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American Garden Museum  
URL:http://www.americangardenmuseum.com
Category:International cultural institutions 

The American Garden Museum is a working online archive that celebrates American gardens and their gardeners and shows how different American gardens have evolved through history. The Museum highlights gardens big and small, urban and rural, gentle and outrageous, wildly expensive and affordable. In the 'Showcase' area of the site, a different garden or landscaped environment is profiled every couple of months. The 'Gardens' area features an interactive clickable map of the United States, where visitors may learn about prominent gardens in each state. In the Museums' Botanical Archive, it is possible to view almost 100 popular and historical garden species. Another section allows people to submit their own gardening stories or experiences, which may then be shared with the online gardening community.

American Museum of Natural History  
URL:http://www.amnh.org/
Category:International cultural institutions 

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts. The website contains information about all of the museum's current pursuits, including exhibitions, education and research.

Art Institute of Chicago WWW site.  
URL:http://www.artic.edu/
Category:International cultural institutions 

There are two main sections available on this site: The school and The museum. The school provides course information and displays student projects. In The museum, the collections are arranged by categories, including: African and Amerindian art; Asian art; Classical art; European decorative arts and sculpture; European painting; Photography; Prints and drawings; Textiles; and Twentieth-Century painting and sculpture. Each category contains an overview of the holdings in the collection, with one key work reproduced and accompanied by a detailed commentary. The activities for Kids and families are also of interest. Programs has links to Web events and sites with experimental digital art; these require exploration time to locate relevant information.

Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection  
URL:http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/
Category:International cultural institutions  Animal & Veterinary Sciences  Visual Arts & Craft 

This site showcases more than 170 lovely eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ornithological illustrations from books and art works included in or loaned to the Cornell University Library's Hill Ornithology Collection. Users can navigate the online exhibition via a collection of pull-down menus.

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) - Online Exhibitions  
URL:http://expositions.bnf.fr/usindex.htm
Category:International cultural institutions 

BNF's Bibliotheque Numerique (digital library) is showing exhibits, sites and nodes, each with images, text, notes, bibliography, some with sound. They can be used for the initiation of students as well as further exploration by scholars, into any of the fields concerned.

Canadian Museum of Civilization  
URL:http://www.civilization.ca/
Category:Librarianship & Curatorial  General Society & Culture  International cultural institutions 

The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC)regroups the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian War Museum and Museum of New France. Each museum has its own site, complete with online exhibitions, webliographies and students and teacher activities.

The Chairman Smiles - Posters from the Former Soviet Union, Cuba and China  
URL:http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/
Category:Visual Arts & Craft  Political Science & Policy  Craft & Design  Senior secondary history  International cultural institutions  Graphic & Design 

This is a selection of 145 political posters drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. The collection can be accessed through lists, by country. Background data is provided about each image as well as information about designers, collecting and collectors, poster conservation and postcard reproductions.

Commonwealth Games  
URL:http://www.commonwealthgames.com/
Category:Physical Activities  International cultural institutions 

This website contains information about the role of the Commonwealth Games Federation, and includes the complete history of the Commonwealth Games, a list of the Nations & Territories of the Commonwealth, and results from previous Commonwealth Games.

DigiCULT Report: Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy  
URL:http://digicult.salzburgresearch.at//
Category:International cultural institutions  Librarianship & Curatorial 

Being digital for many archives, libraries and museums is no longer an option but a reality. They have turned into hybrid institutions that take care of both analogue and digital cultural resources. The conversion of all sorts of cultural contents into bits and bytes opens up a completely new dimension of reaching traditional and new audiences by providing access to cultural heritage resources in ways unimaginable a decade ago. The DigiCULT Report provides recommendations for decision makers of European archives, libraries, museums and policy makers at European, national and regional level.

Future of intellectual property in the Asia-Pacific proceedings  
URL:http://www.tradingideas.org/
Category:International cultural institutions  Copyright, Digital Rights  Conference proceedings  International  International organisations 

Intellectual Property (IP) policy planners and senior business people met in Sydney to address challenges to the global IP system. Presentations from the Symposium.