Digital Libraries and Museums

Digital libraries and museums
Digital Libraries

American Treasures of the Library of Congress
A permanent digital exhibition of LC’s American Treasures Gallery, which closed in 2007 ~ great primary sources!

Awesome Library
Organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources

CIA’s World Factbook
All of the facts about the world we live in collected in one place ~and it’s in the public domain!

Digital Public Library of America
Provides open access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage

Internet Archives
Digital library of free books, movies, & music

JerseyClicks
Accepts library cards from any NJ public library

Jewish Virtual Library
Visit the Holy Land and more!

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
One of the newest digital libraries available

Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
Includes the oldest known copies of biblical texts

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Digital collections on a wide variety of topics available to the public

Library of Congress Exhibitions
From Thomas Jefferson’s library to the LC Bible Collection, an abundance of primary source documents

Media History Digital Library
Collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access

National Archives
Government and historical records of the U.S. made accessible to the public

New Jersey State Archives
A gateway to historical records, photographs, and documents 

Open Library
An open source library where you can search for books and locate them in a library near you ~ Over 1,000,000 free eBook titles available!

Smithsonian Libraries
The world's largest museum library system – serving the Smithsonian Institution, the American people, and the world

World Digital Library
Significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world

Digital Museums

Albert H. Small Documents Gallery
Devoted to the display of rare and historically significant documents

American Museum of Natural History
One of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions

The British Museum
Thousands of exhibitions from all around the world

Center for Creative Photography
A museum & research center at the U of Arizona devoted to photography as an art form

Europeana 1914-1918
World War One in pictures, letters and memories

Gilder Lehman Institute of American History
A tremendous resource for Social Studies teachers

Google Arts and Culture
Features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives

Israel Museum Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project
Examine the Great Isaiah Scroll and several others

Korean War Propaganda Leaflet Collection
Collection of over 600 leaflets that became one of the primary means of winning the hearts and minds of enemy troops and Korean civilians

Memorial Hall Museum Online
A digital collection of approximately 2000 objects from Memorial Hall Museum and Library ~ explore American history hands-on!

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Search the collection by artist, culture, location, time period, or technique

National Gallery of Art
A variety of digital exhibitions include Degas and Raphael

National Museum of American History
Online exhibitions on a range of topics offer firsthand experiences with treasures of American history. 

National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story

National Women’s History Museum
Researches, collects and exhibits the contributions of women to the social, cultural, economic and political life of the American nation

Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum links individuals with art and history

Science Museum
World renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions

Smithsonian Museums
Includes 19 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A living memorial to the Holocaust

Weston Gallery
The work of more than fifty artists is represented on this online art gallery

Yad Vashem
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center