[log in to unmask] (Marg Meikle) wrote: >Some sites >are a researcher's dream and others are merely a brochure with links. > >Are there any museum WWW sites that museums folks in general hold up as the >model for an ideal world? Is there one you all speak about in hushed tones? The Web is a museum. The urge to collect, conserve and exhibit is in the very nature of a good web site. The very idea of the "museu= m" is in the process of being rethunk by people who never had a say before. A few of my favorites (but by no means all) are: Chiat Day Idea Factory http://www.chiatday.com/factory/ Robotic Tele-Excavation http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/ Pompeii Forum Project http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/page-1.html Sarajevo Pipeline http://MediaFilter.org/MFF/SJidx.html Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the Reichstag http://www.nbn.com/youcan/christo Squashed Bug Zoo http://albert.ccae.virginia.edu/~dcm3c/zoo.html The Mattress Factory http://pscinfo.psc.edu/~mathis/mf/home.html Field Museum of Natural History http://www.bvis.uic.edu/museum/ t0 Institute for New Culture Technology http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/t0home.htm The New York Botanical Gardens http://www.pathfinder.com/@@nUShoGASFwAAQITH/vg/Gardens/NYBG/index.html Dia Center for the Arts http://www.diacenter.org/index.html UC Berkeley University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/ Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html IRCAM http://www.ircam.fr/ Ohio State University at Newark Art Gallery http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Newark/ For more check out my RESOURCES section on ArtNetWeb: http://www.awa.com/artnetweb/ _________________________________________ ROBBIN MURPHY, ArtNetBBS/ArtNetWEB 426 Broome Street, NYC 10013 Phone: 212 [log in to unmask] http://www.awa.com/artnetweb/
