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The British Museum

British Museum: Online Tours: Enlightenment: Art and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Online tour of objects in the museum's galleries explains attempts by eighteenth-century scholars to classify art according to Enlightenment ideas and ideals.
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National Palace Museum (Taiwan)

For Students 9th - 10th
The online counterpart of Taiwan's National Palace Museum provides access to the museum's treasures of Chinese art.
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Calouset Gulbenkian Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the Calouset Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum houses both the private collection of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, the founder, and a more recent collection of modern and contemporary art. Online,...
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Launchpad Online: Launchball

For Students 9th - 10th
Use your knowledge of physics concepts like electricity, reflection, magnetism, etc. to complete interactive online puzzles.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Testimonios De Los Sobrevivientes

For Students 9th - 10th
Available in Spanish only: from the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Historias personales" or "personal stories" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Resistencia Espiritual en Los Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
Available in Spanish only: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Resistencia espiritual en los ghettos" or "Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Enciclopedia Del Holocausto: Mauthausen

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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Louvre Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Official web site of the museum, with links to virtual visits, online exhibitions, and a storehouse of resources designed to make its collections available to a worldwide audience.
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Dadabase: Online Catalog of the Ny Museum of Modern Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Search this "dada" base of the NY Museum of Modern Art. There are help topics along the way to aid you in your research. Once you find what you want, you can download the information. There is a new Latin American bibliography as well!
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National Music Museum: Virtual Tours

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy browsing through this virtual music museum. You will see many different pictures ranging from instruments of the Civil War to former President Bill Clinton's saxophone.
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Columbia Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The collection of the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina is accessible online through chronologically arranged galleries. The superb text gives background information for the art works, and enlargeable images are linked within the...
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Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
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Highland Village Museum: An Clachan Gaidhealach

For Students 9th - 10th
The Highland Village Museum/An Clachan Gaidhealac aims to educate people about Gaelic culture and history in Nova Scotia, as well as to promote Gaelic culture and language in order to aid their survival. A synopsis of Gaelic history and...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fashion Illustrations

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore more fashion illustrations of the early 20th century in this online art gallery of lithographs. Includes the work of noted French illustrator George Barbier.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Collections: Japanese Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
From the online collection tours of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this is a collection of pieces from the Japanese Paintings at the museum. Click on 'View All Works' to access the collection.
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US National Archives

Herbert Hoover Museum Permanent Galleries

For Students 9th - 10th
Online tour of the galleries found in the Herbert Hoover Museum. Includes photos and historically significant documents.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Tour the museum's famed exhibition hall dedicated to ocean life at this online recreation. Find videos, maps, species specimens, and images that let you experience many of the museum's resources on ocean life right from your desktop.
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North Dakota Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website of the North Dakota Museum of Art. The museum focuses on contemporary art and art that shows the visual history of the region, including a focus on Native American art. Collections and exhibitions can be viewed...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Collections Online: French Oil Sketches

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 19 images of French oil sketches painted during the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries that are part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collections. Click on each title to see an enlarged image and...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Anne Frank, the Writer

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibition about Anne Frank that focuses on her writing. Plenty of pictures, and translations of her writing, as well as transcripts of interviews with video clips.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Legendary Coins and Currency

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived images of coins from a beautiful online exhibition on the history of money.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Carvers and Collections: Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition site includes video demonstration of gem-carving techniques, side-by-side comparison of intaglios and cameos, and examples of gemstones carved by ancient Greeks, some of which have been set into jewelry.
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Smithsonian Institution

Anacostia Community Museum: All the Stories Are True: African American Writers Speak

For Students 9th - 10th
An online companion site for an exhibit showing at the Anacostia Community Museum. Read biographical information on many African American writers while viewing video clips and photos.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Star Wars: The Magic of Myth

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition relates the original Star Wars film trilogy to the "hero's journey" presented in Joseph Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces" and "The Power of Myth." Originally accompanied an exhibit at the Museum, but now stands...

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