Avoid the crowds and take your own private tour of these museums on the World Wide Web.
This is one of New Zealand's finest heritage institutions why fly when you can take a virtual visit:
http://www.intxpress.co.nz/green/community/museum.htm
San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum was a pioneer in the analog world and its virtual presence is also groundbreaking:
This village lists all the Museums with virutal tours:
http://www.teachersoft.com/museum.htm
Chicago's famous museum features an interactive Web tour of their popular from "DNA to Dinosaurs" exhibit:
http://www.bvis.uic.edu/museum/
Listings for museums provide location, hours, exhibitions and links to their own Web sites depending on availability.
http://www.the-forum.com/museum/museum.htm
Located in Rochester, New York, the George Eastman House combines a leading international museum of photography and film:
http://www.it.rit.edu/~gehouse/index.htm
See the treasures of Europe from one of Paris' greatest tourist spots:
http://www.paris.org.:80/Musees/Louvre/
The Webmaster of the Planet Earth Home Page created a reference page of museum and gallery servers, gardens, selected exhibits, and some museums around the world:
http://white.nosc.mil/museum.htm
The nation's oldest continuously operating museum, the Peabody Museum of Salem, was founded in 1799 by the mariners and merchants of the East India Marine Society.
An exhibit at the Library of Congress presents over 200 of the Vatican library's most precious manuscripts, books and maps:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/Vatican.exhibit.htm
This met-page features content from the mother of all museums, including the National Air and S[ace Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Freer Gallery of Art to name a few:
Located in London, this museum page features descriptions of exhibits and public programs:
The Florida International Museum opened its doors in January 1995 with its premier exhibition, Treasures of the Czars. Over 600,000 visitors came to the downtown St. Petersburg museum to see the Romanov artifacts. This virtual tour was constructed to promote that exhibition. We have left this site up under exclusive contract with the Moscow Kremlin Museums, owners of the exhibition.
http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/treasures/TC.Lobby.htm
This site includes a mass of virtual backgrounds available on the Web:
http://www.teleport.com/~mtjans/VBM/Netscape/index.shtm
This site is an art historian's dream come true -- the best of the world's visual arts, culled from museums all over the world, and made instantly accessible:
No longer on display at the White House, this collection is now on exhibit at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution - and "in virtu" through this Internet tour.