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>I have heard of a "location" on the Internet called "the museum
subway"
>which apparently houses information on various types of museums.
Could
>anyone tell me anything more about this as well as perhaps any
other type
>of similar central location for museum information on the net?
 
So many museums, archives, and libraries which are Research
Libraries Group (RLG) members have put up Web pages in the last year
that we have decided to follow in the Museum Subway's footsteps (or
should I say tracks).
 
For the past few months we have been maintaining a "RLG Member Web
Exhibits" page (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/exhibits/museums.html)
on our server. So far, we have located sixteen members which offer
either online exhibits or exhibition information (if your site is
missing, drop us a line; if you're not sure whether your institution
is an RLG member, ask your librarian!):
 
--Columbia University's Digital Image Access Project (DIAP)--part of
  an RLG-sponsored project on the cataloging and management of
  digital images.
--The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.
--A half-dozen exhibits from the Library of Congress.
--Oxford University's Bodleian Library's mediaeval manuscripts.
--The Smithsonian Institution's images from its photo collection.
--The New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford University.
--The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
--The Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley,
  which lies directly above the Museum Subway station.
--The University of Dublin, Trinity College's 8th century Book of
  Kells.
--The University of Michigan's accounts of life in ancient Egypt.
--The Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota--images
  from the history of computing.
--The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota.
--The University of Texas--daguerreotypes of the Alamo and a
  collection which documents an African-American family in Texas,
  from 1867-1871.
--The Whitney Museum of American Art--exhibition information.
--Yale University Art Gallery.
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