WWW-VL: HISTORY: MUSEUMS

• Museums World-Wide

  • WWW-Virtual Library: Museums
  • WWW-VL: United States: History Museums
  
  

• Museum Studies

  • H-Museums: Museums and Museum Studies [H-Net]
  • Museum of Law ABA
  • Virtual Library Museen [English version]
  
  

• New .museum Sites (Recommended verified domain)

  • MuseDoma, Museum Domain Management Association [about.museum -- Contact for .museum domain]
  • ICOM, International Council of Museums, Paris [icom.museum/ -- .museum domain sponsor group]
  • Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden [nrm.museum -- Operational center]
  • Getty Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA [getty.art.museum/ -- J. Paul Getty Trust major funder of .museum domain]
  
  

  • Selected .museum sites

    • Canadian Heritage Information Network, [chin.canada.museum/]
    • Chicago Children's Museum, Chicago, IL [chicago.childrens.museum/]
    • Henry Ford Museum, Deerborn, MI [henryford.history.museum]
    • Holmes Museum of Anthropology, Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery, Wichita, KS [holmes.anthropology.museum/]
    • Honk Kong Heritage Museum, [hk.heritage.museum]
    • Hong Kong History Museum, Hong Kong, PRC [hk.history.museum]
    • Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL [illinois.state.museum]
    • Museum Für Kommunikations Berne, Switzerland [swiss.communication.museum/]
    • Naper Settlement Museum, Naperville, IL [naper.settlement.museum/]
    • Nobel Prize Virtual Museum,Stockholm, Sweden [nobelprize.virtual.museum/]
    • Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA [oakland.california.museum]
    • Pro Civitate Christiana, Assisi [procivitate.assisi.museum/]
    • Roman Baths Museum, Bath, UK [roman.baths.museum]
  
  

• Some Eminent Museums

  • Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany [Egyptian Museum, in English]
  • Ashmolean, Oxford, England [Great Britain's oldest public museum]
  • Colorado History Museum, Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO
  • Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
  • Global Library Exhibit New York Library, NY
  • Iraq Museum International Baghdad, Iraq
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Kremlin Museum, Moscow, Russia
  • The Louvre Museum | Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
  • Museum of @ntiquities University of Newcastle, UK
  • Museum Meiji-mura Uchiyama, Inuyama-shi, Japan
  • National Historical Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia
  • National Museum of Cbina, Beijing, PR China
  • Neues Alamannenmuseum Ellwangen, Germany
  • Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
  • Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, UK
  • Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
  • State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
  • HM Tower of London, United Kingdom
  • Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy
  • The Virtual Museum of Computing
  • Wellcome Museum University of Wales Swansea, The Egypt Centre

• Why Museums Matter

  • Charting the Landscape/Mapping New Paths: Museums, Libraries, and K-12 Education, of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) [.pdf]
  • "Museums: Why Should We Care? For the study and understanding of mankind", by Philippe de Montebello, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York