virtual museums

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• - Displays over one thousand items. Sort by authors or categories. [Russian and English]
  
• - Image database containing over 20,000 prints, maps, drawings, paintings and sculpture from the collections of The Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery.
  
• - Features a small selection of medals, plaques and reliefs. Includes thumbnail images.
  
• - Features the Christchurch Art Gallery in New Zealand. View project images and listen to streaming audio.
  
• - Offers tour of exhibition dedicated to the ancient cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Includes details. [Italian and English]
  
• - Featuring the Internet's only AOL CD rom search engine. Browse collection online.
  
• - Features files, one for each painting exhibited in the gallery, and images. Includes search engine, visitor information and online ticket reservation service.
  
• - Diversity of art by Canadian artists is the medium for the exploration of history and heritage, identity, culture, geography, and politics. [English and French]
  
• - Features images of works produced in the 20th and the 21st centuries by artists with diverse cultural backgrounds.
  
• - Projects, visual lectures and texts relating to high and low tech dramatization of historical information by using interactive compact information carriers. Subjects range from revolutions, aerial bombardments, psycho-geography, visual language and shama
  
• - Offers links to the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection with over 9,500 images of works of the Gallery's permanent collection, interactive games, resource center for teachers. [French and English]
  
• - Provides access to search engine, news, biographies of artists and their works.
  
• - Provides access to artistic and cultural experiences through the online display of American fine art. Includes biographical information and images.
  
• - Access and search data bases which include paintings, sculptures, plaster casts, drawings, prints, historic photographs, archives and historic books.
  
• - Features modern, contemporary and Latin American art. [English, French, and Spanish]
  
• - Features garments arranged in a timeline from the 18th century to the 1920's.
  
• - Virtual museum of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1800). With commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists, and guided tours.
  
• - Features an exhibit devoted to the life and art of the Mexican muralist and artist. [Spanish and English]
  
• - Includes portraits, WPA art, photographs, furniture, sculpture, graphics and architecture.
  
• - Dedicated to the presentation of indigenous costume, the people, their location and their traditions.
  
• - Displays the works of one of the Swedish masters of neo-impressionism and Cézanne-style cubism. [English and French]
  
• - Illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, graphic arts, biographies, natural science, technology and history.
  
• - Features biography and galleries of his metal on metal paintings. [English and French]
  
• - Features sixty panoramic inside and outside views of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
  
• - Visual review of items seen on the web which have been associated with the artist. Includes bibliographies and musical selections.
  
• - Features totalitarian art (Socialist realism, nationalsocialist realism) and critical modern paintings.
  
• - Features a collection of 27 hand-made quilts from around Florida.
  
• - Find lists of inductees beginning with the year 2000. Includes details of membership and a nomination form.
  
• - Online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art. Includes comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews.
  
• - Provides a virtual tour of late 20th century and 21st century handbags. Provides a brief history of the bags and their designers.
  
• - More than 20,000 works and 50,000 pictures from some of the major institutions in the world. [In French with English translation].
  
• - Digital exhibition of rarely-seen materials that belonged to the author. Includes backgrounds on the items, chronology, tips for teachers, and research information.
  
• - Features a private collection of music instruments. Provides details of each instrument, its origin, history, use, and present condition. [Danish, German, and English]
  
• - Features sculptures and food decorations from the court of Louis XIV at Versailles and displayed at the Getty Research Institute Gallery in Los Angeles, California, United States from February 26 through May 21, 2000.