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The Metropolitan Museum of Art I especially like the education section of this museum. The best areas for online visitors are the For Kids section, the Looking at Art section and the Indexes section. The collections and exhibits do not have enough pictures to really show online visitors what the collection or exhibit is like. 6/28/99
National Gallery of Art Washington
D.C. The virtual tours on this museum are excellent, possibly
the best on the web. The virtual tours allow you to move through the exhibits,
zoom in on items and listen to descriptions of the work and artist. Going
through the virtual tours of this museum is as close as you can get to actually
visiting the museum. (There are both virtual tours and slide show type tours.)
6/28/99
Louvre Museum This museum has a good virtual tour area and a good collections area for online visitors. The main drawback to this site is that if your screen isn't wide enough part of the page gets cut off and there is no scroll bar to get to it. I think this is due to the use of frames on the page. 6/25/99
J. Paul Getty Museum Home Page This museum has a collection of art that is from all time periods. The best area to look in is the Collections Overview. This area has the best online content. There are many pictures with descriptions. The other areas are designed to convince people to visit the museum. 6/25/99
Museum of Modern Art, New York The Art Safari for Families is the best part of this museum. This is a good place for kids to go to learn about art and then create their own artwork that can be submitted and viewed by others. There is also a good explanation of some of the terms used in art in this section. There aren't enough photographs in the looking at photographs exhibit. The Alfred Hitchock and Conversations with Artists are OK, but both could use more interactive elements, especially the Conversations with Artists. There aren't enough pictures of the work the artists have done. 6/28/99
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston This museum has an extensive online collection of art. Unlike other museums that show only a few of their works, this one shows numerous pieces for each artist or topic. It isn't as interactive; it has less movies and audio clips than some of the other museums, but the content makes up for this. 6/28/99
Musee d'Orsay - Paris This museum has panoramic tours of their collections, however, there is no zoom feature so if you see a statue or picture that you would like to look at closer, you can't. There are only selected works that you can view closer. 6/29/99
Chateau de Versailles Good website. There are pictures, but there is only a minimal description of what the piece is and the history behind it. There are some good descriptions of Versailles, its history and the daily lives of the kings who lived there. 6/29/99
Michael C. Carlos Museum The best place to visit is the Odyssey Online. Odyssey Online says that various plug-ins are needed, however, the video clips and audio clips are minimal and you probably won't miss much if you don't have the plug-ins. The Permanent Collection has good content, but the graphics are small and the overall design of the pages not very interesting. If you are looking for information, don't leave just because the pages look boring. 6/30/99
The Art Institute of Chicago The pages take a VERY, VERY long time to download. Also, once the page is done loading, there are broken images. Most of the images aren't good enough to justify the incredibly long time it takes them to download. The collections section is where the best online content is. 6/30/99
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre This museum has mechanical toys that you can see working and rotate around to view from different angles. To see the different toys, you should take the tour. You can also find out about the artists who create the toys in the Artists section. 7/6/99
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