The Ashmolean Museum, which calls itself "Britain's Oldest Public Museum", has an excellent site with links to its collections and archives. There are also links to PotWeb (an online database of their ceramic collections, and an online class about Islamic ceramics.

Ashmolean Museum: Home Page

Norton I declared himself Emperor of the United States in 1859. This site has his proclamations and the history of his reign.

Emperor Norton's Archives

Here is the web site of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The collection is quite large and covers santos (painted and sculpted images of saints,) textiles, tinwork, silverwork, goldwork, ironwork, straw appliqué, ceramics, furniture, and books.


a href="http://www.spanishcolonial.org/">The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art: Santa Fe, New Mexico

This is an incredibly poetic exhibit about the papers that blew into Brooklyn after the Word Trade Center towers collapsed. The Blue Man group composed the music and put the exhibit together.

Exhibit 13 - Home