Museum Blogs

Image by Funky64 (www.lucarossato.com) via FlickrThere is a new place to search for museum blogs now! Alltop is a blog directory and has recently added the category of Museums. Here you can read and explore both museum blogs and news about museums.

Museums in Croatia

Image via WikipediaDid you know that Croatia has a Maritime Museum in Dubrovnik? Not only that, but they have a number of museums, including an archaeological one, and the websites are in English.

http://www.mdc.hr/dubrovnik/eng/index.html

Living History in Tennessee

Image by slodocents via Flickr
This living history museum covers the story of Southeast Tennessee from the Cherokee Indians and the early pioneers, all the way to 1940. They have a large antique glassware collection as well.

McMinn County Living Heritage Museum

MuseumStuff.com has again started listing museum shops that are available online. Take a look at the Heard Museum for fine gift ideas and American Indian crafts,


Online Museum Shops : MuseumStuff.com

Celebrities, animals. humor, this museum has it all and more! Click on the toilet to visit a random toilet.

The Toilet Museum - The Home of Toilet Art, Humor, and Fun Facts.

One of my favorite museums now has an exhibition catalog available. They have a great collection of art that has ended up in the trash and rescued by their volunteers.

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA)

The Provincetown Art Association and Museum has a series of podcasts at PodcastGo. Podcasts are simply audio files that you can listen to either on your computer or MP3 player.

podcastGOMuseum : Local Museums: PAAM

I always wondered where the name Hadrosaurus came from. Here is the answer, it was the first actual dinosaur fossil skeleton excavated that led to the study of dinosaurs (at least, according to this website).


Hadrosaurus.com -- Official Haddonfield Dinosaur Committee Site

The pineapple is not native to Hawaii as many people seem to think. It is a native of Peru and is a type of cactus.

Here is a short social history of this fruit and how it came to be linked to the idea of hospitality.

Social History of the Pineapple

Courtesy of eWeek, here is the Museum of Computer Disasters. I particularly like the torched Mac (a.k.a. Roasted Apple).


DriveSavers' Museum of Computer Disasters

The Global Museum is an excellent resource for museum news, resources, podcasts, museums, jobs in museums, and an online bookshop. They have an ezine, as well as a list of accredited museum studies courses.

Global Museum

Museum Stuff is a wonderful museum web directory. You can search by US state, topic, artist, or museum name. It also has a category for museum shops, articles, virtual museums, and games.

MuseumStuff.com : 1000's of Museums Online : Best Art and History Educational Websites

Musematic is a museum blog all about museums and and trends. It has several authors and contributors, all experts in the field.


Musematic

Pongo appears to be a type of clay. This site features a collection of figurines made out of pongo. Great fun.


pongomania

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has an exhibit on American comic books.

UCLA Hammer Museum: Masters of American Comics

Would you believe that there is a National Museum of Dentistry? It is apparently the official museum of the dental profession in the U.S. and has a special exhibit on saliva (oh, goody!).


Dr. Samuel D Harris National Museum of Dentistry

It's the OZ Museum! This is a real museum dedicated to all things Oz, including all the Baum books, information on earlier movies (would you believe Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man?). They have a great online gift shop!


The OZ Museum - Wamego, Kansas

From the official Time.gov site, here are a series of exhibits (that look like they are links to other sites) all about time.


Educational exhibits about time, clocks, daylight saving, and calendars

A collection of vintage cigarette lighters (along with his want list).


Lighters

An excellent guide to all the museums of Greece, ranging from history and archaeology, to art, science, and fashion. A well designed web site, that really makes it a joy to use.

Greece Museums Guide - An online guide for Greek museums and cultural institutions of Greece

NNDB could be called the Who's Who for the rest of us. A wonderful guide to people both alive and dead, famous, infamous, and not so famous, and all their connections.


NNDB: Tracking the entire world

This site has a short history of the vacuum cleaner and has exhibits and information on specific types and manufacturers of vacuums.

The Vintage Vacuum Cleaner Museum

MuseumSpot is a fun site that covers museums, trivia questions, exhibits, top museums, and spotlighted museums. In addition, you can search museums by speciality, artist, country, state, city, and name.


MuseumSpot.com: Museums, aquariums, zoos, art museums, national parks & more.

The Annapolis Maritime Museum is located in Maryland. They are asking for help in identifying a 1930s (?) truck.


Annapolis Maritime Museum - Home

The Antique Boat Museum is in Clayton, New York, and has a lot of wonderful pictures. They also have a calender of events and an excellent collection of links.

museum - antique boat - antique boat museum

The San Diego Natural History Museum is hosting a traveling exhibit on CHOCOLATE!! Not only do you get the history of the sweet, but on Sundays they have a chocolate tasting!


SDNHM: Chocolate exhibition

Here is the Museum of Oranges in Spain. it covers the history of the orange/citrus industry in Valencia.


Museo-Archivo de la Naranja

MuseumsToday is from the same person who crafted the wonderful MuseumStuff.com site. MT lets you see all the current news and links for museums.


Museum News and Resources - MuseumsToday.com

AltaMira Press is selling some of its older local history and Museum Studies titles for just $10!


Welcome to the AltaMira Press Website

Plimoth Plantation is a wonderful living history museum. The re-enactors take on the roles of the original Pilgrims and cannot be shaken from them. The village itself has a slight ammonia smell to it, as if it was lived in year around.



Plimoth Plantation

The Israel Museum has a comprehensive site. Run your mouse along the banners and you can find everything from their collections, current exhibits, the archaeology wing, and basic information. The site is in Hebrew and Russian as well.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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