The Musee du Louvre Web site can be found at http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/louvrea.htm. The collections of the Louvre are divided into seven departments encompassing ancient and modern art. On the Web, you can view major works from each of the seven collections, including, of course, the Mona Lisa.
The Galleria degli Uffizi is also on the Web at http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/. Founded in Florence in 1581, the Uffizi is one of the oldest museums in the world. Its Web site contains dozens of high-resolution color pictures, extensive commentary, and biographies.
The Web site for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at http://www.metmuseum.org/, is designed to give visitors an overview of the collections on display in the museum's galleries. It also includes a floor plan and calendar, which provides detailed current information on special exhibitions, concerts, lectures, and films. You can even shop in the Museum Gift Shop and order posters, prints, and jewelry online.
Closer to home, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has a Web site at http://www.rom.on.ca/. In addition to providing the usual information on hours, collections, programs, and events, it offers interactive activities for children and adults. These include step-by-step instructions on how to make your own mummy. And, with the right software loaded on your computer (instructions at the site tell you what that is and how to get it for free off the Internet), you can take a Virtual Reality tour of several of the galleries.
There isn't enough space here to describe all of the Web sites for all of the museums that are now online. The World Wide Web Library-Museums at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html is a meta-site that links to many museums on the Internet. You can browse its list of links by country or search by keyword and view some of the greatest works of art from around the world.
For help with connecting to the World Wide Web, contact the CIT Help Desk at 645-3542.
Nancy Schiller and Will Hepfer, University Libraries
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