Anth 414: Museology

This is perhaps the best place to browse for thematic/localish kinds of virtual exhibits. Included on December 12, 2020 were:
Two hundred years on the Erie Canal
Race to the Moon
Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Campus
American during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture
Golden Age of Radio in the US

The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum comprises Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity; European art—including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and decorative arts—from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century; and international photography from its inception to the present day.

The British Museum was founded in 1753 and opened its doors in 1759. It was the first national museum to cover all fields of human knowledge, open to visitors from across the world. Enlightenment ideals and values – critical scrutiny of all assumptions, open debate, scientific research, progress and tolerance – have marked the Museum since its foundation.

Empowering people to create a just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past.

One current exhibit is Away from Home: Boarding School Experiences.

Exhibits on Family, Civil Rights, Music, Literature and lots more!

Virtual Tour is available

Oxford University Museum of Natural History was established in 1860 to draw together scientific studies from across the University of Oxford. Today, the award-winning Museum continues to be a place of scientific research, collecting and fieldwork, and plays host to a programme of events, exhibitions and activities for the public and school students of all ages.

Has a nice series called Making the Museum.

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

As a collection of general Americana, the Newberry’s Edward E. Ayer Collection is one of the best in the country and one of the strongest collections on American Indians in the world.

In 1911, Edward E. Ayer (1841-1927) donated more than 17,000 pieces on the early contacts between American Indians and Europeans. Ayer, a member of the first Board of Trustees, was the first donor of a great collection to the Newberry. Since then, the Ayer endowment fund has enabled the library to collect in excess of 130,000 volumes, over 1 million manuscript pages, 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings on the subject.

Featured here is a selection of more than 65,000 digitized images and texts from the Ayer materials. This digital collection will grow as we continue to make these primary source documents freely available online.