Virtual Library

Museums Search

This page includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web services connected with museums around the world. If you would like your museum included in this directory, please consider maintaining a list of museum links for your country as part of VLmp. Please mail J.P.Bowen@reading.ac.uk if you would like to do this or if you know of relevant on-line information not included here.

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Items starting with have been recently added. Starred items marked have large collections and/or are especially recommended. If enough people ask for a star to be added to an item I will do so!

Australia

• ANU Classics Department Museum, Australian National University, Canberra. Part of ArtServe - 27,000 images of art and architecture, mainly from the Mediterranean area. (Requires registration and payment for full use.)
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Collections include Australian, Aboriginal, Asian, western and contemporary art, photography.
• Australian Museum, Sydney.
• Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
• La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne.
• Macleay Museum, Sydney. Natural history collection.
• Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. Natural and cultural heritage collections at several sites.
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Fine art.
• National Motorcycle Museum, Mitchell, Canberra.
• National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
• Physics Museum, University of Queensland.
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian social history. Australia's largest museum.
• Queensland Museum, University of Queensland. See arachnology homepage, including the Red Spider.
• Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Point Cook, Victoria.
• Sydney Jewish Museum. The Holocaust and Australian Jewish history, including related links.
• Victorian Racing Museum, Caulfield, Victoria. Horse racing.
• Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth.
• Western Australian Museum, Perth.

• Australian Museums On Line (AMOL). See National Directory and Museum Search.
• Australian University Museums Online (AUMOL). Combined catalogue of university collections. Search the AUMOL databases.
• Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS).
• Museums and Collections at Macquarie University.
• Victoria museums.

Belgium

• Félicien Rops Museum, Namur. Covers the work of the artist F. Rops (1833-1898).
• Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance.
• Musée d'Art Religieux et d'Art Mosan (MARAM), Liège. (In French.)
• Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Photography museum. (In French.)
• Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve, Université catholique de Louvain. See also ÉOLE database on Belgian cultural heritage. (In French, also English, Dutch and German.)
• Museum of Natural Sciences, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, Brussels. (Also in French and Dutch.)
• Royal Museum of the Army and Military History. (In Dutch, French and English soon.)

• Brussels museums.
• Namur museums.

Bulgaria

• University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.

• Museum towns.
• Sofia museums.

China

• Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, Henan Province. (In Chinese and English.)

• Beijing museums (see also here)

  Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution" and China '89.

Croatia

• Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia. Part of the Art Plus site. (See information in English.)

Czech Republic

• Czech Pharmaceutical Museum.
• Moravian Museum, Brno. Archaeology, history, numismatics, literature, music, theatre, geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and entomology.
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
• National Museum, Prague. (In Czech and English.)
• National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.

• Galleries contacts and addresses.
• Prague. See also Museums and Galleries Image Tour.
• Association of Czech, Moravian ana Silesian Museums (AMG). Includes a directory of Czech museums and galleries, and a calendar of exhibitions. (In Czech only.)

Denmark

• Danish Museum of Electricity. (In Danish, English and German.)
• Immigrantmuseet, Stavnsholtvej. (In Danish.)
• Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund. (A.k.a. Isac Dinesen, also in Danish and English.)
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting. (In English and Danish.)
• Museet på Koldinghus, Koldinghus. (In Danish.)
• Museums of Natural History, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. Botany, geology and zoology. Includes searchable botanical specimen database. (25,000 records.)
• National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. (Also in Danish.) See also related museums.
• North Sea Museum. (Nordsømuseet, in Danish.)
• Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Archeological (especially Egyptian) artefacts, Impressionist and other paintings. (Some information in English.)
• Skive Art Museum. (Mainly Danish, some information in Dutch, English and German.)
• Steno Museum, University of Aarhus, Århus. (Also in Danish.) History of science and medicine.
• Struer Museum. History of the town. (Also in Danish and German.)
• Telephone Museum, Hellerup. (Also in Danish.)

• Cultural institutions (including many museums) under the Ministry of Culture, from Kulturnet Danmark.
• Storstrøm museums. (In Danish, English and German planned.)

Estonia

• Estonian Literary Museum. (Also in English.)
• Estonian Maritime Museum (Meremuuseum), Tallinn. See also unofficial information.
• Estonian National Museum, Tartu.
• Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn. (In Estonian.)
• Museum of Viljandi. (Also in English.)

• Museum search.
• Museums list. (In Estonian.)
• Tallin museums. (In Estonian.)

Fiji

• Fiji Museum.

Finland

• Aine Art Museum, Tornio. Finnish visual arts from 1814. (Also in Finnish.) See also Ars Nordica publications.
• Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä. Specializes in architecture.
• Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
• Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.)
• Helsinki City Art Museum. Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.)
• Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.)
• Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä. Cultural history. (Also in Finnish, German and Swedish.)
• The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)

• Finnish museums information including a alphabetical list of museums (also ordered by location and by type) from the Finnish Museums Association. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)
• Nordic museum links (Finland).
• Tampere.

France

• Château de Versailles, near Paris. (In French and English.) Includes The Carriage Museum.
• Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris. (In French and English.)
• Electropolis, Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy. (In French, English and German.)
• French Ministry of Culture. (Mainly in French, some English.) See:
  • The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition. (In English and French.)
  • Documentation, including several databases. (In French.) E.g.:
    • Joconde database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.
    • MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des musées de France (DMF).
    • Muséofile - national database of French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.). Also searchable by location, collection type and services offered.
  • Archaeological discovery of a decorated Palaeolithic cave near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (announced 17 January 1995). An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of damage.
  • The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon. Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies. (In French and English.)
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. (Also in French.)
• The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. (Also in French, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) See also Louvre.edu educational resources (by subscription, in French), virtual visit, and here.
• Musée des arts et métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)
• Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. (In French and English.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. (In French.)
• Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and English.)
• Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See collections catalogue including searchable fish catalogue. (In French and English.)
• Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence. (Also in French.)
• Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris. (In French and English.)
• Videomuseum. (In English soon - September 1997.)

• Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)
• Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.
• Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
• Maritime museums.
• Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

Greece

• The Acropolis Museum, Athens. Situated on the Acropolis.
• Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Houses the Alexander, WWW Server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
• National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
• Rhodes Jewish Museum, Rhodes.
• Technical Museum of Thessaloniki. (Also in Greek.)
• WebAcropol, Athens. A virtual tour of the Acropolis.

• Cultural map of Greece and list of museums. Part of the Hellenic Culture information server from the Hellenic Ministry Of Culture. (In English and Greek.)
• Hellenic Culture including Macedonia and Thrace.
• Hellenic Museums by type. Comprehensive collection of images, etc.
• Athens.
• Thessaloniki.

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Museum of Art.
• Hong Kong Museum of History.
• Hong Kong Science Museum.
• Hong Kong Space Museum.

• Museums listed by the Hong Kong Tourist Association

Iceland

• Hafnarfjörður Museum, Hafnarfjörður. Former residence of Bjarni Sívertsen.
• House of Merchants Folk Museum, Eyrarbakki. One of Iceland's oldest buildings. (In Icelandic, English, Danish and German.)
• National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík. (In Icelandic and English.)
• National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík.

• Museums and libraries in Reykjavík.

India

• Indian Museum (unofficial), Calcutta.
• National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
• Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay.
• Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi.

• Indian museums.
• Forts and palaces including the Taj Mahal.

Ireland

• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
• Dungarvan Museum, Waterford.
• The Garda Museum, Dublin Castle. Museum of Ireland's national police force.
• Guinness Hopstore, Dublin. Includes a Transport Museum section.
• Hunt Museum, University of Limerick. Art and antiquities.
• National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
• National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

Israel

• Babylonian Jewry Museum, Or-Yehuda. History of the Jews of Babylon.
• Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv. Includes a virtual exhibition.
• Edith and Rubin Hecht Museum, Haifa University. Archaeology and paintings.
• Ghetto Fighters' House Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Western Galilee. (Also in English.)
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Includes Dead Sea Scrolls - Shrine of the Book, Judaica and Jewish ethnography, fine art, Archaeological Museum ­ Rockefeller, East Jerusalem Art Center ­ Paley, and Ticho House. Take a virtual tour.
• Israel National Museum of Science, Daniel and Matilde Recanati Center, Haifa.
• Jerusalem Mosaic. Information, exhibits and images about Jerusalem.
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Italy

• Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia. Art collection of Amedeo Lia and his family, founded in 1995. (Also in Italian and German.)
• Archaeological Museum of Bologna. Egyptian, Etruscan and other collections. (Also in Italian.)
• Astronomical Museum, Bologna.
• CeSMAP Study Centre and Prehistoric Art Museum, Pinerolo. (Also in Italian.)
• Institute and Museum History of Science, Florence. (Also in Italian.)
• Italian Web Museum. Virtual marketing!
• Keat-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets.
• Monumentale Cemetery of Milano, Milan. Biggest museum of sculptures in Italy. (Also in Italian.)
• Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari. (In Italian.)
• Museo dell'Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata. Museums of the Photographic Image and of the Visual Arts.
• Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Includes the Farnese picture collection. (Also in Italian.)
• Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza. Ceramics. (In Italian.)
• Museo Morandi, Bologna. Works of art by Giorgio Morandi. (Also in Italian.)
• Museum of the Physics Department, Institute of Physics of Naples. An exhibition of early instruments of the Institute. (In English and Italian.)
• Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Florence. Natural history museum. Anthropology, botany, geology and paleontology, mineralogy and zoology. (In English and Italian.)
• National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Milan. (Also in Italian.)
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Modern art. An outpost of the Guggenheim Museum,
• Revoltella Museum, Modern Art Gallery, Trieste. (Also in Italian.)
• Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. (Also in Italian.) See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).
• The Virtual Museum of Pisa Shockwave for multimedia. (In Italian and English.)
• Wooden Toy exhibition, Padua.

• Art exhibition and museums including Assisi, Pisa and Pompeii. (In English and Italian.)
• Musei e Gallerie Statali, Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze. Florentine museum information, including database access, from Florence. (In Italian.)

Kuwait

• Tareq Rajab Museum, Hawelli.

Macau

• Macau Museum of Art. (Also in Chinese and Portuguese.)
• The Museum of Macau, opened in 1998 in the old fortress. (Also in Chinese and Portuguese.)

Malaysia

• Maritime Archaeology Museum, Malacca.

Netherlands

• 7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.
• Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. (In Dutch and English). See information on the house. See also the travelling exhibit Anne Frank In the World: 1929-1945 from Anne Frank Online and the Virtual Anne Frank House.
• Centraal Museum Utrecht. The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands, including historical works of art and the Rietveld Schröder house (1924). (Mainly in Dutch.)
• Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
• Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Art collection including Mondrian and Escher. (In Dutch.)
• Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven. Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923). (Also in Dutch.)
• Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University. Archectural Guide and Gallery including Museums.
• Limburgs Museum, Limburg. Includes multimedia using RealAudio. (In Dutch.)
• Museon, The Hague. Science and natural history: geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology physics and technology, ethnology. (In English and Dutch.)
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine. (In English and Dutch.)
• Museum Gevangenpoort, The Hague. (In Dutch.)
• National Museum of Coins and Medals, Leiden. (Also in Dutch.)
• Natural History Museum, Maastricht. Includes a virtual tour and kid's museum with a quiz. (In English and Dutch.)
• Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg. Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design. (In English and Dutch.)
• Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. (In English and Dutch.)
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Not yet on-line.)
• The Software Museum, Amsterdam. Early computer software disk directory listings.
• Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country. Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave. (In English and Dutch.)
• Technical Museum of the University of Delft. (In Dutch.)
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Fossils and minerals, scientific instruments, medals and coins, paintings, prints and drawings. Oldest public museum and the first virtual museum in the country. (Also in Dutch, French and German.)
• University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art. (In English and Dutch.)
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Mainly artworks by Vincent Van Gogh. (In English and Dutch.)
• Zuiderzeemuseum. (In Dutch.)

• Amsterdam museums.
• Eindhoven museums. (Dutch and some English.)
• Museums in the Netherlands and Search for Museums, Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT). Succinct information, comprehensive coverage.
• Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums. See English information including a directory of all museums. An excellent, comprehensive resource.
• De Museumserver. Dutch museums on the Internet. (Mostly Dutch, some English.) Good, but slowed by use of Java.
• Musea in Nederland. Links sorted by name, type and location. (In Dutch only.)
• North Holland museums (also by city.
• Museumboot, Amsterdam. Guided boat tour around major museums.

New Zealand

• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
• Auckland WebMuseum. Online museum presenting Maori culture.
• Howick Historical Village, Pakuranga, Auckland. A living museum recreating a British immigrant village of the Fencible settlement.
• Matakohe Kauri Museum, Northland. Story of the Kauri tree, its timber and its gum.
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Art, history, Maori culture and the natural environment. Now available from New Zealand itself; a new museum opening in 1998.
• National Maritime Museum, Auckland.
• New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, Wanaka Airport. Includes links to other aviation museums on the Web.
• Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex, Christchurch.

Norway

• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
• Museums of Natural History, Tøyen, Oslo.
• Northern Lights Planetarium.
• Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
• Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo. (In English, French and Norwegian.)
• Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo. (Also in Norwegian.)
• Tromsø Museum. (Also in Norwegian.)

• Museums in alphabetical order, by region, etc., from Museumsnet Norway. Comprehensive list, including hyperlinks where available. (In Norwegian, English, French and German soon.)
• Norway museum links

Poland

• Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw. (In English and Polish.)
• The Distillery Museum, Lancut. Winner of the European Museum of the Year Award.
• Museum of Art, Lodz.
• Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium, Gdynia. (Also in Polish.)
• Saltmine "Wieliczka", Museum of Cracow salt-works, Wieliczka.
• Wawelu Royal Castle, Cracow. (In English, German and Polish.)

• Museums, Lublin. (Also in Polish.)

Singapore

• Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum. Singaporean artist whose works incorporate images, sculptures, poetry and music. Includes on-line souvenir shop and toilet.
• National Museum of Singapore, National heritage Board. Includes Asia Civilisations Museum, Singapore History Museum and Singapore Art Museum. See also shop.
• National University of Singapore museums. Includes the Lee Kong Chian Art Museum of Chinese Art and the Ng Eng Teng Gallery of sculpture and art.
• Singapore Philatelic Museum. Stamps.

Slovakia

• Povazske Museum, Zilina. History of the Slovak tinker's trade. (Also in Slovak.)
• Slovak National Museum, Bratislava. (Also in Slovak.)

• Slovak museums.

Slovenia

• Museum of Modern History, Ljubljana. (In English and Slovene.)
• National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana. Archaeology, history, applied arts, drawings and graphics.
• Technical Museum of Slovenia, Bistra, Borovnica. Traffic, agriculture, textile, electricity, forestry, wood processing, hunting, fishing.

Taiwan

• National Palace Museum. (In English and Chinese.)
• The World Religions Museum, Taipei. (In English and Chinese.)

Thailand

• Bank of Thailand Museum.
• Rama IX Art Museum Foundation, Bankok.

Turkey

• Interactive Museum of Turkey. See virtual galleries.
• Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture.
• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul. History and development of industry. (Also in English.)
• Topkapi Palace Museum.

• Istanbul museums.

United Arab Emirates

• Ajman Museum, Ajman. Historic fortress.
• Dubai Museum. Housed in Al-Fahidi Fort, thought to be Dubai's oldest building.

Vatican City

• Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani). See also Christus Rex virtual exhibits containing many images of the Vatican City, Sistine Chapel and Raphael Stanzas and Loggias. (Unofficial.)