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Standout museum sites on the Web: Almost as good as being there
Chicago
unique medium for artistic
pets in the Robot Zoo. And
students and teachers can
e-mail science questions to be
answered by experts. Science
was never so much fun!
information.The online
exhibit area (above),
“Paleontology Without Walls,’
lets you board a virtual
“lift” to explore any era of
evolution, from Precambrian
(4.5 billion years ago) to
Holocene (today). Learn
about trilobites (“Gone
but Not Forgotten”) or
search through half a dozen
catalogs. The paleobotany
catalog, for one, has more
than 8,000 types of
specimens, including
fungi and macroalgae.
University of California
Museum of Paleontology,
Berkeley
photography, language,
image and time.”
Museum of Modem Art,
New York
http://www.moma.org/
MOMA’s site Is modern
artwork in itself. A special
section is devoted to
Web-only exhibits. Readers
can display and download
images of the museum’s
more famous works, like
Van Gogh’s The Starry
Night, and read press
releases. An exhibit on
“Contemporary Design From
the Netherlands,” on display
at M0MA last year, continues
to exist permanently online.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.e<lu/
Those with more Jurassic
interests will appreciate this
gem, er, fossil of a site. What
it lacks in aesthetics it more
than makes up for in
http://www.rockhall.com/
The King of music Web pages “ {
It’s flashy and glitzy, but not
without substance. Online
exhibits include “Art of the
[Grateful] Dead.” You also
can learn about “500 Songs
That Shaped Rock and Roll,”
find out when Bob Dylan was
born (May 24,1941), and
download groovy graphics
for your computer desktop.
— Cesar G. Soriano
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archeology
and Anthropology,
Philadelphia
http://www.upenn.edu/imiseum/
Even Indiana Jones would
feel at home at Penn’s
museum Web page (above), Afterward, visit the virtual
with rotating virtual exhibits
on topics such as ancient
Greek artifacts and
“Traditional Navigation in the
Western Pacific.” The online
features are in addition to
richly illustrated chapters on
the museum's real-world
exhibits. Researchers and the
curious can search through
extensive listings of what's _ _ has the feel of an MTV video,
new in the field of archeology.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and Museum, Cleveland
Franklin Institute Science
Museum, Philadelphia
http://www.fl.sdu/
The Franklin is one of the
nation’s most interactive,
hands-on museums, and its
Web page is no different.
Visitors can conduct online
science experiments, such as
learning to predict weather
without a kite and a key.
AS THE COST of Museum of Contemporary Art, presentation, combining
mounting exhibits rises, Chicago elements of video,
museums are turning to h**p://w»*.mcachicago.org/
technology to display their lo enter the MCA’s Web page,
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the first screen. Inside, the clean,
8,000 museum pages on the
’ r ° cnsp site details current, future
Net, some from galleries and past exhibits. What makes
around the world and some this Web page truly special is the
existing solely in cyber- museum’s commitment to online
space. We sorted through installations for artists who wish
them to find the best Amer- to use the Web as “a new and
ican museum Web pages.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 37, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 14, 1997, newspaper, December 14, 1997; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1176501/m1/59/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.