Museums and the Web 2009 Conference

Museums and the Web is an annual conference. The speakers are often web developers and designers working with museums and heritage programs. Here, you can see the prekiminary program and learn more about the conference.


Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009)

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