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Museum organisations

Australian

• Australian Museum - Virtual Museum of the Pacific
• Collections Australia Network - online services for all public access collecting organisations
• DISACT - disaster recovery resource for public collections in the ACT
• Insite - bi-monthly newsletter of Museums Australia (Vic branch)
• Museums Australia - peak body representing museums and galleries
• Museum and Gallery Services Queensland
• National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame - preserving the place of women in history for their special contribution to Australia's heritage

New Zealand

• Museums Aotearoa - professional organisation for museums and museum workers in Aotearoa, New Zealand
• NZMuseums - a global showcase for the collections and activities of New Zealand museums

International

• Finnish Museums Association
• ICOM - International Council of Museums
• ICOM-CIDOC - International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums
• ICOM-CIMCIM - International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections
• ICOM-ICAMT - International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques
• ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites
• Museum Computer Network - non-profit organisation of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies
• Museum Jobs.com - worldwide gallery and heritage recruitment service, including Australia
• Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections - multidisciplinary organization composed of individuals who are interested in development and preservation of natural history collections
• UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United States

• AAM - American Association of Museums
• AMICO - Art Museum Image Consortium: not-for-profit association of institutions with collections of art that have come together to enable educational use of the digital documentation of their collections
• Archives and Museum Informatics - US consulting firm that run the Museums and the Web international conference
• IMLS - Institute of Museum and Library Services, US Government institution
• MIP - Museum Informatics Project, a collaborative effort at the University of California, Berkeley, to coordinate the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non-book collections
• Visitor Studies Association

United Kingdom

• Association of Independent Museums (UK)
• Cornucopia - database on UK museum collections
• MDA (link to be updated) - British site "supporting cultural information management"
• Museums Association - largest association representing Museums and Galleries in Great Britain
• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (UK) (to be updated) - council no longer exists; some functions incorporated in Arts Council England
• Scotland's Information - identifies, locates and accesses Scotland's archive, library and museum collections

Canada

• Canadian Museums Association
• AMNB - Association Museums of New Brunswick, Canada
• BCMA - British Columbia Museums Association, Canada
• Ontario Museum Association - Canada
• MANL - Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Museums Alberta - Canada
• YHMA - Yukon Historical and Museums Association, Canada

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Museology

• The Art Newspaper - Museums
• Accounting for audiences in Australian museums - by Dawn Casey
• American Association of Museums
• Australian Museum Audience Research
• BUBL LINK link.bubl.ac.uk/museums/ (link to be updated) - Catalogue of selected Internet resources
• Canadian Museum of Civilization - online resources for Canadian heritage
• CIDOC CRM website
• Cultivate interactive - e-journal aimed at the European cultural heritage community including IT staff, information professionals, researchers, managers, policy makers, libraries, museums, archives, galleries and non-profit making organisations
• Museological Bibliography Project - Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto
• Departmental and Faculty Online Resources - complied by the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK
• Des Griffin.com - find out about museums and what's happening in the museum world
• Global Museum 2000 - Museum resources
• Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year
• H-Museum: Network for Museum Professionals
• ICOM - bibliography of ICOM publications 1946 - to date
• Indigenous Youth and Museums - full text of the report
• Information sources in Museum Studies - University of Leicester, UK
• Institute for Learning Innovation
• Learning with Museums - Virtual Museum, Canada
• Links to useful museum and library websites - Institute of Museum and Library Services (US)
• MOUSEIA - festival of the Muses, an online resource centre for museum professionals and museologists
• MMP - Museum Management Program, National Center for Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnership Programs (USA)
• Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal - list of articles, not all in English
• Museology Resources - Algonquin College, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
• Museum Learning Initiative - part of the UK 'Museums South West' web site - http://www.mlasouthwest.org.uk/mli/muslin.htm (link to be updated)
• Museum Marketing Tips (link to be updated) http://www.museummarketingtips.com/
• Museum studies - internationally accredited museum studies courses compiled by Global Museum ezine (link to be updated - http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/museum_studies.html)
• Museums in the information age - UK site (link to be updated -http://www.suzannekeene.info/infoage/museum.htm)
• Reinwardt Acadamy - bibliographies compiled by Peter van Mensch
• Sydney Line - website of Keith Windschuttle

Standards

• Standards and Controlled Vocabulary SIG resource links (link to be updated http://www.mcn.edu/resources/sigstandards/index.htm) - links to some of the computer-related and controlled vocabulary standards most useful for museum functions
• Museum and cultural heritage information standards and organisations - links and contact details from the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums
• Collections Australia Network (CAN) - The National Standards for Australian Museums and Galleries

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Museums

To search for a specific museum not listed here, try Collections Australia network (CAN) for Australian museums or the WWW Virtual Library Museums page maintains a comprehensive listing of museums around the world and includes a search facility. Try also Museum.com.

Australian

• Australian Museum
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Australian War Memorial
• Immigration Museum - Victoria
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
• Museum of Victoria
• National Gallery of Australia
• Physics Museum - University of Melbourne
• Powerhouse Museum

• Museums around the world - Australia
• Museums and Galleries of the Blue Mountains - Blue Mountains, Sydney
• Heide Museum of Modern Art - Victoria
• Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Launceston, Tasmania
• Queensland Museum
• National Film and Sound Archive
• South Australian Museum
  • Ingarnendi - Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery
• St George Regional Museum - Hurstville, NSW
• Western Australian Museum

International

United Kingdom

• 24 Hour Museum - information about the UK's museums and galleries
• Aviation Museums - England
• British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
• British Museum
  • Compass - selection of digitised objects from the British Museum collection
• Cole Museum of Zoology - University of Reading
• Cornucopia - discover the pre-eminent designated museum collections in England (Museums and Galleries Commission)
• Explosion! - Museum of Naval Firepower, Hampshire
• Fiber Related Museums and Galleries
• Fitzwilliam Museum - art museum of the University of Cambridge
• Hantsweb - discover museums in Hampshire
• Hopping down in Kent - museum of Kent Life, Cobtree
• Imperial War Museum
• Library and Museum of Freemasonry
• Motor museums (link to be updated http://www.motorsnippets.com/museums_index.asp) - road transport museums in the UK
• Museum of Costume - Bath
• Museum of London
• Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (link to be updated http://www.msim.org.uk/)
• MuseumNet - UK listing
• Museums in Scotland - Scottish Museums Council
• Museums of Kirklees - West Yorkshire, UK
• National Media Museum - Bradford, UK
• National Portrait Gallery
• National Railway Museum
• Natural History Museum - London, UK
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
• Shambellie House - Museum of Costume
• Sikh Cyber Museum
• St. Albans museums - find out about Verulamium, the museum of everyday life in Roman Britain, and the Museum of St. Albans itself
• Tate Modern - Britain's new national museum of modern art
• Torquay Museum
• Victoria and Albert Museum - London
• V & A online media channel
• V & A online journal
• Virtual Libraries Museum Page - Oxford University Computing Laboratory

Europe

• Alicante Museum of Archaeology
• Chateau of Versailles
• Galleria degli Uffizi - Florence, Italy
• Home page of the Hungarian Museums
• Louvre
• Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Turin, Italy
• Museum links - Ireland
• Museum of Bags and Purses - Amstelveen, Netherlands
• Museums in Russia - some 400 sites listed, many in Russian only (some faulty links)
• National Museum - Prague, Czech Republic
• National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
• Ulster Museum
• Ulster American Folk Park
• Armagh County Museum
• National Transport Museum of Ireland
• Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam
• Sigmund Freud Museum
• State Hermitage Museum - St Petersburg, Russia
• Vasa Museum - Stockholm, Sweden
• Vatican Museums

Other

• Egypt's CultureNet (link to be updated http://www.idsc.gov.eg/culture/mus.htm) - list of links to Egyptian and other museum sites with Egyptian focus
• Eternal Egypt - sites and museums
• Fiji Museum
• International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections
• Links to South African Museums (link to be updated http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/mus/sa.htm) - from University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Museum Server - hosted in the Netherlands, links to many museums all over the world
• Museum Stuff - one of the world's leading gateways to educational and entertaining museum stuff
• Museums of the World (link to be updated http://www.museum.com")
• National Museums of Kenya
• National Museum of Namibia (link to be updated http://196.20.25.140/newindex.html)
• New Zealand Museums
• Otago Museum - Dunedin, New Zealand
• Virtual library museums pages - a distributed directory of online museums
• UMAC worldwide database - of University museums and collections
• Yad Vashem - Jerusalem, Israel

United States

• The Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• Andy Warhol Museum - from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• American Textile History Museum
• ArchNet Museum Links - more than 100 worldwide links from the University of Connecticut
• The Bata Shoe Museum
• Museum of Yo-Yo History
• The Field Museum Chicago
• The Henry Ford Museum
• Exploris - 'world's first global experience center' (North Caroline)
• International Banana Club and Museum
• The J Paul Getty Trust
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York
• Museum of Museums - will eventually contain links to every museum on the planet
• Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals
• National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC
  • Anatomy of an exhibition - behind the scenes glimpse at 'Art Nouveau, 1890-1914'
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Museum of Women in the Arts - focuses on the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - selection of online exhibits
• Page Museum - La Brea Tar Pits, California
• Smithsonian Institution online collections
• Stanley Museum
• The Textile Museum - US based, but non-Western collection
  • Flowers of silk and gold - complementary website to the exhibition 'Four Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery'
• Victoriana.Com Study Center - links to Museum and Historical Society Web Sites, operated by Victoriana - Resources for Victorian Living
• Virtual Victorian Beaded Bags and Purse Museum
• Women of the West - Autry National Center, dedicated to diverse women's experiences in the American West

Canada

• Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
• Canadian War Museum
• Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library and Archives
• Kelowna Museum Association - comprising of the Kelowna Museum, Orchard Museum, The Laurel Packinghouse, and Okanagan Military Museum
• MOUSEIA - online resource centre for museologists and museum professionals
• Musee du Fjord - La Baie, Quebec
• Museum of Anthropology - at the University of British Columbia
• Museum of Natural History - a part of the Nova Scotia Museum
• Museum on Tower Hill - West Parry Sound District Museum
• Nova Scotia Museum
• Regina Plains Museum
• Royal Ontario Museum
• Sir Alexander Galt Museum and Archives
• Virtual Museum Canada - links every museum in Canada and their archives in one place as well as providing online exhibits

Asia

• Shanghai Museum - Museum of Chinese Art
• Hong Kong museum of History - part of the WWW Virtual Library museums pages
• Museums in Japan - part of the WWW Virtual Library museums pages
• South Asia Museums and Libraries (link to be updated http://www.nla.gov.au/southasia/government.html) - from the National Library of Australia

Children's Museums

• La Habra - California
• Canadian Children's Museum
• Children's Discovery - Sydney
• Children's Museum - Boston
• Children's Museum of Denver
• Children's Museum of Memphis
• Children's Museum of Portsmouth - UK
• Children's Museums Around The World - list of children's museum from Florida, USA
• Capital Children's Museum - Washington DC
• Eureka - Britain's first and only interactive museum designed especially for children between 3 and 12 years
• Hands On Children's Museum
• Kohl Children's Museum - Wilmette, Illinois

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Museums and Sustainability

• Museums Association - sustainability reading
• Museums Association - sustainability and museums

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