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American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
Approximately 2,800 lantern slides represent an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Library of Congress
Architect Studio 3D: design a house with Frank Lloyd Wright
Hands-on interactive site where users can use their imaginations to design their own architectural solutions. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
artNC
Images and background information on works of art, classroom activity ideas and lesson plans, and program listings. (Learn more)
Format: website/lesson plan
Provided by: North Carolina Museum of Art
Asian Historical Architecture
Includes thousands of images of hundreds of sites from all across Asia including temples, shrines, palaces, houses, academies, fortresses, tombs, monuments, gardens, and engineering works. Almost every historical site is accompanied by a short description... (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Tim Ciccone
The British Museum
A collection of exhibits and information that explore the past and present of cultures throughout the world through artifacts, art, and science. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: British Library
Building Big
Uses a variety of challenges and activities including simulations, building challenges, and interviews to support information that makes the story of the world's engineering wonders understandable. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: PBS by WGBH Boston
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933 - Present
This website provides an opportunity to investigate the history of the United States through the history of its buildings through digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, written history pages,... (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Library of Congress
China: An Inner Realm
An exploration, designed by high school students, of the land, culture, and language of China. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: ThnkQuest
Cities and Buildings Database
Over 5000 images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: University of Washington Libraries
Class Set-up Tool
A great tool to help teachers to design an effective classroom. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Scholastic
Classical Art Research Centre - the Beazley Archive
Browse or search this collection of classical art and archaeology. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Faculty of Classics at Wolfson College, Oxford
Colonial Williamsburg
This extensive website features access to the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library collections, primary source materials, videos of what life was like in the 18th century in Williamsburg, Va. and much more. (Learn more)
Format: website/lesson plan
Provided by: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
EDSITEment - All Subject Categories
EDSITEment links to excellent lesson plans in the subject areas of Art & Culture, Foreign Language, History & Social Studies and Literature & Language Arts. Lesson plans are carefully structured, enriched with visuals and provide a wealth of information for... (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: National Edowment for the Humanities
The Empire That Was Russia
A photographic exhibition of the works of Prokudin-Gorskii that document a lost era of Russian culture and feature the architecture, transportation, ethnic diversity, and work in Russia during the late 1800's and early 1900's. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Library of Congress
Explore Art
Search or browse the Getty collection including images of artwork and instructional video. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Getty Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
Primary sources that include detailed plans and images for five of Wright's projects that explore advanced building technologies and untried geometric patterns in his time. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Library of Congress
The Great Buildings Collection
Documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Artifice Inc.
Italy in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality tours, panoramic images, and historical information are provided in this interactive online tour through Rome, Pisa, and Florence. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Compart Multimedia
The Louvre Museum
Visit one of France's greatest museums...virtually! Explore the Louvre's collections, take a virtual tour, read about its magnificent history, and learn about featured items from its collections. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Louvre Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Official web site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art