American Memory

A huge amount of material that creates a fascinating trip into various aspects of American History. It has a today in history section.

Alien Lightscapes

Adherents of the Terrestrian Heresy, and other interested beings, please use this symbolic link to access information appropriate to your belief structure.

WebMuseum

Formerly known as WebLouvre, an extensive collection of some of the world's greatest art and music.

The WebAcropol

A virtual tour of the Acropolis, worth the wait for the gorgeous pictures.

Michael C. Carlos Museum Galleries

Exhibits on the ancient Americas, ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, Asia, Greece and Rome, Sub-Saharan Africa and artworks on paper. Each exhibit includes images and commentary with a brief history of the period covered by the exhibit.

Smithsonian Gem & Mineral collection

Striking images of selected items in this world-famous collection. Here you can see the Star of Bombay, the Hope Diamond, and many other well-known pieces.

The Virtual Museum of Computing

Includes an eclectic collection of hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world.

A List of Museums on the Web

A list arranged by category for those who would like to explore the many museums on the web even further.

Andy Warhol Museum

Pop culture and soup cans. Be sure to take the tour and view his "self portraits".

Online Interactive Projects

The Internet in the Classroom site from NASA. Current projects include "Shuttle Team Online" Join the men and women who make the Shuttle fly and "Live From Mars" is following NASA's Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor missions.

Australian Botanical Garden

Everything green. Libraries, pictures, & tons more. Includes the Aboriginal uses of native plants, rare or threatened plants in Australia, and animals in the Botanic Gardens

The Field Museum

Dinosaurs may be gone but not forgotten. Interactive and graphics are good here. With exhibits and educational tools, this is a great site for learning about our beginnings.

Earth Viewer

Take an interactive look at the Mother Earth from space. Great planet and space pictures. You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.

Brooklyn Museum of Art.

The Collection online includes: Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Middle Eastern Art; the arts of Africa, Pacific, the Americas, & Asia; decorative arts painting & sculpture/prints, drawings, and photography

Exploratorium

San Francisco museum explores science and nature. Great fun and learn something too. See the electronic exhibits, web cams, past exhibitions, images, sounds, and more.

Hands-On Children's Museum

Interactive play here for kids of all ages. Lots of fun. The current exhibit theme is about the forest and the animals that live there.

London Science Museum

The Science Museum's latest Exhibition On-Line provides information on the Apollo 10 Command Module, on loan to the Museum from The National Air and Space Museum in the USA. The Exhibition features a Quicktime VR Movie of the inside of the command module, which allows you to pan through 360° and zoom in on the Astronauts controls. A cheap way to travel to London. Earth friendly .. no tickets needed.

Map Maker

Geography made fun. Will Fontanez to tell us how to get where we want to go with specialty maps according to the type of projection.

Museum of Paleontology

Dinosaurs are still popular and some good work was done here. They have organized the exhibits into three major "wings" of the museum: Phylogeny, Geology, and Evolution. Each of these sets of exhibits has had its own designers, and the different organization of each wing reflects this.

Renaissance Science

Early scientific thought and science from Galileo and Aristotle. It has early artist drawings and mpg files.

Safari Splash

Scientists, divers, and kids went on safari. Viewers in down-link sites around North America and Japan could speak directly to the Safari Explorers, while students in classrooms watched on television and e-mailed, faxed, or phoned questions to their newspaper, Safari Splash!

US Holocaust Museum

Holocaust facts and memorial. They have the full text of the U.S. State Department report on U.S. and Allied efforts to recover and restore gold and other assets stolen or hidden by Germany during World War II.

Views of the Solar System

Versions of this site are in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos. Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond.

Volcano World

Find out what events of volcanic significance happened on any date in history. The site has lesson plans for teachers, lessons and activities for students, status of erupting volcanos and information on volcanos on other planets.

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

Minorities (race, sex and disability) are active in all areas of science and engineering. Includes organizations, profiles, documents and biographies.

Virtual Library on Museums

View museums by country or subject. New sites are listed every day.

Challenger Learning Center

The Challenger Learning Centre Network was founded by the seven families of the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L), to continue the crew's educational mission to learn, to explore, and to inspire. Learn how they put it all together for missions in space.

Ocean Planet Online

Search the site with their excellent search tools. The tour is excellent and navigation is great. Fact sheets and lesson plans round out the site.