Theatre Historical Society of America The American Theatre Architectural Archive ". . . is currently home to over 100,000
items documenting over 18,000 theatres in America.
Buffalo Architecture and History. This site contains links to Architecture Around the World and the Illustrated Furniture Glossary.
Canadian Museum of History A culturally rich and delightful site, encompassing the culture of our neighbor north of the border.
Theatre Museum Canada. Excellent collection of contemporary sets and costumes, plus the Legent Library, a collection of interviews
with Canadian theatre artists.
The Exploratorium, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts
A Beginner's Guide to Coin Collecting [FPMarkets.] This commercial site contains links to the
history and practice of coinage and the use of coins.
The Getty Museum
Hekman Digital Archive, Calvin University. An excellent, well maintained resource.
Kunst Historische Museum Vien, made up of:
The museum also contains a fine collection of artifacts from the excavations in Ephesos (Turkey.)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs (P&P) Reading Room Online Catalog. The collection is searchable, and much of the collection is in the public domain. Although the interface is Byzantine, it's worth the effort.
London Transport Museum. Excellent collection of railway film footage, posters and photographs. "Information Resources" provides links to essays and to related web sites. See also for additional material.
The Louvre and the Web Museum
Theatre Museums in Europe
Museum of the City of New York, the Theatre Collection, with over 200,000 accessioned objects.
Museumland.com, "The World Wide Portal to Museums and Cultural Heritage", with more than 8000 links to museums in 118 nations.
The Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, Belgium.
"The Nine Planets" A media tour of the solar system. Intense graphics, good fun to tour. (Absolutely nothing to do with the theatre, but a very beautiful tour of our planets and their satellites.!)
V&A Theatre Museum Theatre Museum, National Museum of the Performing Arts in Covent Garden, UK. 1500 digitized photos of theatrical artifacts, plus lots of accompanying information. Very little of this material appears to have remained online following the reorganization of the web site.
The Smithsonian
[This is arguably one of the most maddeningly maintained sites on the WWW. URLs change without warning and seeming without reason, at an alarming rate. If you have difficulty locating Smithsonian sites, try backing through the URL until you find a redirect or index. JRW, November 2006. This is still the case in 2016!]
The National Museum of the Performing Arts, a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London has been closed, its collections housed now in the Victoria and Albert Museum where it is but a shadow of this once wonderful treasury.
World Wide Arts Resources. Comprehensive listing of museums, many with clothing and cultural artifacts.
