Thursday, November 28, 2002

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

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

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

dennis wilen: fractals: adventures in numberland
A wonderful alphabetic zoo.

Bembo's Zoo

Friday, November 15, 2002

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

Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna Homepage

Saturday, November 09, 2002

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

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

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

Sunday, October 20, 2002

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

maritime museums

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

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

Sunday, October 06, 2002

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

Tuesday, October 01, 2002

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!

Friday, September 20, 2002

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

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

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

Saturday, September 07, 2002

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