WWW-VL: US ART MUSEUMS

• Abbe Museum Native American Heritage, Bar Harbor, Maine
• American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO
• The Art Institute of Chicago Museum, Chicago, IL
• Artists In Kansas, Directory of Kansas Art Museums, Centers, Galleries
• Art Montana , Directory of Art Museums, Galleries
• Barnes Foundation Gallery Art Collection, Merion, PA
• The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, KSU, Manhattan, KS
• Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
• Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
• Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
• Amon Carter Museum , Fort Worth, TX
• CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum [Best online art museum]
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
• The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
• Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, at the Reese-Peters House, Lancaster, OH
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
• Dia: Beacon Riggio Galleries, Beacon, NY
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
• J. Paul Getty Museum (The Getty), Los Angeles, CA
• Gilcrease Museum The Museum of the Americas, Tulsa, OK
• Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
• Holmes Anthropology Museum, WSU, Wichita, KS
• Southwest Indian Pueblo Pottery [360 degree virtuals of Pueblo pottery]
• Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
• Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
• ICA: Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston, MA
• International Center of Photography Museum, New York, NY
• Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Photograph Collection, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
• Kemper Museum of Comtemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
• Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
• LUMA: Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
• Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
• Menil Collection, Houston, TXMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
• MoMA: Museum of Modern Art , New York, NY
• Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
• Mulvane Art Museum of Washburn University, Topeka, KS
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• Museum of Fine Arts MFA, Boston, MA
• Museum of Fince Arts MFAH, Houston, TX
• Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM
• Museums West Western Museums of North America
• Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX [outstanding use of flash]
• Matisse In Dallas: Painter as Sculptor
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• National Museum of Women in the Arts,Washington,DC
• National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
• Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Long Island City, NY
• National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian
• Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
• Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
• Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
• Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
• San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX,
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
• The Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
• Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC
• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art: SAMA, Loretto, PA
• Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • Spencer Museum MySpace
  • SMA YouTube: Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
  • NewAaron Douglas: African American Modernist, Spencer Exhibit
• Swinging Through Time: The Greystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazz, IPL [RealPlayer, QuickTime]
• Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
• Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
• Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ
• UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
• Ulrich Museum of Art , WSU, Wichita, KS
• University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
• Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN
• The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
• Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Weird Gardens, Baltimore, Maryland [private house museum -- site author's favorite odd museum site]
• Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Wyeth Center at Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME

U.S. Museum Associations and Government

• American Association of Museums Washington, D.C.
• AAM Latest Museum News
• AAM Media & Technology Committee
• AAM 2008: Small Museums & Technology Panel Resource Guide
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association
• MySpace, YouTube and OurMuseums: Using Social Networks for Museums - Reaching Generation Why?; MPMA Web Session
• Museum Myspace: Mountain-Plains Museums Association, an example for museums, MPMA Technology Committee
• Museums on YouTube, selected YouTube examples
• Top Ten Best Museums MySpace Pages, 2008, MuseumPods
• Association of Art Museum Directors, New York, NY
• Association of African-American Museums, Wilberforce, Ohio
• Heritage Preservation Washington, D.C.
• Institute of Museum and Library Science IMLS, Washington, D.C.
• MuseDoma, Museum Domain Management Association [about.museum; Contact for .museum domain]
• National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.
• Print Council of America Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints
• US Government Site, firstgov.us

Collaborative Art Groups

• Boston Cyberart Gallery, Boston, MA
• International Collage Exhibition & Exchange, (formerly Bakers Dozen), permanent collection, Museo de Collage, Mexico,
  multi-country travelling exhibit, selected student artists, New Zealand based.

Museum Services

• Exhibits USA Mid-America Arts Alliance
• Fellowships in Museum Practice
• Museum Consultants MPMA Technology Committee, Mountain-Plains Museums Association
• MuseumBlogs.Org, Museums and Exhibit Blog Directory
• Museum Podcasts, multi-language portal
• Museums and the Web Conference, 2007

Digitization Resources

• Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) [IMLS funded; multi-state]
• Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices
• Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
• CDP Digital Audio Best Practices
• Museum Data Collection, Institute of Museum and Library Services (ILMS), [.pdf file]
• Digital Photograph Collection Policy, Minnesota Historical Society, (addresses historical organizations accepting digital copies of photographs from the public, and then returning originals to the owners.) [.pdf]
• Web Site Tools for non-profits

Why Museums Matter

• Charting the Landscape/Mapping New Paths: Museums, Libraries, and K-12 Education, of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
• The Evolution of Core Values Through Institution Self-Examination, Arthur H. Wolf, INTERCOM: International Committee On Management, 2002
• Exploring Motivational Factors and Visitor Satisfaction in On-line Museum Visits, Institute for Learning Innovation and Eduweb
• Informational Value of Museum Web Sites First Mind Internet Journal
• "Museums: Why Should We Care? For the study and understanding of mankind," by P. de Montebello, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Role of Museums in online teaching, learning, and research, by Kenneth Hamma, J. Paul Getty Museum
• 2006: Year of the Museum, American Association of Museums, a major national effort to encourage all Americans to experience, celebrate, and support the museums in their communities

Related WWW-Virtual Library Sites

• WWW-VL: History: US History Museums
• WWW-VL: USA Historic Sites
• WWW-VL: History Museums, [.museum focus]
• WWW-VL: History: US Historic Preservation