The Museum Loan Network(MLN) has recently launched 3D virtual exhibitions on
its website at http://loanet.mit.edu/Web/.  In accessing these virtual
exhibitions, online visitors will be able to naviagate through the galleries
as if they were actually walking in the museums.  Visitors will be able to
see five installations made possible through the MLN's grants, including
long-term exhibitions of Asian Art at the Harn Museum of Art, FL., Aztec and
West Mexican Art at the Mint Museum of Art, NC., African Art at the Williams
College of Art, MA.,  Noguchi sculptures at the Mobile Museum of Art, AL.,
and Asian Art at the Joslyn Museum of Art, NE.  To access these on-line
exhibitions go to the What's New section of the homepage and click on
Virtual Exhibitions.  If you have any problems using the Live Picture
Plug-in, please contact the MLN office at [log in to unmask] or 617-252-1888 and
we will be happy to assist you.

The Museum Loan Network(MLN), awarded 20 new grants in January 1999.  For
more information and a list of grants awarded, please go to our homepage at
http://loanet.mit.edu/Web/.  **MLN's next deadline is May 7, 1999.**

The Museum Loan Network – the first comprehensive national
collection-sharing program – stimulates, facilitates and funds long-term
loans of art among U.S. institutions to enhance museums’ "permanent"
installations.  The MLN’s program consists of two complementary components:
the MLN Directory, an illustrated online database that includes objects
available for long-term loan by museums around the country, and the MLN
grant programs, which help realize loans between institutions.  Launched in
1995, the MLN is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and
The Pew Charitable Trusts, which conceived and initiated the program, and is
administered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Office of the Arts.

  
Lori Gross, Director
Museum Loan Network
MIT
265 Massachusetts Ave., N52-439
Cambridge, MA 02139-4370
tel: 617-252-1888
fax: 617-252-1899
e-mail: [log in to unmask]