Virtual exhibitions
Australian
- Australia Innovates - includes the top 100 Australian innovations, Powerhouse Museum
- Chinese Dinosaurs - Australian Museum site
- Classics and Archaeology Virtual Museum - University of Melbourne
- George Raper collection - a series of maps, drawings and manuscripts by a midshipman of the First Fleet, digitised by the National Library of Australia
- Leading the way - Sir John Monash exhibition, Monash University
- The Flinders Papers at Greenwich - letters and documents about the explorer Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
- Our nation's album: birth of a library - from the National Library of Australia
- Powerhouse Museums current exhibitions at the Powerhouse Museum
- Sydney Streets - from the City of Sydney's Archives and History Program
- Transfigure - Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Virtual Museum of the Pacific Pacific cultural heritage collected by the Australian Museum since 1845
- Water, Water, Everywhere - from Sydney Water
- Winged Sandals - an enchanting and visually stimulating website on Greek mythology by the ABC in association with The University of Melbourne's Centre for Classics and Archaeology
- Museum of Australian Currency Notes - Reserve Bank of Australia
International
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries - list of library and archival exhibitions on the Web.
This list is constantly reviewed. Each month there are many new exhibitions added.
The list below is a selection to demonstrate the variety of methods used to present exhibitions on the Web. - The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum - A truly virtual museum, entirely web-based community museum which includes much useful technical information about how it was done
- British Empire Exhibition 1938 requires Macromedia Flash Player
- America's Jazz Heritage - Smithsonian project
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative - a needs Macromedia Flash Player
- Big Dig Archaeology - from the Boston Museum of Science
- Bridgeport History - documents a century of labour in Bridgeport, Connecticut
- British Library Turning the Pages - digitisation of some British Library treasures
- Cave of Lascaux - French Ministry of Culture and Communication
- Chateau of Versailles
- Chocolate: the exhibition - developed by The Field Museum, Chicago
- CyberMuse - Drawing with light: history of photography from Aristotle's observations about light to the digital revolution
- Devices of Wonder - from the Getty Institute
- Drama of Haymarket - Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University
- The Dream of Flight - a Library of Congress exhibition commemorating the centennial of flight
- Dynamic Earth - from the National Museum of Natural History
- Exploratorium - part of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts
- Eye on Europe: - prints, books and multiples / 1960 to now
- Exhibitions at the Getty Museum of Art: current, past and future
- Fats Waller Forever Digital Exhibit
- The Flinders Papers - letters and documents held at the Maritime Museum at Greenwich, UK
- Forum of Trajan in Rome - one of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome
- Fungus Among Us - Museum of Natural History, Nova Scotia
- Hand Bookbindings - 210 examples of bookbinders art from the rare books collection at Princeton University
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - the Smithsonian's museum of modern and contemporary art
- Hyper History Online - authored by Andreas Nothiger, HyperHistory Online, Vancouver, Canada
- Inca Mummies - excavation of over 2,000 mummies at pre-Hispanic site known as Puruchuco-Huaquerones in Peru, hosted by National Geographic
- Insights - from the National Museum of African Art
- Invention at Play - Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
- John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Language of the Land - Journeys into literary America, Library of Congress
- Lemur: Learning with Museum Resources - Aberdeen, Scotland
- Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibition - the first transcontinental journey across North America
- Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History - can be navigated from a timeline, maps or a thematic index
- Monticello - home of former US President Thomas Jefferson
- MOWA - Museum of Web Art
- Musee Rodin
- National Archives and Records Administration - USA
- National Archives Virtual Museum - Public Records Office, UK
- Natural History Museum - London, UK
- National Museum of Natural History - virtual tour of the dinosaurs
- National Railway Museum (UK)
- Nazi Olympics - presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Odyssey Online - Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and sub-Saharan African cultures
- Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History
- Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration - National Library of Canada
- Pastimes and paradigms: games we play - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, New York
- Piero della Francesca's Arezzo frescoes - Italian
- Quilts and Quilt making in America 1978-1996 - American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Secrets of Lost Empires - Pharaoh's Obelisk
- Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - A journey into time immemorial, Canadian virtual museum
- Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - A journey to a new land, Canadian virtual museum
- State Hermitage Museum - St Petersburg, Russia
- Taj Mahal Virtual Tour
- Tate Gallery - national collections of British art and international modern art
- Telling Stories: Narratives of Nationhood - Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Canada
- Tower of London Virtual Tour
- V & A - The golden age of Couture, Paris and London, 1947 - 1957
- Virtual Museum of Canada - part of Canada Heritage Information Network
- Virtual Tour of the Architectural Heritage of Antigonish, Nova Scotia - St. Francis Xavier University for History
- Virtual Tours - Web guide
- Virtual Victorian Beaded Bags and Purse Museum
- Walk through time - evolution of time measurement through the ages
- WebMuseum - 'No support, no funding, no manpower' but worth looking at
- Wet with blood - from the Chicago Historical Society
- Who stole the teepee? - one of a series of virtual exhibitions from the National Museum of the American Indian
- Wonder Bound - rare books on early museums
- World Digital Library - global digital library of world treasures
- World Heritage Tour - an image bank of panoramic pictures and virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by UNESCO
- World Wide Panorama - world-wide panorama shoot on 20 March 2004
- Virtual tour: Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Camobida - National Gallery of Art (US)
Please contact the Library if there are broken links.
Suggestions for new sites are always welcome.
Last updated 12 April 2012