Africa

Argentina

• Museo de Fisica, La Plata. Scientific instruments. (In Spanish.)

Australia

• ArtServe, the Australian National University Mosaic for the Humanities. Art history, including many architecture and sculpture images.
• 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 Dinosaur Museum, Gungahlin, near Canberra City.
• National Gallery of Australia.
• 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.
• Sydney Jewish Museum. The Holocaust and Australian Jewish history, including related links.
• Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth.

• Western Australian Museum, Perth.
• Australian Museums On Line, including searching.
• Museums and Collections at Macquarie University.
• Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS).
• Museums in Victoria.

Austria

• 1002 situations "virtual museum" - an interactive people's museum on the Internet. Also an exhibition at Castle Tollet, Upper Austria, opened 22 September 1995. On-line contributions were sought for the exhibition.
• Grafische Sammlung Albertina. Art museum founded in 1773. (In German, English and Italian.)
• Historical Museum of the City of Vienna. (In German, English planned.)
• K?stlerhaus, Vienna. Privately owned Artist-Society, founded in 1861, providing galleries and exhibitions (locally and for other museums and institutes).
• Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna. International 20th century modern art. See text guide including on-line galleries and exhibits. (In English and German).
• Osterreichisches Judisches Museum .
• Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna.
  Also in english

B.

Belgium

• F?icien Rops Museum, Namur. Covers the work of the artist F. Rops (1833-1898).
• Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance.
• Musee de Louvain-la-Neuve, Universite catholique de Louvain. Includes EOLE 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, Dutch and soon German.)
• Namur museums.
• Royal Museum of the Army.

Bolivia

• Museums in Sucre, capital of Bolivia. (In Spanish.)

Brazil

• Museu do Indio. (In Portuguese.)
• Museu da Republica. (In Portuguese.)
• Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. (In Portuguese.)
• National Museum of History, Rio de Janeiro. (Also in Portuguese.)
• National Museum of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Brasilia. (Also in Portuguese.)

• Sao Paulo museums. (In Portugese.)

Canada

Chile

• Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago. (In Spanish.)

   

• National museums and other state-funded

Colombia

• Gold Museum. (In English and Spanish.)

   

• Museo del Oro. (In Spanish.)

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.

   

• Galleries contacts and addresses.
• Prague.

Denmark

• Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund. (A.k.a. Isac Dinesen, also in Danish.)
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting. (In English and 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. (In Danish, in English soon.)

• Museums Guide - a comprehensive index of Danish museums by name and location from Kulturnet Danmark.

Egypt

• Coptic Museum, Cairo.
• Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

   

• Museums located in Egypt and with Egyptian collections from CultureNet.

Estonia

• Art Museum of Estonia.
• Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn.
• Estonian State Maritime Museum (Meremuuseum), Tallinn.

   

• Museums list.

Finland

• Aine Art Museum, Tornio. Finnish visual arts from 1814. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.) See also Ars Nordica publications.
• Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyv?kyl? Specializes in architecture.
• Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
• Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.)
• Museum of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla. Cultural history. (Also in Finnish, German 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

• Cite des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris. (In French and English.)
• Electropolis, Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy. (In French, English and German planned.)
• 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.)
  • JOCONDE database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images. (In French.)
  • Important archaeological discovery of a Palaeolithic painted cave near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (also in French). An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of damage.
  • The Musee 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.)
• French National Center for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou. (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 here.
• Musee des arts et metiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the Conservatoire National de Arts et Metiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)
• Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See collections catalogue including searchable fish catalogue. (In French and English.)
• Videomuseum. (In French, English soon.)

   

• Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.
• Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
• Maritime museums.

Germany

• Atomkeller-Museum Haigerloch. The site where the last German experiments on nuclear fission were conducted during World War II.
• Baumberger-Sandstein-Museum, Havixbeck, Munster. Sandstone farm house. (In German and English.)
• Colditz Castle and Museum, Saxony. See Everyday Life in OfLag IV C exhibition of watercolours by William Faithfull Anderson.
• Deutsches Museum, Munich. Science and technology. Includes an Aircraft Museum and links to other museums in Germany and elsewhere. (Also in German.)
• German Historical Museum, Berlin. Includes links to other German museums. (In German and English.)
• National Museum for Post War History, Bonn. Contemporary history from the end of World War II. (In German, in English soon.)
• Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. One of the oldest public museums in Germany. Includes art, crafts and natural history. (In German.)
• Planetarium im Forum der Technik, Munich.
• Mercedes Benz Museum.
• Reiff II Museum, Aachen. Realized Electronically Illustrated Fast Frame Interactive Information. (Mostly in German.) Artists may submit electronic artworks for possible inclusion at the reception.
• Roman Open-Air Museum, Hechingen-Stein. A Roman Villa dating from the 1st to 3rd Century AD. (Also in German.)
• Schiller National Museum / German Literature Archive. (In German.)
• Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt.
• SiemensForum (former SiemensMuseum), Munich. Exhibitions on electrical engineering and microelectronics. (Also in German.)
• St?tische Kunsthalle Mannheim. See Turner exhibition. (In German.)

   

• Museums in Germany. (In German.)
• Museumslandschaft museums list. (In German.)
• Hamburg museums. (In German.)
• Kulture Online. (In German.)
• ICOM Deutschland information. (In German.)

Greece

• The Acropolis Museum, Athens. Situated on the Acropolis.
• Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
• National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
• Technical Museum of Thessaloniki. (Also in Greek.)
• WebAcropol, Athens. A virtual tour of the Acropolis.

   

• Cultural map of Greece including museums and Athens. Part of the Hellenic Culture information server from the Hellenic Ministry Of Culture. (In English and Greek.)

Hungary

• Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. (In English and Hungarian.)

Iceland

• The Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri
• Museums and libraries in Reykjavik.

Israel

• Babylonian Jewry Museum, Or-Yehuda. History of the Jews of Babylon.
• Edith and Rubin Hecht Museum, Haifa University. Archaeology and paintings.
• 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.

Italy

• Archaeological Museum of Bologna. Egyptian, Etruscan and other collections. (Also in Italian.)
• Astronomical Museum, Bologna.
• Italian Web Museum. Virtual marketing!
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Modern art. An outpost of the Guggenheim Museum,
• History of Science Museum, Florence. (Also in Italian.)
• Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari. (In Italian.)
• 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.)
• 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.)
• Wooden Toy exhibition, Padua.

• A-Bomb WWW Museum, Hiroshima.
• Art on the Net museum exhibition.
• Art Tower Mito. Contemporary Art Center.
• Canon Camera Museum.
• Edo-Tokyo Museum, Setagaya Art Museum and other buildings in Tokyo. Architectural information only, from Ellipsis.
• Hiroshima City Transportation Museum. (Also in Japanese.)
• Internet Museum.
• Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto. Archaeology, ceramics, sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, textiles, lacquerware, metalwork. (Also in Japanese.)
• Museum Meiji-mura. Open-air museum of Japanese architecture from the Meiji period (1868-1912). Includes a field map. (Also in Japanese.)
• Nagoya City Art Museum.
• National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. (Mostly in Japanese.)
• National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba. (Also in Japanese.)
• National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. (In English and Japanese.)
• National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. (Also in Japanese.)
• National Science Museum, Tokyo. (In English and Japanese.)
• Tokugawa Art Museum. Includes exhibition rooms. (Also in Japanese.)
• Yokohama Science Center, Yokohoma. (In Japanese and English.)

• Museum Information Japan. A map of Japan with museum links. (Also in Japanese.)

Luxembourg

• National Museum of Art and History. (Held at the Ministere de L'Education Nationale, partly in French.)

Mexico

• Carrillo Gil Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City. Mexican 20th century art. (In Spanish, in English soon.)
• Diego Rivera Virtual Museum. Muralist painter (1886-l957). (Also in Spanish.)
• Museo de las Culturas Prehispanicas, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. (In Spanish.)
• Tina Modotti Museum. Virtual museum of photographs. (In Spanish.)
• Webmuseum of Latin America. Includes a selection of museums and links to other museums.

• Art and History Museums from the Virtual Forum of Mexican Culture. (Also in Spanish.)

Namibia

• National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek. National heritage.

Netherlands

• 7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.
• Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. See also the
• Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
• 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 Gevangenpoort, The Hague. (In Dutch.)
• Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. (In English and Dutch.)
• 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.)
• Teylers Museum. 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 English.)
• University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art. (English and Dutch.)

• Amsterdam museums.
• Eindhoven museums. (Dutch and some English.)
• Museums in the Netherlands, Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT). An excellent, comprehensive list.
• De Museumserver, the Netherlands. Dutch museums on the Internet.

New Zealand

• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
• 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.
• New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, Wanaka Airport. Includes links to other aviation museums on the Web.

Norway

• Museumsnett Norge
• Northern Lights Planetarium.
• Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
• Troms?Museum. (In Norwegian.)

Poland

• Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw. (In English and Polish.)
• Museum of Art, Lodz.
• Saltmine "Wieliczka", Museum of Cracow salt-works, Wieliczka.

Portugal

• Palacio Nacional Da Ajuda.
  (In English and Portugese.)
• Instituto Portugues de Museus. Includes museum virtual tours, events, shop, etc. (In English and Portugese.)
• Maritime Museum, Lisbon. (In English and Portugese.)

Romania

Russia

• Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Major art collection. See also here (in Russian and English).
• State Art and Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve "Kolomenskoe", Moscow. (Also in Russian.)
• State Darwin Museum of Natural History. (Also in other languages.)
• State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

• Russian museums. (In English and other languages).
• Moscow museums (see also here).
• St. Petersburg museums (see also Pictures Gallery).

Singapore

• Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum. Singaporean artist whose works incorporate images, sculptures, poetry and music. Includes on-line souvenir shop and toilet.
• National Heritage Board.

Slovenia

• International museum of Grafic Arts, Ljubljana
• 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.

South Africa

• Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Includes the Natural Sciences Museum, History Museum, Observatory Museum, Fort Selwyn, Old Provost military prison, and Drostdy Arch.
• Durban Art Gallery.
• South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
• Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. Natural history collections of southern African fauna.

South Korea

• Ho-Am Art Museum. Largest private museum in the country. Paintings, ceramics and handicrafts. (Also in Korean.)
• National Kyongju Museum, Kyongju. Cultural assets.

  Spain

  Museo del Prado.
  Museo del Calzado.
  Museo Arqueologico Municipal de Jerez. Portada.
  Parque de las Ciencas.
  

Switzerland

• Kunstmuseum Luzern. Museum of Fine Arts, Lucerne. (Also in German.)
• Musee de la Main, Lausanne. (In French.)
• Natural History Museum, Berne.
• Natural History Museum of Fribourg. (In French, German, Italian and English.)
• Swiss national museum
• The Olympic Museum, Lausanne.
• World Art Treasures, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne and EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Presents a number of developing on-line exhibits of art from Egypt, China, Italy, etc. (Also in French.)

   

• Museums and exhibitions in Switzerland,
• Database for Swiss Cultural Heritage (DSCH), Berne. (In English, French, German and Italian.)
• Basel museums. (In German and English.)
• Fribourg museums.
• Geneva museums. (In French.)
• Lausanne museums. (In French.)
• Art museums.

Sweden

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Taiwan

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

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United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

United States of America

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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.)

Venezuela

• Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas (MACCSI). (In English and Spanish.)