Museums

As the Internet grows, so does the online presence of museums; here are some of the more substantial museum websites.

Aboriginal People's Gallery
at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, Canada.

British Museum
All kinds of stuff are online at the British Museum website; be prepared to wander for hours. Be sure to explore Compass.

Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery
A newly renovated gallery at the Oriental Institute, contains a few photographs from collections dating between the predynastic and Arab conquest periods.

National Anthropological Archives
At the Smithsonian Institution, the NAA is a respository for manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.

Oriental Institute Museum
The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum website has images of some of this remarkable collection of Near Eastern artifacts.

Royal Ontario Museum
The website includes information from recent exhibits from cultures around the world.

Royal Treasures of Mesopotamia
the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania gathered artifacts from several museums to create a traveling exhibit which Director Thomas Hoving has called "the finest, most resplendent and magical works of art in all of America".

State Heritage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
From the State Heritage Museum and IBM, a website on the collections and history of the five-building museum. Includes virtual tours, presentations of the exhibits, and history of the museum. Russian and English.

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