Virtual Library

Museums

You are virtual "visitor" number:

Jodi Mattess Access Award, 20 May 2003

• Online information
• Museums Associations
• Discussion groups
• Addresses
• Online slides for talks on museums and the Internet by Jonathan Bowen
• Disabled access on-line
• Museophile discussion forums including a questionnaire
• VLmp RDF feed - validated; also syndicated by Syndic8

• Art Museum Network, North America.
• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
• Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI).
• Conservation OnLine: CoOL is devoted to information concerning the conservation of museum, library, and archives information.
• ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites.
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - US federal museum funding agency (ex Institute of Museum Services, IMS).
• French Ministry of Culture.
• National Archives (NARA), USA.
• Museum Informatics Project, Berkeley, USA. Online collections databases, hypertext directory of museum standards activities, hypertext directory of campus museum and non-book collections and much more!
• The Risk Map of Cultural Heritage, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Italy. Maintenance and restoration programs for architectural, archaeological and historical-artistic items. (In English and Italian.)
• Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK. See also conferences and publications information, including Carry on Collecting?, University of Leicester, 14-17 April 1996.
• ECSITE (European Collaborative for Science, Industry and Technology Exhibitions), a non-profit collaborative of museums and science and technology centres.
• Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London, UK. Europe's largest interdisciplinary centre for arts, museums and heritage policy and management studies and research. Includes some ICOM information.
• Society of American Archivists, Chicago, USA. Identification, preservation, and use of the nation's historical record.
• Auctions On-Line, a database of fine art, antiques and collectibles for potential buyers.
• Christie's International auction house.
• Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway conference proceedings, Science Museum, London, UK, 10 May 1995.
• EVA: Electronic imaging & the Visual Arts conference information, the VASARI project and enterprises (Visual Arts System Archiving, Retrieval & Imaging), RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archives, in English, Spanish, French and German), etc., from Brameur.
• Heritage conservation and historic preservation, information gathered and edited by the Conservation Department of the State Library of Victoria, Australia.
• INSAM directory of on-line Swedish museums, including email addresses.
• The Museum Professional including on-line resources by Harold Robinson, Department of Museum Studies, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California, USA. A navigation tool for museum professionals.
• Museum Employment Resource Center (MERC), USA.
• Eurocare - European Union network for heritage conservation, restoration and maintenance.
• Australian Museums Information System (AMIS). Includes a searchable. museums directory. See also searching Australian museum collections.
• Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University, USA.
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport (ex Department of National Heritage), UK Government. Includes information on museums & galleries, National Lottery and heritage. See museums index and try museum search. See press releases, including Virginia Bottomley Publishes Museum Policy Review (31 July 1996).
• Heritage Lottery Fund, UK.
• Millennium Commission, UK. See links to related organizations.
• English Heritage (including the Archaeology Division).
• Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), UK.
• Royal Commission on the Historical Manuscripts, UK. Includes links to other archives
• Hampshire County Council Museums Service, UK. Includes browsing classifications, search of museums objects records and OBJECT Format Rules (OFR) for comprehensive terminology control.
• Somerset County Museums Service, UK. See Avalon 2000 eco-museum millennium bid.
• Art, culture, education, libraries and marketing conferences.
• Aquarelle, the Information Network on Cultural Heritage. European collaborative project. (In English and French.)
• Z39.50 resources, a protocol standard supporting remote access to distributed documentation systems, from the official maintenance agency.
• SGML Web Page, a language standard supporting the specification of complex document structures.
• L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts), France.
• Heritage Online, from Heritage Learning Inc. Includes Museums in the Classroom: A Model for Learning course.
• Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies, Department of Conservation and Museum Studies, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK. Online publication, also mirrored in the USA.
• ITEM Knowledge Base (Image TEchnology in Museums and art galleries) from IVAIN (International Visual Arts Information Network). Information about interactive multimedia publications and museum image databases (subscription service).
• ALHFAM (Association for Living History, Farms and Agricultural Museums). a museum organization for those involved in living historical farms, agricultural museums, outdoor museums of history and folklife, etc. Affiliated to AAM.
• AIDA (Association for International Display of Art).
• Archives & Museum Informatics: consulting, publishing and training for cultural heritage professionals, founded by David Bearman in 1986. See Museums and the Web: An International Conference, Los Angeles, California, USA, 16-19 March 1997.
• Museum Security Network.
• Arts and Humanities Data Service, UK. Launched 16 January 1997. See VLmp gateway information.
• Archives and Museum Informatics journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. See also Computers and the Humanities.
• Group for Education in Museums, UK.
• The Getty. See:
  • Getty Information Institute, California, USA. Includes the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the Union List of Artist Names searchable on-line browsers.
  • ArtsEdNet.
• Museum Security Network, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (In English and Dutch.)
• Musée. See curriculum builder and Museum E-Pro.
• International Centre for the Study and Preservation of Cultural Property (ICCROM, in English and French).
• Museums, Sponsors and the Internet and Museum and Gallery Web Sites - Ideas for Content from Cognitive Applications Limited, Brighton, UK.
• Dublin Core Metadata. See also metadata standards directory.
• Museumsworld, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK. See links and professional bodies, addresses and contact details.
• Museum Jobs worldwide.
• Museum Job Resources Online.
• International Travelling Exhibition Database, The Humanities Exchange, USA. (Registration and fee required.)
• The Arts Council, UK.
• European Heritage Forum. (In English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.) See also Conservare nv, Belgium.
• MAG (Museums and Galleries) Online, UK. What's on guide.
• Sharing Museum Skills Millennium Awards, UK.
• Medici Framework, a European Commission initiative on ICT and new technologies for Cultural Heritage.
• Virtual FishTank (The Computer Museum, Boston) and Online Art for Kids (Museum of Modern Art, New York) examples of museum use of Java technology.
• Gallery Systems relational database.
• Culture information from UNESCO. (IN English, French and Spanish.)
• Willoughby Associates, Illinois, USA. Museum automation systems. See the Intermuse division including the Multi MIMSY database.
• European Museums' Information Institute (EMII).
• Instituto Latinoamericano de Museologia (ILAM). Includes a directory of Latin American museums by country.
• MuseumStuff.com Professional Edition.
• Museum Survey on the Web results, September 1998.
• Cultural Heritage and EC Funding information from Wendy Sudbury.
• Virtual Heritage Network (VHN).
• The "Official" Museum Directory (products and services), USA.
• Global Museum webzine.
• Office de Coopération et d'Information Muséographiques (OCIM), Dijon, France. Coodinator and resources centre for the museums community, especially in the fields of science, technology and industry.
• London Museums Agency, UK.
• London's Museums, Archives and Libraries (LMAL), UK.
• Museum Marketing Tips by Katherine Khalife.
• The Museums & Galleries Disability Association (MAGDA), UK.

• American Association of Museums, USA.
• Association of Independent Museums (AIM), UK.
• The Association of Science and Technology Museums of Serbia.
• Canadian Museums Association, Canada.
  See also Ontario Museum Association (OMA).
• Finnish Museums Association, Finland. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)
• Museums Aotearoa, New Zealand.
• The Museums Association, UK.
• Museums Australia.
• Museums Trading Association, UK.
• The Netherlands Museums Association, Holland. (De Nederlandse Museumvereniging.) (Also in English.) See also:
  • Museum Pass Foundation. (In Dutch.)
  • Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam. Master's Degree Programme in Museology.
• South African Museums Association (SAMA), South Africa.

Discussion groups for museums

subscribe Museum-L Your name or institution

This list is gatewayed to one of the on-line newsgroups, bit.listserv.museum-l (also via Google), available at many news sites. Search for Museum-l newsgroup articles from Google.

There is a CIDOC-L email list for discussion on museum documentation. Email listserv@nrm.se with a message as follows to subscribe to the list:

subscribe CIDOC-L Your_first_name  Your_last_name

CIDOC members (only) may also join the CIDOC-NET list for discussion of Internet issues by substituting CIDOC-NET for CIDOC-L in the message above.

Additionally, there is an ICOM-Announce email list for announcements concerning ICOM. Email listserv@doc.nrm.se with a message as follows to join this list:

subscribe ICOM-Announce Your_first_name  Your_last_name

The newsgroup rec.arts.misc (also via Google) might be another forum for discussion on some aspects of museums.

The newsgroup uk.culture.museums (also via Google) (formed in November 1998) discusses UK museums.

Search for museum-related articles in Google groups.

See H-MUSEUM, the H-Net Network for museum professionals (ISSN 1618-0534).

Discussion forums including VLmp discussions from Museophile.

Search for museum-related ListServ mailing lists from L-Soft.

See also the excellent discussion lists, distribution lists and forums page from ICOM.

International Council of Museums (ICOM)

Main address (ICOM headquarters):

ICOM
Maison de l'UNESCO 1, rue Miollis, 75732 PARIS Cedex 15, France
Tel: +33 1 47 34 05 00
Fax: +33 1 43 06 78 62

International Documentation Committee (CIDOC):

Andrew Roberts (CIDOC Chair)
53 Shelford Road, Cambridge CB2 2LZ, UK
Tel: +44-1223-841181
Fax: +44-1223-842136
Email: 73064.1142@compuserve.com

The following are available on-line:

• ICOM Committees, including National Committees, International Committees and Regional Groups.
• International Committee for Exhibition Exchange (ICEE).
• REMUNERE: Registry of Museum Network Resources (proposal).
• Sources of information: museums and the Internet.

Musedoma, founded by ICOM and the J. Paul Getty Trust to oversee the .museum top-level domain name. See list of second-level domain names and a Google search for .museum websites. Note: Inclusion in the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) does not confer an automatic right to granting of a .museum domain name.

See also International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM).

French Ministry of Culture

Laurent Manoeuvre
6 rue de Pyramides, 75001 PARIS, France
Tel: +33 1 40 15 35 37
Fax: +33 1 40 15 35 30
Email: manoeuvre@culture.fr

Bruno MANNONI
Dipartement de l'organisation et des systhmes d'information
Fort de St Cyr, 78182 St Quentin en Yvelines CEDEX, France
Tel: +33 1 30 85 68 18
Fax: +33 1 30 85 68 68
Email: mannoni@culture.fr

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)

Canadian Heritage Information Network, 15 Eddy Street, (15-4-A), Hull, Quebec, CANADA K1A 0M5
Tel: +1-819-994-1200 / 1-800-520-2446 (Canada and USA)
Fax: +1-819-994-9555
Email: service@chin.gc.ca

An agency of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.

See Guide to Canadian Museums and Heritage Forum for discussion.

American Association of Museums (AAM)

• 90th Annual Meeting (1995), from the Museum Computer Network.
• National Association for Museum Exhibition (NAME).
• Online Bookstore Catalogue.
• Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM).

Museum Computer Network (MCN)

MCN, 65 Enterprise, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA
Tel: +1-877-626-3800 ext 215
Fax: +1-949-330-7621
Email: fred.droz@mcn.edu

See also the American Association of Museums.

The Museums Association, UK

The Museums Association
42 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0PA, UK
Tel: +44-20-7608-2933
Fax: +44-20-7250-1929
Email: info@museumsassociation.org

See related museum organizations list and electronic gateway to UK museums by region.

10% discount if you join through the Internet!

Resource: The Council for Museums, Archive and Libraries, UK

Resource
16 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1 9AA, UK
Tel: +44-20-7273-1444
Fax: +44-20-7273-1404
Email: info@resource.gov.uk

See also Cornucopia (UK collections information) and links to Area Museum Councils.

Museum Documentation Association (MDA)

Museum Documentation Association
Lincoln House, 347 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge CB11 4DH, UK
Tel: +44-1223-242848
Fax: +44-1223-213575
Email: mda@mda.org.uk

See UK museums email directory and wordHOARD guide to terminology resources relevant to museums.

See also:

• The 24 Hour Museum project.

• Museums Copyright Group

Museums Computer Group (MCG)

Smithsonian Institution

• Museum Support Center.
• Education FTP server from the SI Office of Elementary and Secondary Education providing educational materials for students and teachers.
• Photography FTP server containing images from and of museum collections in various formats.
• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) proving interactive telnet access to research catalogs maintained by SI libraries, archives, and research units, containing information about books, serials, archives & manuscripts, films, sound recordings, paintings, and sculptures.
• Center for Museum Studies (CMS), an outreach office focusing on museum studies, training, information and professional service.

• Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation and Archaeology including WWW-based Information Servers.

• Towards open multimedia access to the world's cultural heritage: Museums and galleries, Theme 5 in the G7 pilot projects, G-7 Information Society Conference, February 1995. See G-7 Pilot Projects progress report, June 1995.

• International Virtual Reality Heritage Convention, organized by Pavilions of Splendour, UK.

• Nordic Museology, the Journal on Nordic museums and museology. See introduction, museum resources list and Nordic museums links.

• Cultural Resource Management Program, Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria, Canada. Includes Museums on the World Wide Web: Creating Your Site, 21-23 February, 1996, and Distance Education Courses.

• Museums on the Web Survey Results and interactive form for museums from The Computer Museum.

• Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab, investigating how new technology enables new ways of thinking, learning, and designing, and exploring the resulting change in real-world settings, such as schools and museums. One project involves The Computer Clubhouse at The Computer Museum, Boston, USA.

• The Museum of the Future by Walter Lippman, The Atlantic Monthly magazine, October 1948.

• Museum resources and the Internet by Leonard D. Will, Willpower Information, December 1996.

• Click Systems, Milton Keynes, UK. Museum showcases - e.g., see museum projects around the world.

• Custom photographic services for museum collections, USA.

• Ministries of Culture around the world listed by the Danish Ministry of Culture.