HISTORY EXHIBITS (A SAMPLING) Preserved by Chinese Translation Services
NON-US HISTORY BY PERIOD
ANCIENT
- Ancient Civilizations (British Museum)
- Ancient Egypt (The British Museum)
- Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit
- Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit
- Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple
- The Ancient Greek World
- Ancient India
- Ancient India (British Museum)
- Ancient Pompeii (includes great aerial photos)
- Ancient Stones of Scotland
- Art of the First Cities (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Coins and History of Asia
- Digital Egypt for Universities
- Diotima's Art Links (the ancient world)
- Duke Papyrus Archive (wonderful artifacts from ancient Egypt)
- Eternal Egypt
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
- Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
- Images of Women in Ancient Art
- In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000
- Life in Ancient Greece Reflected in the Coinage of Corinth
- Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Museum of Ancient Inventions
- Mysteries of Egypt (The Canadian Museum of Civilization)
- Persepolis and Ancient Iran (Oriental Institute Photographic Archives)
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
- Pyramids: The Inside Story (NOVA)
- The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
- Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia
- Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions
- Stone Pages: Guide to European Megoliths
- Treasures of Ancient Egypt
- Tutankhamen: Beneath the Mask
- Trajan's Column
MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN
- The Age of King Charles V of France, 1338-1380 (The Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
- Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry
- Castles of Wales
- Chartres: Cathedral of Notre Dame
- Chateau of Versailles
- Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries
- The End of Europe's Middle Ages
- European Voyages of Exploration, 15th and 16th Centures
- The Galileo Project
- The Heuneburg Museum: Early Celts on the Upper Danube
- Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel
- Handbook of German Dress
- Higgins Armory Museum
- Illuminating the Renaissance
- Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
- Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey
- John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations
- The Land of Genghis Khan
- Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
- Love and Yearning (Persian Poetry and Painting)
- Medieval Writing
- The Mind of Leonardo
- New France--New Horizons (French Canada)
- Palladio's Italian Villas
- Renaissance: What Inspired this age of balance and order?
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Treasures of the Czars: An Historical Exhibit
- Triumph of the Baroque (Nat. Gallery of Art)
- Vatican Exhibit: Rome Reborn
- Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
- Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
- Welsh Castle Tours
MODERN
- 1901: Living at the Time of the Census (England and Wales)
- The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives (National Library of Ireland)
- 1936 Olympics, Berlin
- Alexander Palace Time Machine (an exhibit on the residence of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II)
- American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, 1909-1915
- Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons and Human Rights
- Anne Frank the Writer
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
- The Art of the First World War
- Berlin Airlift: Documents, Images, History
- Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
- Black Europeans (British Library)
- Bodleian Library, Oxford University (19th and 20th century motoring and transportation images)
- Britain, 1906-1918
- British Empire Exhibition 1938
- Canada by Train
- Canadian Heritage Information Network (includes virtual exhibits)
- Canadian Museum of Civilization
- Chateau of Versailles
- Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War
- China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic of China
- China in the 1930s (Images from the University of Wisconsin)
- China's Cultural Revolution (photos of Li Zhensheng)
- Churchill and the Great Republic
- Computer Museum History Center
- Cold War
- Darwin
- Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- The Crystal Palace, 1851
- Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
- The Endurance: Shakleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
- Enola Gay
- Extra Ordinary Every Day: The Bauhaus
- Formosa: Nineteenth Century Images
- Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture
- Sigmund Freud Museum, London
- Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
- GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom
- Horizons: Canadian and Russian Landscape Painting, 1860-1940
- Images Canada
- Imperial Palaces of St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Imperial War Museum, London
- Italian Life Under Fascism
- Jewels of the Romanovs
- John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations
- The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930
- The Last Jews of Libya
- Meeting of Frontiers: Exploring and Settling the American West and Siberia
- The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946
- Museum of E-Failure (the Web's great gilded age)
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Nanking 1937
- Napoleon (PBS)
- Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-1815
- National Railway Museum (UK)
- Nazi & Soviet Art
- Open Hearts/Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project
- The Peopling of Canada, 1891-1921
- The Peopling of Canada, 1946-1976
- Picturing Power: Posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Plakaty.Ru (Soviet Posters)
- Posters of the Spanish Civil War
- Railway Women in Wartime Britain
- Remembering Nagasaki (includes riveting photos taken in the city in 1945)
- The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934
- Russian Imperial Easter Eggs
- A Scattering of Seeds: The Creation of Canada
- St. Michael's Abby (memorial to Napoleon III)
- St. Petersburg (Russia) in Postcards
- The Siege and Commune of Paris (1,200 photographs from 1870 and 1871)
- The Soviet Poster
- Soviet Posters
- Soviet Posters (Cyrillic fonts--and a knowledge of Russian--are useful)
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
- St. Paul's Cathedral, London
- They Still Draw Pictures (a collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children)
- Topography of Terror (Nazi Institutions of Terror, Berlin)
- Virtual Museum of Canada
- Virtual Museum of New France
- Virtual Museum of Political Art
- William Hogarth and 18th Century Print Culture
- Women Come to the Front (World War II)
- World War I and II Posters (U. of Minn.)
- World War I: Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
- World War I: Lost Poets of the Great War
- World War II Exhibit: A People at War
- World War II Poster Collection
UNITED STATES HISTORY
- 1492 Exhibit (Library of Congress) "...the ocean blue and all that"
- 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis
- 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- The 1930s on Display (from Amer. Studies at U. Va.
- 350 Years of Jewish Life in America (Library of Congress)
- African American Odyssey
- Alcatraz Island
- Alexander Hamilton
- America from the Great Depression to World War II (FSA-OWI photos)
- American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience
- American History and Art from New England
- American History Sweatshop Exhibition (Smithsonian)
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest (photos and text)
- American Memory Collection Finder Search (Library of Congress)
- Amusing America (San Francisco Museum and Historical Society)
- Afro-Americ@ Black History Museum [QuickTime]
- Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
- The American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt
- America's Jazz Heritage Home Page (Smithsonian)
- American Treasures (Library of Congress)
- American Visions (the history of America's people and places through its art)
- Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
- At Home in the Heartland (Illinois)
- H.H. Bennett's Photographs (mostly Midwest US)
- Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
- Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators
- Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943 (photographs)
- By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
- The Capitol Project (U.S. Capitol building)
- Centennial Exhibition: Philadelpia 1876
- A Century of Progress: The 1933-4 Chicago World's Fair
- Chicago ''L''.org - The Chicago Rapid Transit Internet Resource
- The Circus in American, 1793-1940
- Civil War Women On-line Archival Collections
- Coca-Cola Television Advertisments
- Connecticut History Online
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
- Digital Library Initiative, U. of Washington
- Dot City: Dorothy Parker's New York
- Down the Drain: Chicago's Sewers: The Historic Development of an Urban Infrastructure
- Dramas of Haymarket
- Edison After Forty
- Eleanor Roosevelt--American Visionary
- The Emergence of Advertising in American, 1850-1920
- Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting
- Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America
- Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery
- Eyewitness to History: 25 Years of the Presidency
- The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
- Farber Gravestone Collection
- Fats Waller Forever
- Flights of Inspiration: The Wright Brothers
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
- Franklin and his Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in 18th Century America
- Freedmen and Southern Society Project
- From the Home Front and the Front Lines (Library of Congress)
- The Gettysburg Address Exhibit
- The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory Exhibit
- Historic American Sheet Music (1850-1920)
- Historic Mount Vernon
- History Explorer (Nat. Museum of American History)
- HistoryWired (objects at the Nat. Museum of American History)
- The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
- Iconography of Hope: The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
- Images of American Political History
- Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies (L of C)
- Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs (1915-1930)
- Japanese-American Exhibit (World War II)
- Jefferson's Blood
- July 1942: United We Stand
- Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition
- The Lincoln Museum Exhibit
- Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas
- Lincoln North
- Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- LSU Digital Library (Louisiana, USA)
- Madison, Wisconsin--Celebrating 150 Years
- McIntyre, Pennsylvania: The Everyday Life of a Coal Mining Company Town
- Making the Dirt Fly: Building the Panama Canal
- Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad
- Medicine and Madison Avenue, 1840s to the 1960s
- Minnesota Territory Exhibit
- MoMa (Museum of Modern Art)
- Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
- Museum of United States Essays and Proofs (postage stamps)
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
- National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Native Words/Native Warriors: Codetalkers in World Wars I and II
- 100 Years of New York City
- New York World's Fair, 1964-5
- The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections (Library of Congress)
- Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library
- Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974
- Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time
- Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
- Pluralism and Unity: Exploring the American Identity
- Posters American Style (National Museum of American Art)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
- The Psychedelic '60s
- Quake: 1906 San Francisco
- Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
- Red Scare Image Database (1918-1920)
- Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress)
- Salem Witch Museum
- San Francisco Cable Car Museum
- Shaw Memorial Home Page (Nat. Gallery of Art)
- The South Texas Border, 1900-1920 (photographs from the Robert Runyan collection, Library of Congress)
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Steaming West: Railway Activity Westward Through Kansas, 1860-1890
- Stereoscopic Visions of War and Empire: the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars
- Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 (Library of Congress)
- Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
- Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century
- Thomas Jefferson Exhibit (Library of Congress)
- Today in History (exhibit changes daily)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
- The Underground Railroad (Nat. Geographic)
- Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest
- US Army Vietnam Combat Art
- The Valley of the Shadow, 1995 (The Civil War: A Comparative Study of Two Cities)
- Virtual Jamestown
- "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
- War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
- Within These Walls (National Museum of American History)
- Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
- Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
- World War II Exhibit: A People at War
- WPA Posters, 1936-1943
GENERAL (OR UNCATEGORIZED) SITES
- AfricaFocus
- African Voices (Smithsonian)
- Ancient Mexico
- Andes Expedition: Searching for Inca Secrets
- Animated Atlas
- Archaeological Sites (a guide)
- Archaeology of Teotihuacan, Mexico
- Art and Life in Africa
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Arts and Crafts Movement: 1880-1920 in Europe and America
- Beth Hatefutsoth: The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
- Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
- Black Ships and Samurai (Commodore Perry and Japan)
- British Empire
- The British Museum
- Calendars through the Ages
- Canadian Heritage Gallery
- Canadian Heritage Information Network
- Canadian Historical Portraits
- The Cave of Lascaux
- China the Beautiful
- Collapse: Why do Civilizations Fall?
- Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology
- A Digital Archive of European Architecture
- Directory of Digitized Collections (UNESCO)
- Dittrick Medical History Center
- The Evolution of Time Measurement
- Exhibitions in the History of Medicine
- Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion
- George Eastman House
- Great Buildings Online (includes 3D images)
- Historical Graphics
- History of Sanitary Sewers
- Hudson's Bay Company Digital Collection (aboriginal artifacts & more)
- Humanities Interactive
- Images from the History of Medicine
- International Council of Museums
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Law in Mexico Before the Conquest
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- Library of Congress Exhibits (15 at last count)
- Making the Dirt Fly: Building the Panama Canal
- Maya Ruins (photos)
- Mesoamerican Photo Archives
- Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries
- Museum of Hoaxes
- Museums Online
- National Museum of Natural History
- Nazi-era Photos of Architectural Sites in the "Greater German Reich"
- The New York Public Library Digital Collections
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
- Places of Peace and Power (sacted sites around the world)
- Russian Painting
- Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Literature and Artwork
- VietNam Pictures Archives
- Virtual Library Museums Page
- WebExhibits Catalogue
- World Myths and Legends in Art
- World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
MUSEUMS, PHOTOGRAPHIC AND ART COLLECTIONS
- 24 Hour Museum (Guide to Museums in the UK)
- Alexander Calder Exhibit (Nat. Gallery of Art)
- Alfred Stieglitz: New Perspectives
- American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s
- American Museum of Photography
- American Photography: A Century of Images
- Arnold Schoenberg Center
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Art Institute of Chicago
- The Art of the Motorcycle (Guggenheim Museum)
- Art Museum of the Americas
- Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 (Nat. Gallery of Art)
- ARTscape (Peabody Essex Museum)
- The Art of Tibet
- Artcyclopedia--Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
- Art Resource
- Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
- Art History Resources on the Web
- ArtMuseum.net
- ArtSource Electronic Exhibitions
- Australian Museums and Galleries On Line
- Bellini: Creating and Re-creating
- Manuel R. Bustamante Photographic Collection (Cuba)
- Canadian Museum of Civilization
- Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Carlos Museum, Emory University
- Cartoon Art Museum
- CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum
- The Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA)
- Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy
- Salvador Dali Foundation
- Dallas Museum of Art Online
- Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
- Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland
- Decopix--The Art Deco Architecture Site
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum)
- Diego Rivera Mural Project
- Directory of Jewish Museums
- Discovering Buddhist Art (Seattle Art Museum)
- Duke Papyrus Archive
- Early American Painting
- Earth from Above
- The Essential Vermeer Lover
- E Space (SFMOMA)
- Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham
- Fine Arts in Hungary
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Imagebase (60,000 images!)
- Finnish National Gallery: The Art Collections
- Framing Canada
- French Painting of the 19th Century (Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington)
- The Frick Collection
- Fugitive Images (New York City)
- George Eastman House Exhibits (Photography)
- German National Museum, Nuremberg
- G. I. Jones--Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
- Gotham Comes of Age: New York City, 1892-1942
- Goya's Last Works
- The Great Mirror (5000 photographs of "cultural landscapes")
- Guggenheim Museums: Selections from the Collections
- Guide to Australian Museums Online
- Jean-Antoine Houdon, Sculptor of the Enlightenment
- Hommage à Josef Elgurt
- Horizons: Canadian and Russian Landscape Painting, 1860-1940
- Images of England
- The Impressionists at Argenteuil (Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington)
- Jackson Pollock
- Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line
- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Museum at the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Louvre Museum: Official Web Site
- LSU Digital Library
- Making Sense of Modern Art
- Mariner's Museum
- Mark Harden's Artchive
- Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Milestones of Modernism, 1880-1940
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- MoMA: Online Projects
- MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Thomas Moran Exhibition (Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington)
- MUSEE: Directory of Museums Worldwide
- Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museums)
- Museo Picasso Virtual
- Museums in Canada
- Museums in Germany
- Museum of Bad Art
- Museum of Broadcast Communications
- Museum of the City of New York
- Museum of Civilization in Quebec City
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Museum of Musical Instruments
- Museum of Online Museums
- Museum of Web Art
- Museums Online
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Archives of Canada: Exhibitions
- National Atomic Museum
- National Aviation Museum (Canada)
- National Gallery of Art (USA)
- National Gallery of Australia
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Library of Australia Documentary Image Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of American Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American Jewish History
- National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (Britain)
- National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada)
- National Music Museum
- National Portrait Gallery (London)
- Newseum: The Interactive Museum of News
- New York City Signs, 14th to 42nd Streets
- Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
- Official Salvador Dali Museum Web Site
- Paintings of Vermeer
- Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
- Picture Collection of Time Inc.
- Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
- Portland Art Museum
- The Art of Odilon Redon
- Religious Works of the Dutch Masters
- Rembrandt's Journey
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- The Rodin Museum
- Mark Rothko (Nat. Gallery of Art)
- Royal British Columbia Museum
- Royal Library of the Netherlands
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Russian Museums on Line (in Russian)
- Saatchi Gallery
- Salem Witch Museum
- Science Museums in Israel
- Share the Perspective of Genius: Leonardo's Study for the Adoration of the Magi
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Smithsonian Institution Home Page
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative
- The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- State Russian Museum Art Library
- Gilbert Stuart (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom (Lib. of Congress)
- Tate Gallery, London
- Tate Gallery: Turner Online
- Tate Online: In Focus
- Triumph of the Baroque (Nat. Gallery of Art)
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection
- Virtual Uffizi
- Univ. of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
- Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South
- Van Gogh's Van Goghs
- Vincent van Gogh Gallery
- Vatican City
- Vatican Museums Online
- Essential Vermeer
- Vermeer Art
- Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (In-Depth Study)
- Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance (in-depth presentation)
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
- Virtual Library Museums Page
- Virtual Museum of Art El Pais
- Virtual Museum of Canada
- Virtual Museum of New France
- Web Exhibits Catalogue
- Web Gallery of Art
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue! (an award-winning site)
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- World Art Treasures
- World Wide Arts Resources - The Definitive Arts and Culture Information Gateway
- The WWW Virtual Library: Museums (links to dozens of museums worldwide)
- The WWW Virtual Library: Museums Around the World
- The WWW Virtual Library: Museums-Art Galleries
- The WWW Virtual Library: Museums: Germany
- The WWW Virtual Library: Museums in the USA
This is an example of the wonderful art available on
the Web.
Here we have the Delphic Sibyl as depicted by Michelangelo in the
Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
Several hundred images from the Vatican are available from the Papal
Server in Rome: Vatican City