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An early Mickey Mouse doll, Apache playing cards, and a rather extensive Christmas plate collection are but a few of the 129 items featured on this digital exhibit created by the staff at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The Museum created this online exhibit to highlight a few of their most unusual items, with a focus on those objects that are difficult to exhibit due to their fragile condition. Many...

Inside/Out is a collection of MoMA blog threads, where anyone willing to engage in polite conversation can get involved. A disclaimer on the website says, "INSIDE/OUT is a forum for informal conversations involving MoMA and MoMA PS1 staff, artists, invited guests, and visitors." Posts are organized into a number of different categories such as Artists, Behind the Scenes, or Collection &...

Looking for works by John James Audubon, Karl Bodmer, Thomas Hart Benton, or Douglas Martin on the web? Pieces of art from all of these artists can be found at the Museum of Nebraska Art, located in Kearney. Fortunately, the museum also has this nice website, which provides those curious web-browsing individuals with access to parts of their collection, along with information about their various...

Mountain Stage, a famous Charleston, West Virginia, venue where folk musicians play, is broadcast on National Public Radio, and can be heard on the NPR website, simply by clicking on "Listen", next to the artist's picture and brief bio. Visitors wishing to read more about the artist's musical history can click on the name of the artist next to their picture. Included in the history is their set...

This archived version of the exhibit: "Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product" provides a PDF of a press release along with information about the content and context of the exhibit. The exhibition traced the process that takes samples to final products in a variety of contexts, ranging from home furnishings to architectural ornament to textile design. Highlights of the exhibition included an...

Originally begun as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, has an impressive website that is easily accessible and fun to browse. Click on the "See" tab at the top of the page to choose from "Current Exhibitions", "Past Exhibitions", "Traveling Exhibitions", and "Search the Collection". To see the highlights of the Museum's collection of jewelry, quilts,...

This exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery examines attitudes towards sexuality and difference in American art from the late 19th century to the present. Some of the artists in the show are homosexual; some are heterosexual; and the sexuality of the subjects of the works varies as well. As one of the curators, Jonathan Katz, says, "it's impossible ... to weed gay from straight in the...

Since February 2005, National Public Radio has been presenting live concerts that highlight a wide variety of bands, including those that play in the idiom of alt-country and hard-edged classic soul. If one didn’t hear these concerts when they were originally broadcast, they can take advantage of this fine archive offered on this site. The most recent concert offered here (in its entirety) is that...

Back in middle decades of the 20th century, radio ruled the roost as millions tuned in each week to listen to the adventures of Little Orphan Annie, the Lone Ranger, and a multitude of soap operas. The Old Time Radio Researchers Group (OTRR) is a community of fans and avid listeners who work to preserve, restore and share the classic shows from what is "commonly known as the 'Golden Age of Radio'...