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This is a great attempt to bring a museum online. There are practical details, plus attempts to bring to life some of the San Francisco Exploratorium's 650 interactive exhibits, from a 'duck into' kaleidoscope to the Ames room (it has no square corners). To get the full effect of the Exploratorium pages, your system needs to support the JPEG picture compression standard.
Now if you're going to Rome, definitely check this out first. Beautifully illustrated and well-written this site lists all of the Vatican-controlled museums. There are a lot to choose from and obviously they have a certain slant. Read about the Gregorian Museum of Profane Art, the Biga Room and the Room of the Immaculate Conception - I'm not making this up. For art lovers and historians this is a must and before you go you can print out a map of all 24 museums
It's a joy to meander around this gentle museum site, although it's nothing flashy and some of the graphics are a bit poor. The content - a spot of gardening history, a few old tools, featured garden designers etc - reveals what a little gem this London-based museum is. Forget the cold frames, come into the warm and have a look around.
If you're planning a museum tour of Key West (and who isn't), here's the site for you! Eleven choices await you - there's an antique lover's dream in the form of The Curry Mansion Inn, literary lovers can revel in the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum and for history lovers there's the Wreckers' Museum - the most historic home in South Florida. Not much in the way of illustration or interactivity, but what is there is well done and worth a read. Quite why you would want to tour museums in such a lovely part of the world eludes me though!
What an extremely lack-lustre, sad and sorry, routinely dull, wasted opportunity of an excuse for a site. It could be a spangly sequinned celebration of rock celebrity and culture, as presumably the museum is itself. Instead it's an almost entirely text-based description of the museum's over-hyped exhibits. Why not show us Buddy Holly's high school diploma or Hendrix' handwritten lyrics for Purple Haze? Could do better.
Seven museums are represented here under the umbrella of the National Museums of Scotland, including the Museum of Antiquities, Shambellie House Museum of Costume and Biggar Gasworks. Information on current exhibitions and permanent exhibits is included, along with lists of publications, educational resources and how you can get to see them.
Unfortunately this is not an attempt to put the museum's information on the Web but merely a stopping off point when preparing for a visit. As well as details of what is housed at its home in Washington, there is also a list of educational resources and, more generally, some contacts for Holocaust research and organisations based mostly in the States.
Strictly speaking this isn't a museum, it's a big time bona fide resource for anyone interested in finding out about the Civil War.
Many used to come here for the random femmes page, but it's now behind shutters. Now you'll have to be content with the Conservatoire's catalogue, a virtual tour of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, and a nifty picture browser which takes files from newsgroups (such as alt.binaries.pictures.misc) and compiles them into online contact sheets.
The is the first major UK museum to enter the Internet age. You can find out more about the museum's activities, events and timetables and there are a few pictures. Not a substitute for a visit, but a peek behind the scenes is nonetheless of interest. There are also links to other sources about the earth, life sciences and the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum.
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