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COLLECTIONS

The Canadian Museum of Civilization intends to put its entire collection online. Currently this searchable site gives web access to approximately 50,000 records.
http://www.civilization.ca/collect/csintroe.html

The Library of Congress provides a search engine to its online collections as part of its American Memory project.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/collections:@field(COLLID+ndlcoll):heading=All+Collections Comprehensive data on more than 100,000 objects in the

National Gallery of Art is accessible online. More than 4000 include digitalized images.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/collect.htm

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's searchable data base includes images of more than half their collections. Many can be examined in detail with a zoom feature. Viewers can create their own virtual galleries drawing from the collections.
http://www.thinker.org/fam/virtual-gallery.html

CONSERVATION

Australian Museums OnLine (AMOL) maintains a list of conservation organizations and resources
http://amol.org.au/craft/conservation/conservation_index.asp.

Conservation OnLine (CoOL) at Stanford University provides an extensive list of links to conservation resources.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

RESEARCH

Museum Computer Network is an organization dedicated to computer technologies as a cultural tool.
http://www.mcn.edu/index.html

Arts Humanities Data Services provides access to 5000 databases in the United Kingdom.
http://ahds.ac.uk/

The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) offers training for museum professionals as well as comprehensive data on Canadian museums.
http://www.chin.gc.ca/e_main_menu.html

EDUCATION

The Education Department of the Smithsonian Institution is an incredibly rich resource for teachers.
http://educate.si.edu/

San Francisco's Exploratorium is not just for kids! The online exhibits on this site come to life through its wonderful use of sound and motion.
http://www.exploratorium.edu

VISITOR EVALUATION

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science has a brief listing on a web evaluation study conducted by John Chadwick, then a graduate student and now working for John Falk. Chadwick's complete paper on the methodology and the results is posted online at the Museums and the Web 99 site.
http://www2.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/researchresults/index.html

The Association of Science-Technology Centers maintains an online resource center for visitor studies:
http://www.asctc.org/resource/visitor/index.htm

MARKETING

Colonial Williamsburg has an extensive website, with a marketing-driven popular approach to history. Look at the Plan Your Trip pages particularly to see a highly professional job of packaging the park as an ideal tourist destination.
http://www.history.org/

DEVELOPMENT

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has perfected the web approach to membership, with a special Net Member category. Their museum store is a significant source of revenue and they even sell cultural tours online.
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/member/brochure.htm l

HUMAN RESOURCES

The Museum Resource Board is just one of many sites that list job openings, internships and post resumes for free
http://seeing2020.com/museums/jobs.html

COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS

The Art Museum Image Consortium, a group of 25 major American art museums, is making its collections available online. While much of the detailed information will be sold on a subscription basis to other public institutions, a searchable catalog of pictures and limited data is now online.
http://www.amico.org/

Artsconnected combines the educational resources of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to bring art to students via the Net.
http://www.artsconnected.org

NINCH is an organization of over 70 associations and individual cultural institutions dedicated to using the web to share digitalized resources.
http://www-ninch.cni.org

Australian Museums On Line is the product of a collaboration between government and museums to provide public access to information about the country's heritage collections.
http://amol.org.au/index.asp

Science Learning Network is a site maintained by a group of science museums and schools using the Web to further inquiry-based education.
http://www.sln.org

OTHER

Museums and the Web, an annual conference, has conference papers and proceedings online for each of its meetings since 1997.
http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html

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