MUSEUMS |
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago The Adler opened on May 12, 1930, as the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, and continues today to interpret the exploration of the universe for the broadest possible audience. |
Art Institute of Chicago Has excellent opening page with animated changes of the art images. Included are activities for children, exploring “A Mysterious Mummy” and “Thousands of Dots” (about a painting by Georges Seurat). |
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis http://www.childrensmuseum.org/ The museum offers nontraditional learning opportunities for children and their families. Includes explorations of dinosaurs and visits to “Rex’s Lending Library” |
Exploratorium, San Francisco An online version of a hands-on museum in San Francisco that permits you to do your own cow’s eye dissection or learn the science behind a home run. Be sure to visit the “Learning Studio.” |
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Utterly fabulous site combining multiple museum holdings in an over 75,000-item database. Images are excellent, and you can send your comments and knowledge about the paintings to the museum. Requires plugins. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ |
Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Provides online exhibits about the Ice Ages and prehistoric mammals as well as a trip back to our Midwestern lands 16,000 years ago. |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art This fully-searchable database allows the user to search by subject, artist, keyword and more among over 45,000 records and 27,000 digital images. |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its collections include more than two million works of art—several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time—spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present. |
National Air and Space Museum Web Site, Washington, D.C.
A part of the Smithsonian Institution, this museum contains resources about flight, airplanes, and space travel. |
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. This site contains the largest collection of Canadian art in the world and a virtual tour. There are sections on Intuit Art, Contemporary Art, and European, American, and Asian Art. Requires plugins. |
National Gallery of Art for Kids. Explore stories in art, take a post card tour of one of the galleries, get directions for art activities and projects, and more. |
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States of America. European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper. Full-screen views of whole paintings and details allow close study. The site also includes information on artists and on the museum’s facilities and services. |
| National Gallery, London |
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, this museum is devoted to the protection and study of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. |
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The American Museum of Natural History offers a unique museum experience for kids from 8-12. Included are stories, games and interactive activities. |
Salem (Mass.) Witch Museum. Most kids study this area of history. “Haunted Happenings,” a commercial part of Salem stuff, is very neat. |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art. The museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of our country's artists, whose works are windows on the American experience. |
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. http://www.mnh.si.edu/ |
| State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg, Russia |
Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, Amsterdam. The site is readable in English. Excellent images that, when enlarged, are quite exciting to view. |
| The National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institute |
| Tokyo National Museum |
University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley. If you like paleontology, you’ll enjoy the online exhibits here (recommended for third grade and up). |
| Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam |
| WebMuseum, Paris. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ This is an exciting collection of resources on many subjects ranging from Paul Cézanne, to information on Paris, to medieval art treasures. Many images can be enlarged for closer viewing. |
Pitt County Museums |
| East Carolina Village of Yesteryear, The depicts life in Pitt County and Eastern North Carolina from 1840 to 1940. A country store with its wares, a traditional school house, a log church, farm machinery, and other artifacts from the period spark the interest of all who visit. Maintains seasonal hours and open by appointment for groups. |
| Greenville Museum of Art |
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phone: 252-524-4708 |
| Ledonia Wright African-American Cultural Center, The |
May Museum and Park, The Located in the National Register of Historic Places-Farmville Historic District, chronicles the cultural and commercial heritage of Farmville and Western Pitt County from colonial times to the present. extensive collection of 19th and 20th century quilts, which are displayed on a rotating basis. Phone: 919-753-5814 |
| Wellington B. Gray Gallery |