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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Great Virtual Trips!

1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York, http://www.metmuseum.org/. Visit the collections and click on "Director's Choices," which shows twenty-five of the director's favorite objects.

2. California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California, http://www.calacademy.org/. It offers nice online tours of exhibits in the natural history museum and aquarium.

3. The White House in Washington, D.C, www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour. You can take a room-by-room tour of the presidential residence.

4. The Natural History Museum in London, England, www.nhm.ac.uk/meseum/vr/index.html. There is a tour of the online gallery of virtual objects. You can grab and rotate the objects.

5. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York, www.moma.org/collection/collection_highlights.html. You can choose a collection and see the highlights of one or more galleries.

6. National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, www.baseballhalloffame.org/help/tour.html. You can see baseball artifacts and read about baseball history.

7. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, http://www.nga.gov.au/. It provides an interesting virtual tour of an Aboriginal art exhibit and other exhibits.

8. The University of Texas in Austin, Texas, www.utexas.edu/tower/. Visit the main building of the university to see both the inside rooms and the view of the university from the top of the tower.