AMST205 Homework Five

Museum Web Sites

DUE Tuesday, October 22, 1996

For this homework assignment, we would like you to investigate museum sites on the Internet, in preparation for designing your own exhibit for Virtual Greenbelt.

1. Go to the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution web site and look at the following exhibits:
      a. After The Revolution
      b. A More Perfect Union
      c. From Field To Factory

What do you think about the way these exhibits are presented on the Web? How might they be improved?

2. Find TWO other museum exhibitions on the Internet and link them to your homework5.html page.

What works for these sites? How might they be improved?



Here are some sample museum sites. You may use others if you wish.

Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee

African Arts, Aesthetics, and Meaning

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park

History Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic

Information Age: People, Information and Technology

The Museum of American Financial History

Women Came To The Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson

Museum of the City of San Francisco

Tenement Museum

South Street Seaport Museum

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

Delaware in Wartime