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Nat'l Security Agency: National Cryptologic Museum
On this site one can find the National Security Agency's history of cryptology, some online exhibits, and sections on mathematics, education, and more.
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Australian Designers at Work
The Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia, hosts an online exhibit about Australian designers. Visitors can explore careers in design by following links to each of six profiles on designers representing distinct design professions.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Chicago: Christmas Around the World and Holidays
This interactive museum will help students explore Christmas traditions, trees specifically, from around the world.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Exhibit Design Challenge
From the San Francisco 49er's Museum Education Program which promotes STEAM concepts, students construct a three dimensional (3-D) artifact stand that is the exact replica of "The Catch" which is 70 inches high. Emphasis is placed on...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art: Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of Middle East
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. These...
Yale University
Yale Peabody Museum: Hina Matsuri: The Doll Festival
A slideshow of fifteen porcelain Japanese dolls at the Peabody Museum. You can see the dolls and learn about Hina Matsuri, the traditional doll festival that displays them.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The November 1938 Pogroms
From the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, this resource describes the anti-semitic pogroms, or race riots, in Germany on Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) in November of 1938.
Other
Museum of Musical Instruments: Woody Guthrie
This interesting site features the life and music of Woody Guthrie. Explore this online exhibit showcasing one of America's great folk singers.
The Tech Interactive
Tech Museum of Innovation: Color
This section of the Tech Museum of Innovation on color is divided into sections including hue, saturation, brightness, and go wild. Each section includes information as well as learning activities.
The Tech Interactive
Tech Museum: The Revolutionaries
With a profile of eighteen revolutionaries in the area of science and technology, The Revolutionaries site from Tech Museum highlights the pioneers of innovation in Silicon Valley.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham
At this site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Robert Cottingham takes you on a visual tour across America with his works of art. View his complete collection that showcases commercial signs.
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Guggenheim Bilbao
This is the home page of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Click on the "hamburger" in the top right of the page to access the museum's collections, exhibitions, and activities.
Burke Museum
Burke Museum: Earthquake Science
This section of the Burke Museum's online exhibit on earthquakes and natural disasters focuses on the science of earthquakes. Topics that are covered include plate motion, heat, interior of the earth, and more.
Burke Museum
Burke Museum: Earthquake Preparedness
Part of the Burke Museum's online exhibition titled "The Big One" which focuses on earthquakes and quake science, this site looks at safety precautions to take when dealing with earthquakes.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Bumble Bees
As part of the museum's larger exhibit on spiders and insect, this site examines various types of bumble bees along with their scientific name, common name, and body structure (coloring).
Other
New Brunswick Museum: City in Transition Project
In this lesson, students research Saint John history using the materials in the New Brunswick Museum's virtual exhibit.
ArtLex
Art Lex: What Is a Museum?
An entry that defines museums and details their cultural significance, from the ArtLex dictionary of art. Includes links to major museums around the world, pictures of museums famous for their architecture, and other related information.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Picturing the Museum
Archive of historical photographs of the museum's dioramas and exhibits from the early twentieth century offers a glimpse into the work of exhibition designers from eras past.
Other
Museum With No Frontiers: Exhibition Trails
Take a virtual visit to eleven different Islamic Art in the Mediterranean Exhibition Trails. Discover artifacts, monuments, and archaeological sites in their natural environment.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Homepage
This site from the Florida Museum of Natural History gives the current events, information about the museum, exhibits and public programs, research and collections, links, etc. to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Other
The Moscow Kremlin Museum
The Moscow Kremlin Museum features famous Russian exhibitions, museum collections, library and history. Website also contains virtual exhibitions (i.e., the crowns of Russian tsars), virtual tours and maps of the Kremlin.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Underground Adventure
The Chicago Field Museum provides a comprehensive soil education project covering topics such as soil structure and organisms living underground. Students can use the site for research or do the full-blown project, where they establish a...
The British Museum
British Museum: Artists of the Modern Middle East
The online home of "Word into Art," an exhibition mounted by the British Museum that details the way in which artists from across the Middle East and North Africa use written language in their art. The exhibition follows four thematic...
New York Times
New York Times: Beauty and Humor (An Exhibition of the Work of Rudolf Stingel)
In a narrated slideshow, art critic Roberta Smith discusses the work of Rudolf Stingel, whose large-scale works in a variety of media, including Styrofoam, were showcased in a cleverly interactive exhibit at the Whitney Museum of...