Cuyamaca College in El Cajon, California (near San Diego) has a museum devoted to the Americas.


Heritage of the Americas Museum: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Natural History, Education

Did you know that Aruba has an archaeological museum?

The Archaeologic Museum of Aruba

Here is an excellent search engine for blogs! Take a look at the categories.

Blog Search Engine - Blog Directory, Blog Search, Blog Directories - Links Menu

Reel Classic is devoted to classic movies and has more than 3 gigabytes of content.


Reel Classics: Elizabeth's Classic Movie Homepage

A great collection of photographs (and you can order prints of them) of abandoned buildings in New England.

newenglandruins.com - photography by rob dobi

The National Building Museum explores architecture in America with this Flash site.

BUILDING-AMERICA

This virtual tour of the Roosevelt's home includes the history, 360 degree views, stories and a timeline.

PoughkeepsieJournal.com - Rendezvous with History: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt State Historic Site

This is a database of foreign films and classics.

Masters of Cinema - HOME

An exhibit on the evolution of games.

Pastimes and Paradigms : GAMES WE PLAY ll Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

A collection of more than 13,000 gravestone sculpture and images.

Farber Gravestone Collection

PubMedCentral is an archive of aprox. 50 life sciences journals that offers free acess to complete articles.


PubMedCentral

Ian is just wild about Shoelaces and how to tie them. He has even invented a new way to tie them! This is a serious site about shoelace knots etc., but also says a lot about folks with too much time on their hands. ;-)


Ian's Shoelace Site - Introduction

Here is the YahooGroups list for news of art museums.

Yahoo! Groups : MuseNews-Art

And, finally, the YahooGroups list for news of the art museum world.

Yahoo! Groups : MuseNews-Art

Here is the YahooGroups place to find a museum job.


Yahoo! Groups : MuseJobs

This YahooGroup is for general museum news, discussion and information.


Yahoo! Groups : MuseNews-General

This YahooGroup is for those interested in learning about science museums, from news to ideas for museums.

Yahoo! Groups : MuseNews-Science

The Anthracite Heritage Museum is all about the coal miners who came from Europe to work the Pennsylvania mines.

Anthracite Museum Home Page

The result of having an identification day at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A fun little article.


Wired News: What Have We Here? Junk, Mostly

Hubble Source is a collection of products and resources for educators, museum professionals and others. One of the new items they have is an IMAX trailer about the Hubble Telescope.



HubbleSOURCE: Home

The Michigan Relics were a fraud perpetuated in the 1890s. Here is an online exhibit about them.


Digging Up Controversy: The Michigan Relics, Michigan Historical Museum

An online exhibit of Colonial Williamsburg's Mapping Colonial America collection.

Colonial Williamsburg Online Museum Exhibits

Each holiday (both major and minor) Google changes its logo. Lately, it has also been doing it for major events, like the Mars landing. Here is a museum devoted to Google logos.


Google Holiday Logos

The Odditorium has the old Ripley's movie clips of some of its oddest folks. It is also the entrance to the Believe it or Not! web site. You can even get information here about running your own RBN museum, or sending a greeting card.


Ripley's Believe It or Not!? Odditorium

Let it Be...



Welcome to the website of the John Lennon Museum !

From the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, these are the papers of Latino and Latin American Artists.

Archivos Virtuales

A wonderful site on how Lego bricks are made. Be sure to mouse over the little numbers to see the machines in action.


moab

The Rock and Roll Hall of Shame. Here, you can actually listen to the tracks.

Fade to Black-On Line Magazine

Ever wanted to hear Telly Savalas sing? Or Ethel Merman doing disco? It is all here, along with descriptions.


Frank's Vinyl Museum: The Internet Home of Weird Records

A small, sweet site that is a collection of photographs of fading advertisements painted on buildings.


LILEKS (James) : Ghost Ads

This is a new concept, a hotel-museum. The inn incorporates its archaeological heritage (artifacts, etc.) into a place where you can stay in Quebec. The collaboration follows 15 years of research.


Auberge Saint-Antoine

Here is a special collection of US Social Hygiene posters from the 1910s to the 1950s. You can search by decade, keywords, and/or subject.

More covers, this time from Popular mechanics from 1902 on upward.

List of Covers

I guess that this could be regarded as an art collection. Here are 857 covers of Esquire Magazine from 1933 to the present.


Esquire Cover Gallery

Etch-A-Sketch Art, and pop art at that.

Welcome to ETCHED IN TIME

Are there any wine museums out there? Here is a site featuring the "beauty" of wine labels.

Strat's Place .. 1000's of Wine Labels

A dozen and more different ways to make art out of a silly puzzle toy.


Rubik's Cube Art

Here's a great site for technology museums. Old Soviet and Russian radios.

Russian Old Radios

A new collection of books and journals (full text) from 1850-1950. "Subject
areas include applied arts and design; food and nutrition; child care and
development; housing and furnishings; hygiene; home management;
clothing and textiles; institutional management; and retail and consumer
studies. This archive, containing materials published between 1850 and
1950, is searchable by author, title, and keyword."



Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)

This site has an online speech bank, short audio clips from speeches, movies, sermons, etc., and 100 top American speeches.

American Rhetoric.com

This is an excellent informational site about coin operated arcade games.


Collecting old coin operated Arcade games pre-1977, Fortune tellers, Gun Rifle games, Cranes, Diggers, penny arcade

A collection of stereoscopic views of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The photographs range from the 1850s to the 1910s.

Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection

The one and only Wolfman Jack Museum!

Wolfmanjack.org - The Wolfman Jack Online Museum : Enter

An endangered languages database.


LSA/CELP Endangered Languages Data Summary

Everything you ever wanted to know about England and its history, from the collections of the British Museum.


Collect Britain > Putting History in Place

An excellent site on the volcanos and vulcanology of Canada.

Volcanoes of Canada

The Harvard Law School Library has about 1 million documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949) and is in the process of digitizing them to be accessed on this site.


This web site contains:
6755 digital photographs of pages of Case 1 trial documents and related evidence file documents (including all of the prosecution trial documents in the collection, two-thirds of the defendants' trial documents, and some of the NO evidence file documents).
Analytical data on all trial documents and related evidence file documents for NMT 1 (U.S.A. v. Karl Brandt et al.) and NMT 2 (U.S.A. v. Erhard Milch), and most of these documents for NMT 4 (U.S.A. v. Oswald Pohl et al.).
The keyed text of the first seven days of court proceedings in the Case 1 trial transcript (through December 13, 1946: approximately 500 pages).
A complete introduction to the project, the documents, and the trials worked on so far.
A search engine for all the documents that have been analyzed so far (5842 in all).
A search engine (including full-text queries) for that portion of the Case 1 transcript currently available.
Links between these various elements.



Nuremberg Trials Project

The Rock Paper Scissors Society was created as a harmless way of resolving disputes. Here you can read about their history, and explore their site.


About the World RPS Society

A document on the history of playing cards in Europe. The history includes the origins, gambling laws and other interesting facts.

Introduction of Playing Cards

This is a museum devoted to clay pipes. Located in Amsterdam, it houses archaeological collections, a research library, and does publications. The title translates to Pipe Cabinet, I think.

National Pipe Collection

Here is the College Park Aviation Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. It covers unique aircraft, a 1919 airmail hanger, and aviation history.

College Park Aviation Museum

Here is the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto, Canada. Here they have a variety of collections of shoes from ancient times to the present. The web site also has fun facts about shoes and footwear.

The Bata Shoe Museum

This is an ambitious project. A fully searchable online database of the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1674-1834. The entire database should be online by 2004, currently only 22,000 trials from 1414-1759 are present.


The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

A very interesting view of Victorian London, complete with ghosts, cemeteries, photographs, and a bibliography.

City of Shadows

Global Museum has an excellent jobs page, a wonderful bookshop and a lot of museum news. I highly recommend this enjoyable web site.

Global Museum

Great site for finding work in museums. Job search includes US and UK.


Museum Jobs - recruitment for museums, libraries, museums, galleries - job vacancies, internships

Here is Jim Davila's blog on Ancient Judaism. A lot of interesting information, including links to the Iraqi Museum debacle.


PaleoJudaica.com

Here is a collection of photographs and information on the Chinese in California, 1850-1925. The exhibit includes primary source materials as well as printed material such as broadsides, sheet music, etc.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (American Memory, Library of Congress)

This site allows one to get a close up view of the Unicorn Tapestries, using the mouse to magnify sections of it.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Unicorn Tapestries

The Detroit Publishing Company (DPC) online exhibit here at the Henry Ford Museum explores Western America as seen through the camera of William Henry Jackson. Included are photographs of the earthquake damage in San Francisco, and a pueblo in New Mexico.

Detroit Publishing Company Online Exhibit, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

This is a wonderful collection of Japanese maps from the 17th century onward. The Insight java Client program allows the user to download GIS functionality in order to fully understand the maps.

Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library, UC Berkeley

This medical museum is located in Cleveland, at Case Western Reserve University. They have an extensive research collection on medical history, and the online exhibits include information (and pictures) on the smallpox epidemic in Cleveland (1902), medical instruments, and dissection of humans. Not to be looked at during lunch. :(

Dittrick Medical History Center Online Exhibits

Here is the British National Railway Museum. It has collections, education, and other interesting links.

NRM - National Railway Museum

A web site devoted to collecting ticket stubs and their stories. I like the tag line: "Tales of the epemeral based on the flotsam of life."


Home | Ticketstubs

This site covers advertising in America. Drawn from Duke University's Special collections, the exhibit has a search engine as well.

EAA - Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920

Here is a virtual exhibit on biological clocks, and other interesting biological phenomenoma.

BioInteractive

Museum Jobs are just that, a place for the job seeker to sign up for free and search for work.

Museum Jobs - recruitment for museums, libraries, museums, galleries - job vacancies, internships

Pump clips are those identifying plastic tags attached to beer pumps. Here is an entire site devoted to them.

Pump Clips

One of only two such museums in the US, this one is in Chicago, and houses more than 70,000 radio and television programs and commercials.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications

This is the African American Museum and Library in Oakland, California. It has exhibitions and a wide ranging collection.
AAMLO

This is an incredible resource list of archive web sites and national park web sites! It covers the world and includes holdings of manuscripts, rare books, historical photographs and other primary sources.


Repositories of Primary Sources

Dennis does wonders with fractals. A great collection of images.

dennis wilen: fractals: adventures in numberland

A wonderful alphabetic zoo.

Bembo's Zoo

Here is the Sigmund Freud Museum, complete with videos, maps, and chronologies.

Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna Homepage

Here is a virtual museum devoted to some of the 7,000 immigrants who lived at 97 Orchard Street from 1863 to 1935. A virtual tour is offered, along with an audio presentation and an encyclopedia about the day to day lives.

The Official Site of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

You can virtually tour Jefferson's House, learn about the man himself, as well as see the grounds and the plantation.

Monticello—The Home of Thomas Jefferson

MONPA is the Museum of Non Primate Art. Ever wonder why cats paint? Or dance? Here's your chance to find out.

MONPA

A great site for anyone who loves drive-in theaters. You can find a list of theaters, the history (broken down by decade), old movie ads, and the concessions area.


Drive-In Theater

This is Robert Smith's Master Index of Maritime Museum Web sites (United States). You can search by state.

maritime museums

The Adirondack Museum chronicles the history and lifeways of the peoples in upstate New York.

Adirondack Museum -- Blue Mountain Lake New York

Here is a online museum devoted to old calculators.

The Old Calculators Web Museum

A great collection of squished coins from those coin machines found in amusement parks and museums.

Elongated Coins

A wonderful collection of Mountain Dew (the soda) memorabila, from the bottles and cans to various giveaways. And, all the photos can be used freely.

Mountain Dew Memorabilia Guide

This is the Museum of United States Essays and Proofs. Now that title certainly doesn't tell us anything, does it? The objects in question are early stamps.


The Museum Home Page

This is one of California's newest museums. It is located in Sacramento, and the web site explores the various sections of the museum.

The California Military Museum: Welcome to California Military History Online!

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

Historians and historical archaeologists are finding that road maos are a good source of information for early road and urban development.

Road Map Collectors Association

This museum covers the history of the American funeral, mourning customs, embalming, and funeral art.

Museum of Funeral Customs

The Lighthouse Museum information can be found under the Public Presentations link. An excellent site about a specific area.

St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum: Maritime Archaeology

ARTISTE is working on putting an image retrieval system together for the Web. This is an article about it.

Cultivate Interactive Issue 7: ARTISTE image retrieval system puts European galleries in the picture

An online museum dedicated to calculators. The site comes out of Germany.

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

An interesting photo collection of ghost towns.

Ghost Towns | Pictures of ghost towns in Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico | Ghost Town Gallery

This photo collection ranges from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Steam & Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad Digital Collection

This is an excellent museum of Anthropology.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Home Page

A collection of vintage British slot machines. (Doesn't anybody remember Pachinko?)

Melvyn Wright's World of Vintage Slot Machines

An illustrated history of cameras, many from Germany.

Classic Camera Reference

A history of lawnmowers from the UK.

British Lawnmower Museum