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England
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Arts & Crafts Museum 
 "This site has been created by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum which has a nationally-important collection on the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain. Spanning the 1880s to about 1940, it was one of the most inspiring and influential art movements to develop in Britain." The site features a searchable database of items from the collection, and information about designers and production techniques. http://www.artsandcraftsmuseum.org.uk/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place, Schools of Art Last updated Nov 5, 2003 Bath Postal Museum
This website features a detailed chronology of postal service from its origins in ancient Egypt, a history of letter boxes from 1854-1998 (including various models of pillar box), descriptions of postal uniforms from 1793-1984, and biographies of several people instrumental in the development of the British postal service. http://www.bathpostalmuseum.org/ Topics: History By Place, Museums by Place Last updated Nov 1, 2005 Broadfield House Glass Museum
This English museum features a "collection of British glass, much of which was made locally, from 18th century tableware to Victorian cameo vases to modern sculptural pieces." The site provides an overview of the collection and a link to images of glass paperweights from the U.S., Britain, France, and Scotland. http://www.glassmuseum.org.uk Topics: Museums by Place Last updated Nov 27, 2005 Brontë.info
Provides information on authors Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, "and the environment in which they lived." Includes biographies, a family tree and history, an interactive chronology that "lists key events in the history of the Brontes and places them in context with other key events around the world," related links, and more. From the Bronte Parsonage Museum and Bronte Society. http://www.bronte.org.uk/ Topics: Authors by Region, Home & Housing, Home & Housing, Museums by Place Last updated Nov 30, 2004 D-Day Museum & Overlord Embroidery
The Web site for this Portsmouth, England, museum highlights the events surrounding the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion and related World War II history. "D-Day Memories" features images and essays on D-Day. The "Overlord Embroidery" is an "83-metre-long" tapestry that depicts the people and events of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Also include D-Day questions and answers, essays, links, and more. http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk Topics: Crafts, Holidays and Observances Individually, Museums by Place, World War II Last updated May 30, 2007 Design Museum
This London museum focuses on industrial design, architecture, design movements, and design-related technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries. The site features browsable information about significant designers, from Alvar Aalto through Michael Young. The "Digital Design Museum" provides a description of "what web designers choose as the most inspiring developments of design on the web." http://www.designmuseum.org/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Oct 13, 2003 Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
This London museum "is known internationally for its core of Futurist works, as well as figurative art and sculpture dating from 1890 to the 1950s. It features paintings by Futurism's main protagonists: Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Luigi Russolo and Ardengo Soffici" as well as others. The site features brief artist biographies with images, and information about exhibits. http://www.estorickcollection.com/ Topics: Art by Region, Museums, Museums by Place, Schools of Art Last updated May 5, 2008 Fashion Museum
This museum, housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, England, focuses on contemporary and historical dress. The site features images of highlights from the collection and fashion history games. Also includes information about the history of the 18th century Assembly Rooms. Available in English, French, and German. http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/ Topics: Fashion, History, History By Place, Holidays & Observances, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 28, 2007 Freud Museum, London
This museum (housed in Freud's home after he fled the Nazis) celebrates the life and work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud. The site features photos of the museum (including Freud's psychoanalytic couch), historical photos, and essay on topics such as Freud and religion, and the interpretation of dreams. Lists museum events commemorating the 150-year anniversary of his birth in 2006. http://www.freud.org.uk Topics: Health & Medical Disciplines, Medical Treatments & Devices, Museums by Place, Notable People Last updated May 11, 2006 Geffrye Museum
This London museum "shows the changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day." The site features virtual tours of interiors and the garden, information about special exhibits, and activities for children (such as designing Tudor, Victorian, and modern rooms). http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk Topics: Arts and Humanities, Home & Housing, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 25, 2005 Handel House Museum
This London museum was "home to the baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759. It was here that he composed some of the greatest music in history, including 'Messiah.' ... The Museum celebrates Handel's life and works, displaying portraits of Handel and his contemporaries in finely restored Georgian interiors." The site provides a chronology, images of the house, and visitor information. Also include links to related sites. http://www.handelhouse.org Topics: Museums by Place, Musicians Last updated Nov 30, 2005 IWM [Imperial War Museum] Collections Online
Database of film and video material, sound recordings and oral histories, documents, art, and other items from the expanding Imperial War Museum (London, England) collections, which cover "all aspects of twentieth century conflict." Themes include war on land, at sea, and in the air; war and peace; prisoners; civilians; the Commonwealth; truth and propaganda; and burial and remembrance. http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/ Topics: History, History By Place, International Governments, Military, Museums, Museums by Place, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Mar 28, 2006 Leather Museum
The website for this British museum contains several resources on the history of leather-making and leather goods, including an essay on the history of leather, a gallery of images from the museum (bookbinding, horse saddles, bags and purses, dog equipment, and other leather items) and a bibliography. Includes related links. http://www.walsall.gov.uk/leathermuseum/ Topics: Industries, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Mar 14, 2006 The Mary Rose
A website companion for the 16th century warship, the Mary Rose, which resides in a museum in Portsmouth, England. The site has a general history of the ship, built in the time of King Henry VIII, and a visual story of its sinking in 1545 and its excavation over 400 years later. Also find activity lessons, discussion of life on board the Mary Rose, and links to other maritime museums. http://www.maryrose.org/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place, Transportation Last updated Jun 9, 2005 Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA)
This interior design museum, part of Middlesex University in Britain, offers exhibitions that "give a vivid picture of domestic life in the first half of the twentieth century while also looking at contemporary design, art and issues related to the domestic environment." The site features a description and online catalog of the collection (use the "light box" to access records with selected images), information about exhibits, online teaching resources, and links to related sites. http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk Topics: Home & Housing, Home & Housing, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 25, 2005 Museum of London
This museum "represents a quarter of a million years of history and over seven million modern Londoners. Our collections include over a million items." The site features an overview of the collections (including panoramas of galleries), online exhibits, and a searchable and browsable library of over 1,400 images. Searchable. Some material available in several different languages. http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ Topics: History By Place, Museums by Place Last updated Apr 3, 2006 Museum of London: Ceramics and Glass
Images and descriptions of hundreds of ceramic and glass items in the collection of the Museum of London. Browsable by time period and type of ware, such as Bronze Age and Iron Age ceramics, medieval unglazed ware, porcelain, studio/art pottery, Roman glass, Venetian-style glass, and bottles (medicine, wine, milk, ink, scent, and more). Also includes a bibliography and information about museums in and near London with related collections. http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ceramics/ Topics: Beverages, Crafts, Fish, Meat, & Dairy, Museums by Place Last updated May 6, 2006 Museum of London: Docklands
Website for this location of the Museum of London that focuses on the Docklands area. "From Roman settlement to Docklands' regeneration, this 200 year old warehouse [musuem] reveals the long history of London as a port through stories of trade, migration and commerce." Site features images from collections, an interactive map of "London, Sugar & Slavery" that "reveals London's untold links to the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition," and more. http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/ Topics: Museums by Place Last updated Dec 22, 2008 The National Army Museum
This "is the British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace-keeping in the Twenty-first Century." The site features an illustrated history of the army, highlighting events such as the American War of Independence, the Crimean War, the First and Second World Wars, the deployment of troops to Northern Ireland in August 1969, and the Falklands Conflict. http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk Topics: History, History By Place, Military, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 25, 2005 National Maritime Museum; Royal Observatory Greenwich
These organizations, located in Greenwich, England, work "to illustrate for everyone the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars." The site features searchable and browsable images of over 7,500 artifacts; a maritime art collection; and the "Search Station," which provides access to over 1,800 objects based on themes. Also includes information about the discovery of calculating longitude, and much more. Searchable. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ Topics: Astronomy, Museums, Museums by Place, Transportation Last updated Oct 20, 2003 National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery was "founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women." The site contains a database of images and descriptions of the Gallery's "paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and photographs." Searchable by sitter, artist, name of portrait, and more. Also features news, a history of the Gallery, online exhibits, and resources for teachers and students. http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php Topics: Museums, Museums by Place, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Sep 15, 2009 The Saatchi Gallery
Official website for a contemporary art museum in London that will occupy a new space in November 2007. Features background about and images of works from international artists who have exhibited in the gallery, such as painters Martin Kippenberger, Marlene Dumas, and Jorg Immendorff. Also includes a list of previous exhibits back to 1985 and guides to contemporary art galleries throughout the world. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk Topics: Museums by Place Last updated May 30, 2007 The Second World War Experience Centre
This mission of this British organization is "to collect, document, preserve, exhibit and encourage access to the surviving material evidence and associated information of the men and women who participated in the war in whatever capacity whether military, civilian or conscientious objector." Features a timeline, information about key figures, and selected materials from the collection on topics such as the war at sea, in the air, and on land. http://www.war-experience.org Topics: Activism, Military, Museums, Museums by Place, World War II Last updated Jul 26, 2005 Sir John Soane's Museum
"The architect Sir John Soane's house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields [London] has been a public museum since the early 19th century." The site includes a description of the museum's collections (from Egyptian and classical antiquities to paintings by William Hogarth) and exhibits, a bibliography, a chronological list of Soane's building projects (1779-1831), museum news, and related links. http://www.soane.org/ Topics: Architecture, Architecture by Place, Museums, Museums by Place, Notable People: Arts & Humanities Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Victoria and Albert Museum: Search the Collections
"You may search here for over 30,000 works and over 50,000 images from the V&A collections. The database covers a wide range of objects, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles." There is no browsing feature, but if you leave the "search" form empty all of the images will come up in thumbnail form. From the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London. http://collections.vam.ac.uk// Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jan 19, 2009 The Wallace Collection
This London museum houses "one of the best collections of French 18th-century pictures, porcelain and furniture in the world, a remarkable array of 17th-century paintings and a superb armoury." The site features a tour through the museum, a history of the collections, images of selected objects (ceramics, glass, paintings, drawings, and watercolors), and artist biographies. Searchable. http://www.wallacecollection.org/ Topics: Art by Region, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 8, 2008 |
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