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Afghanistan

Kabul Museum.

Antarctica

McMurdo Historical Society Virtual Museum, McMurdo Station. Antarctic history.

Australia

ANU Classics Department Museum, Australian National University, Canberra. Part of ArtServe - 27,000 images of art and architecture, mainly from the Mediterranean area.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Australian Museum, Sydney.
Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne.
Macleay Museum, Sydney. Natural history collection.
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. Natural and cultural heritage collections at several sites.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Fine art.
National Motorcycle Museum, Mitchell, Canberra.
National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Physics Museum, University of Queensland.
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian social history. Australia's largest museum.
Queensland Museum, University of Queensland.
Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Point Cook, Victoria.
Sydney Jewish Museum. The Holocaust and Australian Jewish history, including related links.
Victorian Racing Museum, Caulfield, Victoria. Horse racing.
Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth.
Western Australian Museum, Perth.
Australian Museums On Line
Australian University Museums Online
Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS).
Museums and Collections at Macquarie University.
Victoria museums.

Czech Republic

Czech Pharmaceutical Museum.
Moravian Museum, Brno. Archaeology, history, numismatics, literature, music, theatre, geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and entomology. (In Czech and English.)
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.
National Museum, Prague. (In Czech and English.)
National Technical Museum, Prague. (In Czech and English.)
Galleries contacts and addresses.
Prague. See also Museums and Galleries Image Tour.
Association of Czech, Moravian ana Silesian Museums (AMG). Includes a directory of Czech museums and galleries, and a calendar of exhibitions. (In Czech only.)

Denmark

Danish Museum of Electricity. (In Danish, English and German.)
Immigrantmuseet, Stavnsholtvej. (In Danish.)
Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund. (A.k.a. Isac Dinesen, also in Danish and English.)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting. (In English and Danish.)
Museet på Koldinghus, Koldinghus. (In English and Danish.)
Museums of Natural History, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. Botany, geology and zoology. Includes searchable botanical specimen database. (25,000 records.)
Naturhistorisk Museum, Århus. Natural history. (In English, Danish & German.)
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. (Also in Danish.)
North Sea Museum. (Nordsømuseet, in Danish.)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Archeological (especially Egyptian) artefacts, Impressionist and other paintings. (Some information in English.)
Skive Art Museum. (Mainly Danish, some information in Dutch, English and German.)
Steno Museum, University of Aarhus, Århus. (Also in Danish.) History of science and medicine.
Struer Museum. History of the town. (Also in Danish and German.)
Telephone Museum, Hellerup. (Also in Danish.)
Cultural institutions (including many museums) under the Ministry of Culture, from Kulturnet Danmark.
Storstrøm museums. (In Danish, English and German planned.)

Estonia

Estonian Literary Museum. (Also in English.)
Estonian Maritime Museum (Meremuuseum), Tallinn.
Estonian National Museum, Tartu.
Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn. (In Estonian.)
Museum of Viljandi.
Museum search in Estonia.
Museums list. (In Estonian.)
Tallinn museums. (In Estonian.)

Fiji

Fiji Museum.

Finland

Aine Art Museum, Tornio. Finnish visual arts from 1814.
Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä. Specializes in architecture.
Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art.
Helsinki City Art Museum. Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city.
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä. Cultural history.
The Museumship Pommern, Âland. 1903 four-masted steel-bark ship from Glasgow, Scotland.
The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
Spy Museum, Tampere.
Finnish museums information including a alphabetical list of museums (also ordered by location and by type) from the Finnish Museums Association.
Nordic museum links (Finland).
Tampere.

France

Château de Versailles, near Paris.
Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris.
Electropolis, Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy.
French Ministry of Culture. See:
- The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
- Documentation, including several databases:
  - Joconde database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.
  - MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des musées de France (DMF).
  - Muséofile - national database of French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.).
- Archaeological discovery of a decorated Palaeolithic cave near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (announced 17 January 1995). An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of damage.
- The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon. Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne.
The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world.
Museum of Asiatic Art, Nice.
Musée des arts et métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.
Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor.
Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Musée des télécommunications: Le Radome, Pleumeur-Bodou.
Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence.
Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris.
Videomuseum. (In English soon - September 1997.)
Art and culture - major French museums guide.
Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.
Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
Maritime museums.
Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

Greece

The Acropolis Museum, Athens. Situated on the Acropolis.
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Houses the Alexander, WWW Server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Rhodes Jewish Museum, Rhodes.
Technical Museum of Thessaloniki.
WebAcropol, Athens. A virtual tour of the Acropolis.
Cultural map of Greece and list of museums.
Hellenic Culture including Macedonia and Thrace.
Hellenic Museums by type. Comprehensive collection of images, etc.
Athens.
Thessaloniki.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Hong Kong Museum of History.
Hong Kong Science Museum.
Hong Kong Space Museum.
Museums listed by the Hong Kong Tourist Association

Iceland

India

Indian Museum (unofficial), Calcutta.
National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay.
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi.
Indian museums.
Forts and palaces including the Taj Mahal.

Ireland

Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
Dungarvan Museum, Waterford.
The Garda Museum, Dublin Castle. Museum of Ireland's national police force.
Guinness Hopstore, Dublin. Includes a Transport Museum section.
Hunt Museum, University of Limerick. Art and antiquities.
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

Israel

Babylonian Jewry Museum, Or-Yehuda. History of the Jews of Babylon.
Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv. Includes a virtual exhibition.
Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem.
Edith and Rubin Hecht Museum, Haifa University. Archaeology and paintings.
Ghetto Fighters' House Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Western Galilee.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Includes Dead Sea Scrolls - Shrine of the Book, Judaica and Jewish ethnography, fine art, Archaeological Museum Rockefeller, East Jerusalem Art Center Paley, and Ticho House.
Israel National Museum of Science, Daniel and Matilde Recanati Center, Haifa.
Jerusalem Mosaic. Information, exhibits and images about Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Kuwait

Tareq Rajab Museum, Hawelli.

Lebanon

Lithuania

Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius.
National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius.

Macao

Macao Museum of Art.
The Museum of Macau, opened in 1998 in the old fortress.

Malaysia

Maritime Archaeology Museum, Malacca.

Netherlands

7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.
Anne Frank House, Amsterdam.
Virtual Anne Frank House.
Centraal Museum Utrecht. The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands, including historical works of art and the Rietveld Schröder house (1924).
Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Art collection including Mondrian and Escher.
Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven. Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923).
Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University. Archectural Guide and Gallery.
Limburgs Museum, Limburg. Includes multimedia using RealAudio.
Museon, The Hague. Science and natural history: geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology physics and technology, ethnology.
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine.
Museum Gevangenpoort, The Hague.
National Museum of Coins and Medals, Leiden.
National Museum of Ethnography, Leiden.
Natural History Museum, Maastricht.
Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg. Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design.
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The Software Museum, Amsterdam. Early computer software disk directory listings.
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country. Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave.
Technical Museum of the University of Delft.
Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Fossils and minerals, scientific instruments, medals and coins, paintings, prints and drawings. Oldest public museum and the first virtual museum in the country.
University Museum, Utrecht.
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Mainly artworks by Vincent Van Gogh.
Zuiderzeemuseum.
Amsterdam museums.
Eindhoven museums.
Museums in the Netherlands.
Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums.
North Holland museums.
Museumboot, Amsterdam. Guided boat tour around major museums.

New Zealand

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Auckland WebMuseum. Online museum presenting Maori culture.
Howick Historical Village, Pakuranga, Auckland. A living museum recreating a British immigrant village of the Fencible settlement.
Matakohe Kauri Museum, Northland. Story of the Kauri tree, its timber and its gum.
National Maritime Museum, Auckland.
New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, Wanaka Airport. Includes links to other aviation museums on the Web.
Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex, Christchurch.
Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington. Art, history, Maori culture and the natural environment. A new museum opened in 1998.

Norway

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
Munch Museum, Oslo. Official museum of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
Museums of Natural History, Tøyen, Oslo.
Northern Lights Planetarium.
Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo.
Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo.
Tromsø Museum.

Poland

Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
The Distillery Museum, Lancut. Winner of the European Museum of the Year Award.
Museum of Art, Lodz.
Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium, Gdynia.
Saltmine "Wieliczka", Museum of Cracow salt-works, Wieliczka.
Wawelu Royal Castle, Cracow.
Museums, Lublin. (Also in Polish.)

Singapore

Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum. Singaporean artist whose works incorporate images, sculptures, poetry and music.
National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board. Includes Asia Civilisations Museum, Singapore History Museum and Singapore Art Museum. See also shop.
National University of Singapore museums. Includes the Lee Kong Chian Art Museum of Chinese Art and the Ng Eng Teng Gallery of sculpture and art.
Singapore Philatelic Museum. Stamps.

Slovakia

Povazske Museum, Zilina. History of the Slovak tinker's trade.
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava. Painting, sculpture, drawing, graphic art, applied art, industrial design, photography, naive art. (In Slovak.)
Slovak National Museum, Bratislava.
Slovak museums.

Slovenia

Museum of Modern History, Ljubljana.
National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana. Archaeology, history, applied arts, drawings and graphics.
Technical Museum of Slovenia, Bistra, Borovnica. Traffic, agriculture, textile, electricity, forestry, wood processing, hunting, fishing.