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A work in progress of every museum in the United States that offers free admission. If able, we've linked directly to the museum's website where the free admission policy is stated as well as noted where the museum is located; broken down by states, then cities. Also, you'll find a few commonly used acronyms throughout the list, but they're not too hard to understand!

Mathematics illuminates the patterns that abound in our world. The Museum of Mathematics strives to enhance public understanding and perception of mathematics. Its dynamic exhibits and programs will stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The museum's activities will lead a broad and diverse audience to understand the evolving, creative, human, and aesthetic nature of mathematics.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

This site allows you to make a "box" of a person, event, historical period, etc. by uploading documents and building the space.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Interactive, flash-based webquest about the connections between Renaissance life and modern life. Has a lot of motivating features, and includes lesson plans for teachers. Excellent site from the Allentown Art Museum.

Interactive, AND with pre-made lesson plans!!

The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.

Primary Research is the Internet presence of a number of projects involving high school students and local history. Central to all of these projects is collaboration among research institutions such as historical societies, libraries, archives, and museums. We are based in Beverly, Massachusetts, which serves as a starting point for students learning the process of local history research.

Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits.

Here is a collection of virtual field trip sites.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History has a new teacher loyalty program that gives teachers free and exclusive benefits.  All you have to do is give your name, address, and place of employment.  What a great opportunity! 

This toolkit offers the six fundamentals of art, line, color, space, shape, balance, and rhythm. Watch an animated explanation of the fundamentals, find examples in works of art, and create your own work. Put that knowledge to work by recognizing the concepts in works of art that are in museums, and finally, apply those concepts to your own creation. Clicking on the Encyclopedia gives you even more examples. This is a great site to use for all levels of students.

The goal of the Exploratorium Digital Library is to provide access to high-quality teaching resources and learning activities that reflect the museum's foundation of playful exhibit-based inquiry in science, art, and human perception. The Learning Resources Collection includes teaching tips and related resources. This collection is suitable for educators in both classroom and out-of-school settings; for peer institutions, such as museums, science centers, and universities; and for individuals.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. We are a modern "museum" that helps making the world understandable, using Internet.

The Museum has many resources for teachers striving to help students learn the history of the Holocaust and reflect upon the moral and ethical questions raised by that history.

A great site for lesson topics, resources and materials, lesson plans, guidelines for teaching the Holocaust, and online professional development.

Interactive Maps, Timelines, Videos, Geocoded Photos, Museum Artifacts, and your Ancestors are just a few things you can do and discover on WorldHistory.com, the new social history experience. We connect the dots of history, we connect you to history. Sources, partners, and YOU provide the content, history provides the story.

ArtBabble was conceived, initiated, designed, built, sculpted, programmed, shot, edited, painted and launched by a cross-departmental collection of individuals at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives. ArtBabble was created so others will join in spreading the world of art through video.

This site contains programs from content providers such as zoos and museums for virtual field trips. Searching can be limited to free programs.

Organized by theme, this site (a section of the Holocaust Memorial Museum) uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust.

"The American Museum of Natural History gives you the whole enchilada in six minutes. The film, moving from Planet Earth to the Big Bang, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe." Scientific, mystical, awe-inspiring.