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BKM Tech is a blog focused on the technology efforts at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Center for the Future of Museums Blog shares musings on the future of museums and society.

A forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

The blog of the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society highlights exhibitions, programs, and education while promoting women’s history through original research, interviews, and guest posts.

ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.

Artefacts Canada database contains more than 4 million object records and more than 1 million images from Canadian museums. This important source of information is made available to museum professionals and the public.

From the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. National survey of over 1500 existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights Movement with a browse-able topics index.

The Google Cultural Institute brings together millions of artifacts from multiple partners, with the stories that bring them to life, in a virtual museum. Art Project "is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums."

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project was a five-year effort at the University of Illinois to build a national infrastructure for adaptable, interoperable, and sustainable digital collections. This collaboration with IMLS and IMLS-funded projects supports IMLS' mission to create a nation of learners and sustain cultural heritage.

This digital collection of historical materials from Harvard University's libraries, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.

Previously known as American Memory. Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings and watch historic films.

The NOAA Photo Library collections reflect NOAA’s broad mission of advancing science “from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the Sun.”The collection includes thousands of weather and space images, hundreds of images of shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging from whales to the most minute plankton.

Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major collections from our museums, archives, libraries, and research units.

From the Museum Computer Network (MCN): A wealth of links to open content, educational resources for e-learning., virtual retreats to art, culture, and history around the globe.

From the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.

From the American Association for State and Local History. Resources and webinars for many museum affinity AASL community groups including: Climate and Sustainability, Educators and Interpreters, Emerging History Professionals, Field Services Alliance, Historic House Museum, History in Our Parks, Military History, Religious History, Small Museums, and Women's History.

ABS is dedicated to empowering and enriching the lives of thousands of children and adults through the life-enriching benefits of art and culture. ABS brings access, inclusion and promising opportunities to people with all types of disabilities on a local, national and global scale.

BoardSource is the recognized leader in nonprofit board leadership and supports, trains, and educates nonprofit leaders from across the country and throughout the world.

Museum related job details from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook

From the American Alliance of Museums

CCL launched a diversity mentoring initiative in 2012 to expand the demographic of art museum leaders. Each year curators participating in the core CCL fellowship identify students from underrepresented groups in their local communities who have shown interest in the arts or museums and introduce them to the activities of a curator or museum employee.

Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. The Education page contains a range Teaching and Learning Tools.

he Getty Vocabularies contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, conservation, and bibliographic materials. Compliant with international standards, they provide authoritative information for catalogers, researchers, and data providers.

n Inexhibit's MyMuseum you can find detailed information on more than 500 among the world's best-known museums. All reviews are written by our editorial staff and regularly updated

From the American Association for State and Local History

Museum Management Program is a program of the National Park Service that offers exhibits, publications, park profiles, lesson plans for teaching with museum collections, and an on-line searchable databases of selected park museum collections.

Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history.

NEW INC is an incubator for people working at the intersection of art, design, and technology.

From the American Alliance of Museums

The Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance (PSCP) aligns the Getty Research Institute's collections and the expertise of its staff with the work of scholars interested in the history of collecting, provenance, art markets, and display around the world.

The mission of the Center is to deepen, enrich, and personalize learning by encouraging and supporting the creative use of museum resources through research and collaboration with the education community.

Trafficking Culture is a research consortium that produces evidence-based research into the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.