Helpful Museum Websites

[cuddyclothes]

When researching, browse the websites of these world-class museums!  Suggestions gratefully accepted.


ENGLAND

Victoria and Albert (Collections)
From their website:The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

National Army Museum

The British Museum
From the website: The Museum is driven by an insatiable curiosity for the world, a deep belief in objects as reliable witnesses and documents of human history, sound research, as well as the desire to expand and share knowledge.

London Transit Museum

National Maritime Museum

UNITED STATES

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Enormous art and historical collections. One of the largest art museums in the world. Incredible Old Masters collections.
Costume Institute

American Museum of Natural History

Museum Of The City Of New York (Collections)

New-York Historical Society
A small museum with great resources

The National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.

Additional Museums from sweetsorcery ! Thank you!

Some more for England. :)

Imperial War Museums
https://www.iwm.org.uk/
There are specific research and learning sections online.

The National Gallery
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

Science Museum
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
The Objects and Stories section lets you explore over 250,000 items and archives from their collection online.

Natural History Museum
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Museum of London
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london

Comments

[sweetsorcery]

Some more for England. :)

Imperial War Museums
https://www.iwm.org.uk/
There are specific research and learning sections online.

The National Gallery
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

Science Museum
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
The Objects and Stories section lets you explore over 250,000 items and archives from their collection online.

Natural History Museum
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Museum of London
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london

[cuddyclothes]

Thank you!

[cuddyclothes]

I posted these in the body of the post with attribution!

[sweetsorcery]

You're welcome for the links. No need for attribution though. Happy to help. :)

[beatrice_otter]

Oh, lovely, thank you for collecting all of these!

[cuddyclothes]

My pleasure!

[resourceress7]

Since you mentioned the London Transit Museum, I'll add this:

New York Transit Museum
nytransitmuseum.org
The New York Transit Museum is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region.

[duskpeterson]

As a follow-up to your link to the National Museum of American History: the whole Smithsonian Institution is worth browsing through. They have lots of museums on particular historical topics, and they do an excellent job with their websites.

https://www.si.edu

If you don't mind mention of museum-like library collections, the Library of Congress has tons of historical documents/images/videos/etc.

http://www.loc.gov

And the Digital Public Library of America collects historical images, etc., from libraries all over the USA.

http://dp.la

[cuddyclothes]

Thank you, Dusk! You are amazing!

[duskpeterson]

Thank my parents; they began taking me to the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress when I was in elementary school. :)