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• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
  "These pages provide an eclectic collection of WWW services connected with museums, galleries and archives." A lengthy list which provides links to museums and exhibitions, zoos, planetariums, and professional information related to museums. This site is supported by ICOM.
• Museum Studies & Arts Management
  The contents of this Web site include arts management resources, ethics, laws, and mandates, bibliographic resources, professional education programs, museum documentation, grant resources, and museum discussion lists. Maintained at Vassar College.
• Museum Management Program
  A program under the National Park Service whose functions include: policy guidance & program strategy, technical information & assistance, information management, public relations, and professional development.
• Preservation Internet Resources
  "Preservation Internet Resources is a database of preservation related Web sites, listservs, usenet groups and other online electronic resources that is compiled and maintained by NCPTT (National Center for Preservation Technology and Training)."

Arts Management

• Cultural Policy & Management
  "[T]he Home Page of City University's Department of Cultural Policy and Management - Europe's largest interdisciplinary centre for arts, museums and heritage policy and management studies and research, ..."
• artsnet
  Artsites and Arts Resources relating to arts administration. From Carnegie Mellon University.
• Museum Studies & Arts Management
  The contents of this Web site include arts management resources, ethics, laws, and mandates, bibliographic resources, professional education programs, museum documentation, grant resources, and museum discussion lists. Maintained at Vassar College.

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• Art Conservation: A Guide to Internet Resources
  A resource guide from the University of Delaware Library.
• Conserve O Grams
  More than 100 short leaflets focused on specific topics in object conservation and museum techniques and practices. Published by the Museum Management Program of the National Park Service.

• CIDOC-ICOM - Committee For Documentation, International Council of Museums
  "CIDOC is the international focus for the documentation interests of museums and similar organisations." Its Museum Information Standards, 1996 section contains information and links to recent projects undertaken by this organization.
• Museum Documentation Association
  Includes information on documentation for registration, standards, terminology projects, SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard, and more.

• Foundations and Grants: A Guide to Internet Resources
• Foundation Center
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities

• Intellectual Property SIG Resources
  A collection of resources from the Museum Computer Network.
• Ethics, Laws & Mandates
  A collection of resources form the Museum Studies & Arts Management page.
• International Treaties, Conventions, and Recommendations
  A collection of resources from Cultural Policy & Management, City University, London.

• Museum Security Network
  From the Netherlands, a source of information about all aspects of art and museum security and safety.
• Cultural Protection, Security, etc.
  A collection of resources from Cultural Policy & Management, City University, London.

• Museum and cultural heritage information standards resource guide
  An extensive listing of links to resources on all types of standards (intellectual, structural, technical, etc.) for museum information, along with annotations for most entries. A joint project of the Getty Art History Information Program and the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums.

• Museum Computer Network
  The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies.
• Museum Informatics Project (MIP)
  "[MIP] ... is a collaborative effort at the University of California, Berkeley, to coordinate the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non-book collections... MIP works with faculty, collections managers, and curators to develop data models, system architectures, and demonstration and production systems as bases for coordinated and integrated approaches to the application of information technology in museums and archives."

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• Gallery Guide
  "Portal to the fine arts!" Up-to-the-minute guide to art exhibits in museums and galleries. Arranged geographically.
• Living History, Agricultural, and Open-Air Museums
  From ALHFAM.
• Museums Around the World
  A geographical arrangement from the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
• Museum Sites Online
  An alphabetical list from the Museum Computer Network.
• Yahoo: Arts: Museums, Galleries, and Centers
  Browse the alphabetical list, select a category (e.g., architecture, photography), or try Yahoo's search engine. Museum listings are included in many of Yahoo's sections including Science: Museums and Exhibits and Humanities: History: Museums and Memorials.
• Zoos
  From the WWW Virtual Library: Zoos.

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Associations and Organizations

United States

• American Association of Museums (AAM)
• American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
• Art Museum Network
• Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)
• Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
• National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Society of American Archivists (SAA)

International

• ECSITE - European Collaborative for Science, Industry and Technology Exhibitions
• ICOM - The International Council of Museums
  
• ICOMOS - International Council on Museums and Sites
• ICCROM - International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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• Museum Careers
• ASTC Job Bank - Association of Science-Technology Centers
• MERC: Museum Employment Resource Center

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