interesting historical museums include: Golden Gate Railroad Museum Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village http://www.hfmgv.org/index2.html Jewish Museum, New York Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia Museum of American Political Life Mystic Seaport Museum The National Museum of American History Old Sturbridge Village Museum Science Museums Many different science museum sites can be found on the web. Like art and historical museums, they are excellent sources of information on specialized topics, as well as rich resources for the development of curriculum materials. Science museum sites can also provide important opportunities for interdisciplinary inquiry. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Boston Museum of Science The California Academy of Sciences Carnegie Science Center Chicago Academy of Sciences Nature Museum Explorit Science Center (Davis, California) Fernbank Museum of Natural History History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy Manchester Museum National Museum of Science and Technology Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County New England Science Center The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science North Carolina Museum of Life and Science Oregon Museum of Science and Industry St. Louis Science Center Science Museum of Virginia Science World (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) SciTech Science and Technology Interactive Center The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History The Swedish Museum of Natural History University of Georgia Museum of Natural History http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/index.html
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