Associations, Organizations, Museums
| Resource Name | Comments |
| American Association of Museums | Focal point for professionals in museum and museum-related fields. |
| Klingspor-Museum Offenbach. | “This Web site serves as a gateway for the Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, a museum for modern book art, typography, and calligraphy located in Hesse, Germany. The home page is available in both German and English and provides a general description of the museum's history and holdings.” – Choice |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Collections include more than two million works of art, spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present. |
| Museum of Online Museums (MoOM) | Archived links to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions. |
| MuseumNetwork | "This high-quality Web site is both visually attractive and authoritative in content; its mission is to be the Internet vehicle through which museums worldwide may promote themselves to the public, fulfill their objectives in the spheres of education and research, and generate new sources of income through e-commerce." -- Choice |
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"This site, maintained by the University of Waterloo (Canada), offers an excellent starting point for individuals seeking information on international academic and scholarly societies." Choice |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum. | “The Victoria and Albert Museums in London comprise three separate museums. The V&A South Kensington is one of the world's great museums of art and design. The Museum of Childhood features an extensive collection of toys and childhood artifacts. The Theatre Museum, currently closed to the public, houses the UK's national collection of British stage materials. Overall the museums and their collections are well represented on the extensive V&A Web site. The Theatre and Childhood museums also have separate Web pages that link from the main page. Navigation is easy from this home page, using a series of categories and subcategories. A well-ordered navigation bar is consistent across every page. As expected, the site offers information on current exhibitions, daily events, and details for planning a visit.” – Choice |
| Virtual Library Museums Pages | This site provides a comprehensive listing with links to actual and virtual museums all over the world. The museums are listed by country. Users can also use a keyword search feature ... |
| Walker Art Center. | “At first glance, the Walker Art Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Web site is fairly typical for an art gallery site. Walker Art Center is a museum that features contemporary arts, ranging from traditional visual artists to musical and video performers. Despite its busy front page with constantly scrolling text boxes promoting gallery programs, the site provides basic information for gallery visitors, including hours, maps, calendars of events, and collection highlights. It offers viewers the opportunity to search the site for particular artists in the collection; through links, they can view the art and read brief commentaries on each piece.” – Choice |
| Yahoo! Directory for Art Museums and Associations | Divided by subject. Provides links to various online resources. |
| Yahoo! Directory for Museums and Exhibits | Broken down by region and discipline, this site offers easy links to various museums worldwide. |
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