Travel to museums all over the world without ever leaving your home! You and your children can tour the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, look at the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre Museum in Paris or even view fascinating exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute from your own computer.

See what the world has to offer and click below:

  • The Louvre: As a medieval fortress, the palace of French royalty and now a museum for the last two centuries, the architecture of the Louvre Palace bears witness to more than 800 years of history. Divided into seven departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilizations right up to the first half of the 19th century.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art: In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 3,500 objects — 50 highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire department of European paintings.
  • Bartleby.com: The preeminent Internet publisher of literature reference and verse provides students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the Web.
  • The Morgan Library: The Morgan Library, a complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, one of America's greatest collectors and cultural benefactors. As early as 1890, Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts; early printed books; and old master drawings and prints.
  • The On-Line Books Page: This Web site facilitates access to books that are free and readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books.

  • The Academy of Natural Science: This features educational programs that interpret the results of Academy research in ways that have relevance and meaning for the audiences.

  • Hands-On Science Centers Worldwide: This page contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.
  • Rose Center for Earth and Science: This fun site has five different sections for your kids to learn about earth and space.
  • Anne Frank House: This site has information on Anne Frank and her trials in her secret hiding place during the Holocaust before being taken to a Nazi concentration camp.
  • The British Museum: The museum exists to illuminate the histories of world cultures for the benefit of present and future generations. This site takes you through world history.
  • National Archives and Records Administration: This is an independent federal agency that helps preserve U.S. History. The site provides a step back in time to look at interesting things like your family history, the Declaration of Independence or even more recent U.S. laws and court decisions.
  • Smithsonian Institute: This site allows you to look at many different aspects of world history -- how things we designed, the history of art, the history of the space revolution among others.
  • NASA for kids: This site has many fun and educational activities and facts about the history of NASA and space exploration.