Museum Links
The Smithsonian Institution offers
extensive online access to America's cultural resources. These include the Anacostia Museum, which features are
programs and exhibitions that emphasize the contributions of African Americans
to the history and culture of our country. The
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
is devoted to exhibition, scholarship, education, and publication in the field
of Asian art. The
Arts
and Industries Building is the second-oldest Smithsonian building on the
Mall. The
Cooper-Hewitt is America's National Design Museum. The
Freer Gallery of Art houses
an internationally recognized collection of Asian art and the world's largest
group of works by American artist James McNeill Whistler. The
Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden is a collection of 19th- and 20th-century paintings and
sculptures. The National
Air and Space Museum, dramatizes the history of flight, space science, and
space technology, and offers presentations both in the large screen
Langley Theater and
as well as in the Albert
Einstein Planetarium.
The Smithsonian also includes the National Museum of African Art, which is devoted to the
collection, study, and exhibition of African art. The
National Museum of American Art
houses a collection of some 36,500 American paintings, sculpture, folk art,
photographs, and graphic arts. The National Museum of American History, traces the American heritage through
cultural, scientific, and technological exhibitions. The National Museum of the American
Indian is located in the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in
New York City. The National Museum
of Natural History is one of the world's great centers for the study of
earth history, human cultures, and the diversity of the natural world. The
National Portrait
Gallery presents portraits of men and women who have made significant
contributions to the historical and cultural development of the United States,
including the leaders of our country, prominent politicians, sports heroes,
artists, writers, and scientists.
The Smithsonian's
National Postal Museum traces the personal, commercial, political, and
social impact of the postal service on American life and is the largest and
most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world. The National Zoo is
home to thousands of animals representing some 500 species, many in settings
that offer insights into social behavior and ecology. The
Renwick Gallery features changing exhibitions of contemporary American
crafts, as well as a selection of works, from 1900 to the present, from its
permanent collection. The Smithsonian
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and National Air and Space Museum
contains links to servers with images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with
Jupiter and the Space Shuttle Repository and Regional Planetary Image Facility.
The Smithsonian Natural History
Museum Web documents museum research and contains more than 120 million
scientific specimens and cultural artifacts from around the world.
Libraries
The Library of Congress has a
number of online exhibits and uses
the Internet to make available selections of its print and photograph
collections. It provides access to its collection through services such as
LC MARVEL, which allows users to
search on-line catalogs and databases.
National Library of
Medicine is the world's largest library dealing with a single professional
topic. It offers extensive online services dealing with clinical care,
toxicology and environmental health, and basic biomedical research.
Arts
The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge is a service that links
the arts and education through technology. The General Service Administration's
Cultural and
Economic Affairs Division direct's the Arts-in-Architecture program, which
seeks to incorporate fine art in the design of Federal buildings, and is
responsible for all fine arts management of the national Fine Arts
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