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Art

Art Archives

• Art and Architecture archives online: Mediterranean basin

Artists

Painters

• Paul Cezanne

Museums

• The Virtual Museums Library Page

United States

• The Museums of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC

• California: San Francisco: The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and human perception
• Florida: The Guide to Florida Museums online
• Georgia: Atlanta: Emory University: Carlos Museum
• New York: New York City: The Guggenheim Museum
• New York: New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York: New York City: The Museum of Modern Art
• New York: New York CIty: The American Museum of Natural History

• North Carolina: The North Carolina Museum of the Natural Sciences

• Washington, DC: The Renwick Gallery and the National Museum of American Art

International

• Australia: Guide to Australian Museums on-line
• Australia: The Australian National University
• Bulgaria: Guide to the Museums of Bulgaria

Europe

France

• The Louvre
• Musee d'Orsay
• The Museum of Science and Industry
• Cave paintings (not a museum)
• Château de Versailles, near Paris. (In French and English.) Includes The Carriage Museum.
• French Ministry of Culture. (Mainly in French, some English.) See:
  The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition. See:
• Documentation, including several databases. (In French.) E.g.:
  • Joconde database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.
  • MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des musées de France (DMF).
  • Muséofile - national database of French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.). Also searchable by location, collection type and services offered.
• The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon. Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies. (In French and English.)
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. (Also in French.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)
• Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and English.)
• Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See collections catalogue including searchable fish catalogue. (In French and English.)
• Videomuseum. (In English soon - September 1997.)
• Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)
• Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
• Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

Germany

• Colditz Castle and Museum, Saxony. See Everyday Life in OfLag IV C exhibition of watercolours by William Faithfull Anderson.
• Deutsches Museum, Munich. Science and technology. (In German and English.)
• German Historical Museum, Berlin. Includes links to other German museums. (In German and English.)
• German Museum of Plastics, Dusseldorf. (In German and English.)
• Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. One of the oldest public museums in Germany. Includes art, crafts and natural history. (In German.)
• Kunstmuseum, Bonn. German art since 1945.
• National Museum for Post War History, Bonn. Contemporary history from the end of World War II. (In German and English.)
• Neanderthal Museum, Mettman. (In English and German.)
• Open Air Museum, Roscheider Hof in Konz, near Trier. Includes an interactive tour using Java (Netscape 4.0 recommended for speed). (Also in German and French.)
• Planetarium im Forum der Technik, Munich.
• Reiff II Museum, Aachen. Realized Electronically Illustrated Fast Frame Interactive Information. (Mostly in German.) Artists may submit electronic artworks for possible inclusion at the reception.
• Roman Open-Air Museum, Hechingen-Stein. A Roman Villa dating from the 1st to 3rd Century AD. (Also in German.)
• Schiller National Museum / German Literature Archive. (In German.)
• Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt.
• StŠdtische Kunsthalle Mannheim. See Turner exhibition. (In German.)
• Transport Museum (Verkehrsmuseum), Nürnberg. Includes the Germany Railway Museum and Museum of Postal Services and Communications. (Also in German and French.)
• Museums in Germany. (In German.)
• Museumslandschaft museums list. (In German.)
• Bavaria museums. (In German.)
• Hamburg museums. (In German.)
• Kulture Online. (In German.)
• ICOM Deutschland information. (In German.)

Greece

• The Acropolis Museum, Athens. Situated on the Acropolis.
• Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Houses the Alexander, WWW Server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
• National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
• Rhodes Jewish Museum, Rhodes.
• Technical Museum of Thessaloniki. (Also in Greek.)
• Cultural map of Greece including museums. Part of the Hellenic Culture information server from the Hellenic Ministry Of Culture. (In English and Greek.)
• Hellenic Culture including Macedonia and Thrace.
• Athens.
• Thessaloniki.

Hungary

• Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. (In English and Hungarian.)
• Budapest museums.

• House of Merchants Folk Museum, Eyrarbakki. One of Iceland's oldest buildings. (In Icelandic, English, Danish and German.)
• National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík. (In Icelandic and English.)
• National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík.

Ireland

• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
• The Garda Museum, Dublin Castle. Museum of Ireland's national police force.
• Guinness Hopstore, Dublin. Includes a Transport Museum section.
• Hunt Museum, University of Limerick. Art and antiquities.

Italy

• Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia. Art collection of Amedeo Lia and his family, founded in 1995. (Also in Italian and German.)
• Archaeological Museum of Bologna. Egyptian, Etruscan and other collections. (Also in Italian.)
• Astronomical Museum, Bologna.
• CeSMAP Study Centre and Prehistoric Art Museum, Pinerolo. (Also in Italian.)
• Institute and Museum History of Science, Florence. (Also in Italian.)
• Italian Web Museum. Virtual marketing!
• Keat-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets.
• Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari. (In Italian.)
• Museo dell'Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata. Museums of the Photographic Image and of the Visual Arts.
• Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Includes the Farnese picture collection. (Also in Italian.)
• Museo Morandi, Bologna. Works of art by Giorgio Morandi. (Also in Italian.)
• Museum of the Physics Department, Institute of Physics of Naples. An exhibition of early instruments of the Institute. (In English and Italian.)
• Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Florence. Natural history museum. Anthropology, botany, geology and paleontology, mineralogy and zoology. (In English and Italian.)
• Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. (Also in Italian.) See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).
• The Virtual Museum of Pisa Shockwave for multimedia. (In Italian and English.)
• Wooden Toy exhibition, Padua.
• Musei e Gallerie Statali, Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze. Florentine museum information, including database access, from Florence. (In Italian.)
• The Vatican

Netherlands

• 7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.
• Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. (In Dutch and English). See information on the house. See also the travelling exhibit Anne Frank In the World: 1929-1945 from Anne Frank Online and the Virtual Anne Frank House.
• Centraal Museum Utrecht. The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands, including historical works of art and the Rietveld Schršder house (1924). (Mainly in Dutch.)
• Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
• Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Art collection including Mondrian and Escher. (In Dutch.)
• Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven. Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923). (Also in Dutch.)
• Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University. Archectural Guide and Gallery including Museums.
• Museon, The Hague. Science and natural history: geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology physics and technology, ethnology. (In English and Dutch.)
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine. (In English and Dutch.)
• Museum Gevangenpoort, The Hague. (In Dutch.)
• National Museum of Coins and Medals, Leiden. (Also in Dutch.)
• Natural History Museum, Maastricht. Includes a virtual tour and kid's museum with a quiz. (In English and Dutch.)
• Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. (In English and Dutch.)
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Not yet on-line.)
• Technical Museum of the University of Delft. (In Dutch.)
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Fossils and minerals, scientific instruments, medals and coins, paintings, prints and drawings. Oldest public museum and the first virtual museum in the country. (Also in Dutch, French and German.)
• University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art. (English and Dutch.)
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
• Amsterdam museums.
• Eindhoven museums. (Dutch and some English.)
• Museums in the Netherlands, Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT). Succinct information, comprehensive coverage.
• Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums. See English information including a directory of all museums. An excellent, comprehensive resource.
• De Museumserver. Dutch museums on the Internet. (Mostly Dutch, some English.) Good, but slowed by use of Java.
• Musea in Nederland. Links sorted by name, type and location. (In Dutch only.)
• North Holland museums (also by city.
• Museumboot, Amsterdam. Guided boat tour around major museums.

• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
• Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
• Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo. (Also in Norwegian.)
• Norway museum links

Poland

• Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw. (In English and Polish.)
• Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium, Gdynia. (Also in Polish.)
• Saltmine "Wieliczka", Museum of Cracow salt-works, Wieliczka.
• Wawelu Royal Castle, Cracow. (In English, German and Polish.)

• Museums, Lublin. (Also in Polish.)

• National Ajuda Palace Museum, Lisbon. (Also in Portuguese.)

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