Groups and Locations

history, science, ancient, natural, classic, american, earth

The museum's collections, exhibitions, research centres, education programmes, and some of the 32 million specimens and artifacts, in the field of scientific research and education, are available through this resource. Recent online exhibitions include Life in Vietnam and Einstein. More permanent exhibits are displayed through a 3-dimensional floor-plan of the museum. The description of a hall or collection or subject offers links to some of the artifacts. For example: from the Culture Halls you can look at: Indians of the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, and the Plains; African Peoples; Asian Peoples; Mexico and Central America; South American Peoples; and Pacific Peoples. Teachers' guides (mainly school-level) are available for each, providing PDF articles, evidence and analysis on subjects that range through the fields of anthropology (archaeology briefly features), history of astronomy, biology, earth sciences and paleontology, for example. There are Web pages for most collections such as North American Ethnography, where you can browse more than 50,000 artifacts online. The education resources section was nominated in the competition for Best Museum Web Site Supporting Educational Use in 'Museums and the Web 2004 : Best of the Web'.