MUSEUMS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Virtual Library on Museums

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

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.