2020 #VWEDU: Museums on your lap. Going places in your laptop. An online presence extends the reach of a museum and gives new meaning to the idea of a field trip.

Museums on your lap.  
Going places in your laptop.  
An online presence extends the reach of a museum 
and changes the idea of a field trip. 
Updated 9/1/2020

Museums provide a lot of educational material.  In the old days, most of that was only available locally or after expensive travel.  A museum on the web changes the game.

Visiting a museum 

in SineSpace

SineSpace

• SineSpace home
• Natural History Museum location

Museum resources on the web

• The Virtual Peale Museum on your laptop. Disabilities are left behind when you travel on your laptop
• 100+ Museum & Art Gallery Websites For Design Inspiration
• Best Museum Websites: Top 10 Examples - Weblium Blog
• 12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online
• Gallery or Museum websites
• 19 Steps: Planning for Extended Covid-19 Close Down
• Museums on the web (search)
• (The above search will be updated when you use it.)  

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Digital museums and art galleries 

• The Museum in your Pocket
• A web-based 3D view of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Visit 3DWebWorldz in your browser.
• 3D Fieldtrip To The Virginia Museum Of Natural History
• Oxford Museum of Natural History
• Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
• Bauhaus Museum LEA2. A museum on your desk   
• Micrographia in the virtual world. A museum on your desk   
• The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely  
• Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum - Day of the dead-- Dia de los Muertos  
• The Modern Museum- Art and the development of civilization
• Museum Of Virtual Media, University of Washington Ischool
• Virtual Museum of Architecture Spring Build-Off  
• American Museum of Natural History summer camp project, The Vesuvius Group
• Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip 
• Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
• Wanted: mesh museum content for 3DWebworldz and other browser-based virtual worlds
• Art and art communities of the virtual worlds
• Rapid prototyping an entire museum gallery — The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop
• Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
• Ten Digital Education Resources from the National Gallery of Art
• VIRTUAL TOURS OF MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITS
• American Southwest Virtual Museum - digital repository of photographs, maps, information and virtual tours  
• Canadian Museum of History - Reflections on the future, today
• Boston Children's Museum - Virtual Tour
• British Museum - Museum's collection which represents the world's cultures and their histories
• Giraffatitan (dinosaur) comes back to life - Youtube 360 video (4:04) from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin
• Guggenheim - Collection Online
• Google Cultural Institute - The world's art online
• Louvre - Online tours
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago - Online Science
• Museum of the History of Science - University of Oxford
• Museo Galileo - Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence
• National Museum of Computing - history and ongoing development of computing in VR
• Ship Simulator - Ships2Career
• Smithsonian - Time and Navigation online exhibition
• Smithsonian - Explore the Universe  
• Smithsonian - How Things Fly
• Spy Museum - Virtual Tour
• Trans-Mississippi Theater - Virtual Museum with pictures and description
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection
• The Museum of Science, Boston - Online Exhibits
• The Tech Museum of Innovation - Online Exhibits
• Vatican Museums - Vatican Collections Online
• Virtual Museum of Canada - Canadian museum collections
• Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules - University of Wisconsin
• WebExhibits - An interactive museum
• Wind River Virtual Museum - Wind River Indian Reservation

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
• I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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