Tuesday, March 23, 2004

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

Anthracite Museum Home Page

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

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

Thursday, February 26, 2004

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

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

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

Friday, January 16, 2004

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

Sunday, November 16, 2003

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

Saturday, November 15, 2003

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


moab

Friday, November 14, 2003

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

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

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

Friday, October 17, 2003

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.


Monday, October 13, 2003

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