Museums at Your Fingertips
I can’t possibly link to all museums on the web. But fairly quickly, in searching the U.S. government’s official website, I found the following list of museums.
I include for your enjoyment, the following links, along with periodic commentary:
Now what’s cool to me about this museum’s website is its blog. In pretty short order, with two clicks, I was directed to this item that ultimately led me to this exhibit, A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters from the Archives of American Art
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Holocaust Museum
- National Arboretum
- National Gallery of Art
Honestly, I originally found the kids website for my son. But I think I found the site more fun than he did (don’t get me wrong, he enjoyed it). As a guy who can never get to museums often enough, I love that this website offers more than 40 in-depth tours online.
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Park Museums
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Postal Museum
Yep, they really Cliff Claven’s Uniform. I can’t imagine they get a lot of visitors for that one, but I could be wrong.
You have to give a nod to a museum website which offers visitors a daily discovery like this one (obscure, yet engaging)
Man, Rhode Island may be a small state, but they sure seem large with the number of historical museums they sport (more than 40 according to this website)
I cannot endorse all the links. And before I started following the links, I had no idea how many museums Smithsonian was involved in, in some shape or form. But any day I can tour the vast holdings of myriad museums with a few clicks of the button, I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth out of my Internet service provider, that’s for sure.
Tags: museums, photography