© VL logo

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Culture


Information categorized by subject. Please do not hesitate to mail Bernhard Nocker (bnocker AT cosy.sbg.ac.at) if you know of any online information not in these lists.


What's Nice

  • The Metroplolitan Museum of Art
  • Explore Newtons´s Castle to learn about the discoveries and secret life. Learn about color, optical illusions, observations from nature and fascinating facts about how cars roll up hill and why dogs chase cars.
  • Ancient Egypt the curse of King Tut Fact or Myth.
  • ArtiFAQ which chronicles Art History.
  • Salmon Poetry. Salmon is one of Ireland's major literary publishers, celebrating our 21st anniversary this year. As well as a great range of contemporary Irish poetry, it also has a broad international list.
  • Learning about Leonardo is a multidisciplinary science driven web-based project developed by computer graphics students at high schools in the Bronx and Sweden, exploring the mystery of the Mona Lisa through scientific inquiry and presenting original music composed by Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Luxembourg
  • FranceWay is dedicated to France, its culture, how to, and more.
  • PopCultures.
  • Dramnuie Edinburgh Film Festival, the longest continually running film festival in the world.
  • Disneyland.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
  • The National Art Library is a research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
  • ARTSCENE is the Guide to Art Galleries and Museums in Southern California.
  • The Really Useful Company's official Andrew Lloyd Webber Interactive Website presents a lot of material and dates.
  • Jewish/Israel Culture
  • Hamburgische Staatsoper gibt eine Uebersicht ueber die aktuelle Spielzeit, den aktuellen Monatsspielplan, alle Premieren und zusaetzlich allgemeine Informationen zur Oper. (only German)
  • Millennium Film Journal specializes in experimental cinema (video, film, newer technologies) and is now published on the World Wide Web.
  • Ghent is a new web site which offers extensive information on the Flanders International Film Festival. You can find all the information one would like to know about Belgium's most prominent yearly film event : historical outline, practical info, guest lists, programme profile, dates, events, festival regulations, ... The site also offers information on the City of Ghent, one of the most beautiful mediaval cities in Europe.
  • Rik's Café Canadian will serve you cold coffee and hot ideas.
  • Autumn Leaf Performance is a Toronto organization involved with the training, research and development and production of cotemporary music music performance and opera.

    Festivals

    Exhibitions

    Tourism Information

    Organisations

    Miscellaneous


    Festivals

  • Ghent is the Flanders International Film Festival.

    Exhibitions

  • Guildhall Western Art Gallery features art of the American West. There are both original paintings and signed and numbered prints available for sale. The subject matter of our paintings include, Native Americans, Cowboys, Horses and Other Livestock, and Wildlife.
  • Library of Congress Exhibits presents exhibitions that have been displayed at the Library of Congress. It is a collection of inputs from several individuals that was prepared for browsing.
  • Contours of the Mind, a celebration of Fractals, Feddback, and Chaos, is an exhibition of Sonic and Visual Art at the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery.
  • W3 Paris is a collection of different views onto Paris from different people that obviously all enjoyed their visit to the capital of France.

    Tourism Information

  • mTrip Travel Guides
  • Luxembourg
  • Greece
  • Hungaria
  • Austria
  • The Virtual Tourist
  • Vienna User Interface Group

    Organisations

  • Autumn Leaf Performance is a Toronto organization involved with the training, research and development and production of cotemporary music music performance and opera.

    Miscellaneous

  • EPINIKION The official site of progressive power metal project
  • Millennium Film Journal
  • Documentary Educational Resources (DER) is a nonprofit corporation that distributes anthropology films and videos. DER's Web catalog contains over 250 films & videos about people & cultures on six continents. All content is available in a variety of formats, including digital, for CD-ROM, Web and other multimedia formats. research, programs, and software, a link to other art resources electronic and terrestrial.
  • Deutsche Datenquellen has set up a server at University of Karlsruhe that contains info about culture related studies in Germany (Only available in German language).
  • Cultronix is a cultural studies theoretical journal available electronically. It makes use of a mixed format, with articles featuring text, graphics, audio, video and interactive hypermedia.
  • Library of Congress presents pages about exhibits, american memory, country studies, global electronic library, and more.

    Related Fields

    Museums * Humanities
    Guess, this needs regular more updates? BC20111016