To help visitors find treasures in its vast holdings, the British Museum presents COMPASS, which is based on a database of around 5000 objects selected from the Museum's collections. Simple keyword searches work well in COMPASS, and searches can be limited to a particular index. Who? searches for a particular person, What? searches for particular objects, How? for processes and materials, and...

London's Science Museum and its partners have recently opened the Dana Centre, a "dynamic events space [that] will bring the hottest themes in modern science to adults-only audiences through a programme of bold and innovative events." The Dana Centre website allows virtual visitors (over the age of 18) to "take part in exciting, informative and innovative debates about contemporary science,...

Perhaps one of the most well-regarded university-affiliated museums in the world, the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge contains close to 500,000 different objects ranging from medieval manuscripts to coins from the Roman occupation of Britain. Visitors to the site will find that there are also several excellent online exhibits that will introduce them to the breadth of the...

What Jane Saw provides 21st century visitors an opportunity to virtually attend two 18th and 19th century museum blockbusters that Jane Austen visited: the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in 1796 and the Sir Joshua Reynolds retrospective in 1813. Both exhibitions were held in the same London showroom at 52 Pall Mall. The Shakespeare Gallery is full of illustrations from Shakespeare's plays that can be...