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MUSEUMS
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Alexandria Archaeology
Museum
City archaeologists, volunteers, and students work with citizens and developers to locate
sites important to the community's past, and when necessary, excavate them scientifically.
Ancient
Olympic Games Virtual Museum
A plethora of information about these contests that are the
forefathers of our modern Olympic Games.
Archaeological
Museum of Bologna, Italy
Important collections of prehistoric, Etruscan, Roman, Greek and Egyptian archaeology.
Archaeological Museum, Kibbutz Ein Dor
Archaeologisches
Landesmuseum Baden-Wurttemberg
Aussenstelle Konstanz State Museum.
Archaeology Museum of
Catalonia
Iberian, Greek and Roman art in Catalonia.
Ashmolean
Museum
Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum was established in 1683,
and is the oldest public museum in the UK. The main building on Beaumont Street was
designed by the architect Charles Robert Cockerell and opened in 1845. The museum's large
collection of plaster casts from classical sculpture is housed in a separate building, the
Cast Gallery. The Cast Gallery also houses the Beazley Archive.
The British Museum
This Web site will provide you with access to information
about the collections on display in the museum's galleries and will help you plan your
visit.
Cagliari (Sardinia) Archaeological Museum
Classical Collections of the Otago Museum
Fine Arts Museum San Francisco
Harvard
Semitic Museum
The Semitic Museum, founded in 1889, is home to Harvard's
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and to the University's collections
of Near Eastern archaeological artifacts. These collections comprise over 40,000 items,
including pottery, cylinder seals, sculpture, coins and cuneiform tablets. Most are from
museum-sponsored excavations in Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Cyprus and Tunisia. The
Museum is dedicated to the use of these collections for teaching, research and publication
of Near Eastern archaeology, history and culture.
Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard
University - Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Houses treasures of prehistoric and historic cultures from all over the world.
Hunterian
Museum, University of Glasgow
The Hunterian Museum was built on the grounds of the
University of Glasgow which lay then on Glasgow's High Street. Opened to the public in
1807, it is thus the oldest public museum in Scotland. In 1870 the Museum was transferred,
along with the rest of the University, to its present home at Gilmorehill in the western
suburbs of the city.
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, University of Memphis
Iraklion
Archaeological Museum (Crete)
Minoan Civilization.
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan
Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Krannert Art Museum opened its doors in 1961, incorporating
existing University and other fine arts collections. In 1988 a new wing called the Kinkead
Pavilion was added, almost doubling the building's size to 48,000 sq. ft. It is the
largest art museum in the state of Illinois outside Chicago. A significant part of the
Museum's permanent collection of 9,000 works of art is displayed in 10 different
galleries, ranging from the fourth millennium B.C. to the present. In addition, the Museum
has a very active education program that serves seniors, adults, families, university
faculty/staff and students, and 65,500 K-12 students and teachers throughout a 9-county
region.
Louvre, Paris: Home Page, Oriental Galleries, Egyptian Galleries, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Galleries
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and
finest art museums in the world. Its collections include more than two million works of
art -- several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time - spanning more
than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
Michael
C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is located within Emory
University and serves its community as well the general public. Its permanent collection
of over 15,000 objects spans nearly 9,000 years from the prehistoric cultures of seventh
millennium B.C. to the twentieth century. The museum also offers special exhibitions,
lectures, films, and workshops, as well as the Caffe Antico.
Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History
Museo Arqueologico del Banco del Pacifico - Guayaquil, Ecuador
Museum of Antiquities
The Museum of Antiquities is the major museum of archaeology
in north east England. Its visitors are those who wish to know more about the history of
the region, especially Hadrian's Wall. It has a renowned collection of artefacts, models
and diagrams relating to the Wall, and a full-scale reconstruction of the Temple to
Mithras at Carrawburgh along the Wall. Other displays illustrate the variety of life in
the region before and after the Romans. The Museum is based on the collection formed by
the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and it is run by the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne.
Musuem
of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
The Museum's galleries house art and artifacts from six
continents and five millennia. This comprehensive collection of more than 13,000 works
represents many periods and cultures from prehistory to the present. The permanent
collection is supplemented by special exhibitions as well as lectures, symposia, gallery
talks, film series, and educational programs offered throughout the year.
Museum of
Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge
The Museum of Classical Archaeology is one of the few
surviving collections of casts of Greek & Roman sculpture in the world. The public
collection of the Museum is made up of over six hundred plaster casts of Greek and Roman
sculptures. The collection is housed on the first floor of the Classics Faculty.
Museum of Nova Scotia - Archaeology in N.S.
Museums of Sigtuna
Collections feature Viking artifacts excavated from the area.
Musée
Schwab
Musée d'archéologie et préhistoire.
National Archaeological Museum
of Athens
One of the richest collections in the world concerning ancient Greek art. Its scope is
representative of all the cultures that have flourished in Greece.
The
Oriental Institute
The Oriental Institute Museum is a showcase of the history,
art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. An integral part of the University of
Chicago's Oriental Institute, which has supported research and archaeological excavation
in the Near East since 1919, the Museum exhibits major collections of antiquities from
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and Anatolia.
Rockefeller
Archaeological Museum
Houses the extraordinary collection of antiquities unearthed in digs in the country during
the British Mandate period (1920-1948).
Simon Fraser University - Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
St.
Vincent National Museum
Contains artifacts from Pre-Columbian Indians, Arawaks, and Carib civilizations.
Statens Historiska
Museum
Musuem of National Antiquities, featuring Swedish archaeology from prehistoric to medieval
times.
University of Kansas - Museum of Anthropology
University
of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
The Museum of Anthropology is one of the major archaeological
research and teaching facilities in the United States. The Museum does not maintain
exhibit space and its collections are usually not available for public viewing. This web
site is designed to make available images and information about selected collections from
the Museum holdings.
University Museum,
University of Pennsylvania: Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology
MASCA is the technical division of The University of
Pennsylvania Museum. When it was established in 1961, it was one of only two organizations
worldwide that set as its research goal the development and application of modern
scientific techniques to the solution of archaeological problems. Under the initial
direction of Beth Ralph, MASCA built its reputation through contributions to major
improvements in the radiocarbon dating method, including the development of the first
calibration curves based on tree-ring dates. Researchers at MASCA also designed the cesium
magnetometer, which could resolve the ground plans and unusual features of deep-lying
sites.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University Museums,
University of Mississippi
The University Museums at the University of Mississippi
consist of the Mary Buie Museum built in 1939 and the Kate Skipwith Teaching Museum
completed in 1977. The Museums' collections represent the fields of archaeology, art,
anthropology, decorative arts, history, science and technology. Of special note are the
David M. Robinson Collection, (60 Vase Painters in the Robinson Collection), the
Millington-Barnard Collection of nineteenth-century scientific apparatus and the extensive
collection of Southern Folk Art which features the works of Oxford artist Theora Hamblett.
Also of note are the Meyer-Fulton Collection of West African art and the Lewisohn
Collection of Caribbean folk art.
Virtual Library entry for museums
World Wide Arts
Resources
Provide the largest and most comprehensive gateway to the arts on the Internet - from
happening, groovin' art events to traditional planar exhibitions and museums to way out
3-D cyber galleries.
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