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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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Museums and exhibitions
The museums in this list are categorized by country/continent.
Museums in some
countries are listed on separate pages for space
reasons.
In general,
information and exhibits are in English unless otherwise stated.
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Japan
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Latin America
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Lebanon -
Luxembourg -
Macau -
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Morocco -
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Netherlands -
New Zealand -
Nicaragua -
Norway -
Panama -
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Russia
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Venezuela
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!
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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.)
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The
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Collections include
Australian, Aboriginal, Asian, western and contemporary art,
photography.
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Australian Museum, Sydney.
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Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
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La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne.
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Macleay Museum, Sydney.
Natural history collection.
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Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
Natural and cultural heritage collections at several sites.
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Fine art.
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National Motorcycle Museum, Mitchell, Canberra.
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National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
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Physics Museum, University of Queensland.
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Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian
social history.
Australia's largest museum.
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Queensland Museum,
University of Queensland.
See
arachnology homepage, including the Red Spider.
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Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Point Cook, Victoria.
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Sydney Jewish Museum.
The Holocaust and Australian Jewish history,
including
related links.
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Victorian Racing Museum, Caulfield, Victoria.
Horse racing.
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Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth.
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Western Australian Museum, Perth.
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Australian Museums On Line (AMOL).
See
National Directory and
Museum Search.
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Australian University Museums Online (AUMOL).
Combined catalogue of
university collections.
Search the AUMOL databases.
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Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS).
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Museums and Collections at Macquarie University.
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Victoria museums.
Croatia
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Czech Pharmaceutical Museum.
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Moravian Museum, Brno.
Archaeology, history, numismatics, literature, music, theatre,
geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and entomology.
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Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
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National Museum, Prague.
(In
Czech and English.)
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National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.
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Galleries contacts and addresses.
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Prague.
See also
Museums and Galleries Image Tour.
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Association of Czech, Moravian ana Silesian Museums (AMG).
Includes a directory of Czech museums and galleries,
and a calendar of exhibitions.
(In Czech only.)
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Danish Museum of Electricity.
(In
Danish, English and German.)
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Immigrantmuseet, Stavnsholtvej.
(In Danish.)
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Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund.
(A.k.a.
Isac Dinesen,
also
in Danish and English.)
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting.
(In
English and Danish.)
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Museet på Koldinghus, Koldinghus.
(In Danish.)
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Museums of Natural History, Faculty of Science,
University of Copenhagen.
Botany, geology and zoology.
Includes searchable botanical
specimen database.
(25,000 records.)
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National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
(Also in Danish.)
See also related
museums.
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North Sea Museum.
(Nordsømuseet, in Danish.)
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Archeological (especially Egyptian) artefacts,
Impressionist and other paintings.
(Some information in
English.)
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Skive Art Museum.
(Mainly Danish, some information in Dutch,
English
and German.)
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Steno Museum, University of Aarhus, Århus.
(Also in Danish.)
History of science and medicine.
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Struer Museum.
History of the town.
(Also in Danish and German.)
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Telephone Museum, Hellerup.
(Also in Danish.)
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Cultural institutions (including many museums)
under the
Ministry of Culture, from
Kulturnet Danmark.
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Storstrøm museums.
(In Danish, English and German planned.)
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Aine Art Museum, Tornio.
Finnish visual arts from 1814.
(Also in
Finnish.)
See also
Ars Nordica publications.
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Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä.
Specializes in architecture.
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Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
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Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.
Fine art.
(In
English, Finnish and Swedish.)
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Helsinki City Art Museum.
Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city.
(In
English, Finnish and Swedish.)
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Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
(In
English, Finnish and Swedish.)
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Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä.
Cultural history.
(Also in
Finnish, German and Swedish.)
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The
National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
(Also in
Finnish and Swedish.)
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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.)
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Nordic museum links (Finland).
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Tampere.
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Château de Versailles, near Paris.
(In French and
English.)
Includes
The Carriage Museum.
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Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris.
(In French and
English.)
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Electropolis,
Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy.
(In French,
English and German.)
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French Ministry of Culture. (Mainly in French,
some
English.) See:
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Centre Georges Pompidou,
Musée national d'art moderne.
(Also
in French.)
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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.
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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.)
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Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
(In French and
English.)
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
(In French.)
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.
(In French.)
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.
(In French.)
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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.)
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Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
See
collections catalogue including searchable
fish catalogue.
(In French and English.)
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Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence.
(Also in French.)
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Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris.
(In French and
English.)
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Videomuseum. (In
English soon - September 1997.)
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Art and culture - major French museums guide.
(In
French, English and Italian.)
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Museums,
exhibitions and
monuments/museums map of
Paris.
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Museums of
L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs
(UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
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Maritime museums.
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Giverny and Vernon museums.
See also
Claude Monet's
garden.
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Babylonian Jewry Museum, Or-Yehuda.
History of the Jews of Babylon.
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Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv.
Includes a
virtual exhibition.
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Edith and Rubin Hecht Museum, Haifa University.
Archaeology and paintings.
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Ghetto Fighters' House
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum,
Western Galilee.
(Also in
English.)
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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.
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Israel National Museum of Science,
Daniel and Matilde Recanati Center, Haifa.
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Jerusalem Mosaic.
Information, exhibits and images about Jerusalem.
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia.
Art collection of Amedeo Lia and his family, founded in 1995.
(Also in
Italian and German.)
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Archaeological Museum of Bologna.
Egyptian, Etruscan and other collections.
(Also in
Italian.)
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Astronomical Museum, Bologna.
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CeSMAP Study Centre and Prehistoric Art Museum, Pinerolo.
(Also in
Italian.)
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Institute and Museum History of Science, Florence.
(Also in Italian.)
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Italian Web Museum.
Virtual marketing!
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Keat-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome.
Visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets.
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Monumentale Cemetery of Milano, Milan.
Biggest museum of sculptures in Italy.
(Also in Italian.)
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari.
(In Italian.)
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Museo dell'Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali,
Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata.
Museums of the Photographic Image and of the Visual Arts.
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Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.
Includes the Farnese picture collection.
(Also in Italian.)
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Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza.
Ceramics.
(In Italian.)
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Museo Morandi, Bologna.
Works of art by Giorgio Morandi.
(Also in Italian.)
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Museum of the Physics Department, Institute of Physics of Naples.
An exhibition of early instruments of the Institute.
(In English and Italian.)
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Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Florence.
Natural history museum.
Anthropology, botany, geology and paleontology, mineralogy and zoology.
(In English and Italian.)
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National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci,
Milan.
(Also
in Italian.)
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Modern art.
An outpost of the
Guggenheim Museum,
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Revoltella Museum, Modern Art Gallery, Trieste.
(Also in
Italian.)
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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).
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The Virtual Museum of Pisa
Shockwave for multimedia.
(In Italian and English.)
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Wooden Toy exhibition, Padua.
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Art exhibition and museums
including Assisi, Pisa and Pompeii.
(In English and Italian.)
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Musei e Gallerie Statali,
Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze.
Florentine museum information, including database access,
from Florence.
(In Italian.)
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7th Museum, Amsterdam.
A public art project.
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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.
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Centraal Museum Utrecht.
The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands,
including historical works of art and
the Rietveld Schröder house (1924).
(Mainly in Dutch.)
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Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam.
Scientific and industrial computing.
Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
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Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
Art collection including Mondrian and Escher.
(In Dutch.)
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Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven.
Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923).
(Also in Dutch.)
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Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University.
Archectural Guide and Gallery including
Museums.
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Limburgs Museum, Limburg.
Includes multimedia using RealAudio.
(In Dutch.)
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Museon, The Hague.
Science and natural history:
geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology
physics and technology, ethnology.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Museum Gevangenpoort, The Hague.
(In Dutch.)
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National Museum of Coins and Medals, Leiden.
(Also in Dutch.)
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Natural History Museum, Maastricht.
Includes a
virtual tour and
kid's museum with a
quiz.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg.
Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
(Not yet on-line.)
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The
Software Museum, Amsterdam.
Early computer software disk directory listings.
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Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam.
Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country.
Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Technical Museum of the University of Delft.
(In Dutch.)
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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.)
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University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)
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Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art.
(In English and Dutch.)
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Mainly artworks by Vincent Van Gogh.
(In
English and Dutch.)
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Zuiderzeemuseum.
(In Dutch.)
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Amsterdam museums.
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Eindhoven museums.
(Dutch and some English.)
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Museums in the Netherlands and
Search for Museums,
Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT).
Succinct information, comprehensive coverage.
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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.
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De Museumserver.
Dutch museums on the Internet.
(Mostly Dutch, some
English.)
Good, but slowed by use of Java.
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Musea in Nederland.
Links sorted by
name,
type and
location.
(In Dutch only.)
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North Holland museums
(also
by city.
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Museumboot, Amsterdam.
Guided boat tour around major museums.
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Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
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Museums of Natural History, Tøyen, Oslo.
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Northern Lights Planetarium.
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Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
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Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo.
(In
English, French and Norwegian.)
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Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo.
(Also in Norwegian.)
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Tromsø Museum.
(Also in Norwegian.)
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Museums in
alphabetical order, by region, etc., from
Museumsnet Norway.
Comprehensive list, including hyperlinks where available.
(In Norwegian,
English, French and German soon.)
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Norway museum links
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Museum of Modern History, Ljubljana.
(In
English and Slovene.)
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National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana.
Archaeology, history, applied arts, drawings and graphics.
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Technical Museum of Slovenia, Bistra, Borovnica.
Traffic, agriculture, textile, electricity, forestry, wood processing,
hunting, fishing.
See also
MuseumShop@Home and
The Museum Company
for on-line museum-related shopping.
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