Virtual Museum - Other Online Museums

Other Online Museums

Most physical museums now have an online presence, with varying degrees of online information. At one end of the spectrum, museums provide simple contact and background information, and a listing of exhibitions (brochure museums). On the other end of the spectrum are museums that exist only online, or those that have a physical building but offer extensive online exhibits, interactive online features, multimedia, and searchable or browsable collections (content museums, learning museums, virtual museums).

The following are a few other museums online:

• America's Black Holocaust Museum is now an online-only museum that presents exhibits about the Black holocaust in the USA – beginning with the forced migration from Africa to the present. The museum's Four Themes are: Remembrance, Resistance, Redemption, and Reconciliation. The story is told through still and moving images, interpretive and original texts, interactivity, works of art.
• International Museum of Women is an online-only museum that does not have a physical building and instead offers online exhibitions about women's issues globally as well as an online community. Online exhibitions include "Imagining Ourselves" (launched 2006) about women's identity, "Women, Power and Politics" (2008), and "Economica: Women and the Global Economy" (2009).
• International New Media Gallery - an online museum specialising in contemporary moving image artwork. Its exhibitions are accompanied by an academic catalogue, online discussion platform and offline events. It is currently showing Corinne Silva: Wandering Abroad (November 2012 - March 2013).
• Google Art Project is an online compilation of high-resolution images of artworks from galleries worldwide, as well as a virtual tour of the galleries in which they are housed. The project was launched on 1 February 2011 by Google, and includes works in the Tate Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence.
• Movement Museum - Movement Museum is virtual online formation of open setup.
• The Museum of Soho, London - The Museum of Soho, London.
• artla.com a contemporary online art gallery at the Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California.
• Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art — the VMMNA is the first of its kind in Africa. Hosted by the Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria this virtual museum offers a good view of the development on Nigerian Art in the past fifty years.
• Blue World Web Museum — the Blue World Web Museum's Mission is to provide a virtual museum educational experience in the fields of maritime art and related activities.
• Tucson Gay Museum - the Tucson Gay Museum was the Worlds First Gay - LGBT All Virtual Museum with no physical building and comprehensive virtual online historical photographic, text, audio, manuscript, and video exhibits documenting Tucson Arizona's Gay History from the 1700s to the 2010s (Exhibits also include Gay - LGBT related historical items of Other Communities around the United States where the Tucson Gay Delegations often traveled). Online exhibitions are very extensive documenting not only the Gay History but also the History of the Time Periods and Events that influenced them. The project of collecting items began on Saturday June 3, 1967 by some local High School aged boys. The Tucson Gay Museum now fully immerses the visitor in the various historical time periods. The original effort started in 1967 culminated in the Grand Opening as an All Virtual Museum on Thursday September 1, 2010.
• UK's Culture24 — online guide to public museums, galleries, libraries, archives, heritage sites and science centres in the United Kingdom.
• Hampson Virtual Museum — allows visitors to digitally "check out" the museum's virtual objects for analysis and study. The museum consists of hundreds of high-resolution, laser-scanned representations of Native American pottery. The objects can be viewed and downloaded in formats that include Adobe's 3D PDF, "obj" and VRML/X3d. The museum also provides free access to downloadable software that can be used to conduct metric analysis of the digital objects. The digital objects can be freely reused under a Creative Common's 3 license.
• Virtual Museum of Canada — Canada's national virtual museum. With over 2,500 Canadian museums, the VMC brings together Canada's museums regardless of size or geographical location.
• Virtual Museum of Slovenia — National project by Slovenian Ministy of culture and Boštjan Burger. Project started in 2000 and ended in 2004 with vizualisation of over 106 Slovenian museums exhibitions with 1.162 museum locations.
• Museum With No Frontiers — launched its international website in 2007.
• Tucson Museum - The Tucson Museum founded in 1894, went All Virtual in 2008 due to rising operating costs and lack of building space to exhibit historical collections.- The Tucson Museum as an All Virtual Museum with no physical buildings highlights and preserves virtual online historical photographic, text, audio, manuscript, and video exhibits and collections documenting Tucson Arizona's Historical time periods from the 1600s to the 2010s.
• National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - launched in 2010, it is a comprehensive tour of the world's oldest and largest aviation museum, featuring more than 360 aerospace vehicles on over 17-acres of land.
• Virtual Museum of the History of Mineralogy photographs and descriptions of representative historical objects and information related to the early mineralogical and crystallographic sciences
• Hampson Museum -- 3D artifacts selected from the collections at the Hampson Archeological Museum State Park in Wilson, Arkansas
• Virtual Museum of Patagonian Fossils - Corals, petrified forests, trigoniids (form of bivalve mollusks). Bilingual in Spanish. Built by staffperson at Centro Atómico Bariloche (Argentina).
• mheu - virtual museum that offers thematic exhibitions comprising a range of works including pictures, literature, sound and video.
• Come2tell - 2008 Virtual online museum of Prehistoric Venus Figurine.
• Carnamah Historical Society & Museum - a West Australian community historical society with a small virtual museum.
• The East Indies Museum - the online museum exhibiting an eclectic array of artworks from insular southeast Asia, including antique textiles, wayang puppets, keris, masks, folk art, silver ...
• Museum Syndicate -an on-line museum of worldwide art of painting, architecture and photography including rare art master pieces which are difficult to find elsewhere
• The Museum of Online Museums – catalogues and curates museum websites
• Museum of Antique Sewing Machines – The Gravesham Private Collection of Antique Sewing Machines - an on-line museum.