Subject pages attached to craig:art/museum

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1.	Perseus Project [Tufts University] Searchable archelogical objects from ancient Greece among other things such as manuscripts. The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
2.	Beautiful Birds [Cornell University] This site showcases more than 170 lovely eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ornithological illustrations from books and art works included in or loaned to the Cornell University Library's Hill Ornithology Collection. [ hummingbirds] URL: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/noframes/default.htm
3.	Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period Provided by the Nagasaki University Library, the new English version of this database contains over 5,400 hand-colored photos taken during the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (1860-1920), the earliest stage in the history of Japanese photography. Example: Girl Playing on Gekin URL: http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/
4.	Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim has become a fascinating entity in recent years, with its expansion into Europe in the cities of Berlin and Bilbao. Known for its unique spiral form, the original Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan's Upper East side was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and is now joined by the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, whose emphasis remains appropriately on multimedia and interactive works of art. URL: http://www.guggenheim.org
5.	Louvre This beautifully designed site offers not only a plethora of information on the museum's history and collections, but also gives visitors a chance to experience the majesty of the Louvre through a virtual tour. URL: http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre
6.	Victoria and Albert Museum [alt] The official site of London's V&A, the largest museum of decorative arts in the world, has a new look and a new image database containing images of over 2,000 objects. URL: http://www.vam.ac.uk/Explorer/Virtual/images/
7.	Lost Art Internet Database The Lost Art Internet Database is a collaborative project of the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("Lander"). The site "registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism." URL: http://www.lostart.de

8.	American Treasures [top] Thomas Jefferson, whose personal library became the core of the Library of Congress, arranged his books into three types of knowledge, corresponding to three faculties of the mind: Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy), and Imagination (Fine Arts). URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
9.	Meeting of Frontiers Recently announced by the Library of Congress (LOC), this bilingual (Russian and English) site explores "the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. URL: http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html
10.	Abraham Lincoln Papers The complete collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series. This release, which includes 2,200 annotated documents (about 6,500 images), comprises series one and contains correspondence dated from March 1829 through June 1864 that was originally gathered by Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son. URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
11.	Thomas Jefferson The online preview of the Jefferson exhibition examines Jefferson's intellectual development, using his own writings, supplemented by all manner of related items from the Library's collections. A draft fragment of the Declaration of Independence, letters Jefferson wrote, and his drawing of his own gravestone and epitaph are accompanied by images such as (his father) Peter Jefferson's 1755 Map of Virginia and an oil painting, "Congress Voting the Declaration of Independence." URL: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson
12.	America's Story From America's Library makes history fun, presenting content in broad thematic areas: Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, and See, Hear and Sing. URL: http://www.americaslibrary.gov
13.	SONIC - Sound ONline Inventory and Catalog access to the records of the largest publicly available audio collection in the world. SONIC contains approximately 350,000 entries, representing over 25 percent of the Library's sound recording holdings. URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/record

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Make the Dirt Fly! [Smithsonian Institution] This overview of the creation of the Panama Canal is a great online version of an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution libraries. URL: http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Make-the-Dirt-Fly

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Visual Thinking: Sketchbooks from the Archives of American Art Hundreds of sketchbooks in the Archives of American Art form a vast repository of ideas, perceptions, inspirational imagery, and graphic experiments. As personal records they afford an intimate glimpse of an artist's visual thinking and reveal aspects of their creative process URL: http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/sketchbk/sketchbk.htm