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Gothenburg Museum of Art: The Collection
Learn about the art collection covering about six hundred years of Nordic and European art. You can search the collection by artist, time period, or gallery, and even take online tours.
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image: 1956 Eisenhower vs. Stevenson
"Peace, Prosperity, and Progress". "Vote Democratic, the Party for You, and Not Just a Few". This online exhibition features presidential television campaign commercials from the 1956election. Includes video clips, information about...
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image: 1972 Nixon vs. Mc Govern
"President Nixon. Now More Than Ever"."McGovern. Democrat. For the People". This online exhibition features presidential television campaign commercials from the 1972 election. Includes video clips, information about thecandidates, and...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Whatever Happened to Polio?
Online exhibit commemorates the discovery of the polio vaccine. Includes a timelined history of the disease, beginning with the first clinical description of polio by British physician Michael Underwood. Inquiries into the research to...
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New Bedford Whaling Museum: William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas
Online exhibit of the life and work of nineteenth-century American marine artist William Bradford, whose lifelong interest in the sea led him north from New Bedford to Labrador and to the Arctic Ocean. See examples of Bradford's...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: The Stuff of Life: u.s. Design 1975 2000
PBS profiles the exhibit at the Denver Art Museum about how design is relevant in our society. There are interviews, images, and video--enough for developing your own lesson plan.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Catlin's Indian Gallery
The Smithsonian offers 32 of Catlin's Indian Gallery paintings online. Catlin visited 50 tribes living west of the Mississippi from 1830 to 1836.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: The Black Wings Story
This online story tells of how African Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. Besides tracing the story there are primary sources, classroom activities, and teaching resources are included.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Native Words, Native Warriors
Excellent online companion site to a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition on the World War I & World War II American Indian Code Talkers. Features information on Native languages, boarding schools, code talking, and lesson...
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Mint Museums: Hands on Crafts
Interactive resource about pottery, weaving, quilting, and basketry. Includes informative texts, videos of children dicussing and/or performing their craft, ability to "make" crafts online, and information about places to go to make...
Imperial War Museums
Imperial War Museums: Media and War
Online exhibition for teachers and students of citizenship, history and media studies, which examines the use of propaganda during the main conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Exhibition of the Enola Gay
Here you will find a video and photo gallery of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb. This is the online version of the former exhibition of the plane.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Paleontology: The Big Dig
A collection of online games, virtual puzzles, experiments, and interviews with experts to immerse students into the world of paleontology.
Other
Chicago Academy of Sciences: Notebaert Nature Museum
Online lesson plans are available on such subjects as constructing models that visualize the distance between planets and the sun. Teachers can also learn of workshops to enhance science instruction.
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Collection
An exciting online exhibit presenting hundreds of objects created specifically for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. See interactive collections of broadcast materials (manuals, media kits, passes), posters, banners, costumes, souvenirs,...
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Chocolate
An online exhibit that explores all aspects of chocolate from its history to its manufacture to recipes. Included are teacher resources to add enrichment to this study.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Harriet Tubman
View this engaging online exhibit to learn about Harriet Tubman, an outspoken advocate for African American and women's rights.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: History Explorer
History Explorer's site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students as well as anyone interested in learning and teaching American history. Hundreds of innovative online resources are offered. Lessons, activities, interactives, PD,...
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Other Invertebrates
This online exhibit from the Natural History Museum studies a range of topics related to invertebrates, or animals without a backbone. Crabs, snails, barnacles, sponges, and more are discussed at this exhibit.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Insects and Spiders
As an online exhibit from the Natural History Museum, this site examines many different subtopics stemming from a study on both insects and spiders. Several of the subtopics include spider bites, bumblebees, moths, edible insects,...
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Types of Fossils
This particular site is part of a larger online exhibit from the Natural History Museum covering various aspects of fossils and fossil research. Here, seven types of fossils are listed and each type is given a picture representation.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Fossil Folklore
Under the expansive online exhibit from the Natural History Museum on fossils, this site examines a series of myths associated with fossils including topics on monkeys, snakes, serpents, monsters, and more.
Other
Tech Museum of Innovation: Forensics
This is part of the overview page for the online exhibit on Genetics from the Tech Museum of Innovation. This particular section focuses on forensic science and its work with modern crime detection.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Birds Exhibit
An online exhibit from the Natural History Museum, this site is home to six individual topics related to birds including four videos on different aspects and types of birds.