Google Cultural Institute

Makes important cultural material available and accessible to everyone and to digitally preserves them to educate and inspire future generations. Sources include the British Museum, Yad Vashem, the Museo Galileo in Florence, the Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
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Time Team

Aired on Channel 4 from 1994 to 2014. Each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Tony Robinson explaining the process in layman’s terms. The sites excavated over the show’s run ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War.
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The Museum of the Moving Image

Advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretative programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artefacts.
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The British Museum: home educators

The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works,[3] is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence[3] and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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Cobb and Co Museum (Queensland Museum)

This Museum, physically based in Toowoomba, focuses on historical and cultural aspects of Queensland and Australia. The museum houses over fifty horse-drawn vehicles, including sturdy drays and farm wagons, that tell the story of European settlement on the Darling Downs, while sulkies and buggies demonstrate transportation imported to Australia during the 1880s.
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United Nations

The site provides detailed and current information on specific aspects of UN operations: Peace and Security; International Law; Humanitarian Affairs; Human Rights; and Economic and Social Development.
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BTN – Behind The News

Features ABC News videos based on current affair issues and events happening around the world. Watch online videos of weekly TV episodes on the ABC channel. Introduces young people to the world of news.
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Queensland Museum of Learning resources

This collaboration between the Museum and seconded Education Queensland teachers has produced exciting innovative and interactive resources on topics such as dinosaurs, biodiversity, sustainable living, backyards and the Great Barrier Reef.
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Dinosaur World

Get up close and personal with the only T-Rex in Australia! Marvel at Protoceratops, the horned dinosaur… plus many more. See some of the tallest & smallest meat-eating dinosaurs. Dinosaurs from the Jurassic & Cretaceous periods of time. Meet Velociraptor made infamous in the movie “Jurassic Park”
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Britannica School

Britannica School is an online, interactive learning resource for pupils and teachers from primary and secondary schools through to undergraduate study. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research, classroom exploration, and curriculum standards.
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The Bible Museum

Located in St Arnaud, a town in regional Victoria, the Bible Museum and Butterfly Garden opened in 2009. Founded by Ellen and Jean Reid, it has a large collection of over 1500 Bibles and related items.
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Bartleby – Great Books Online

The preeminent Internet publsiher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Included are: Emily Dickinson, Quotations, Lives of the Saints,Poetry Anthologies, Strunk’s Style, Walt Whitman, Bartlett’s Quotations, Robert Frost, Proverbs and Maxims, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud and more
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Web Gallery of Art

Covers the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 39.300 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.
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TATE

Family of four galleries housing twentieth century British and international art.
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum of decorative arts and design, housing a collection of 4.5 million objects.
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Rijks Museum

Massive selection of Dutch paintings from the Golden Age.
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State Hermitage Museum

Located in St Petersburg. Three million works of art and artifacts representing Russian and world culture.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Collection captures the character and imagination of Americans through three centuries.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art

We bring the arts to life, inspiring visitors—through scholarly study and creative play—to discover the spirit of imagination that lies in everyone. We connect people with the arts in rich and varied ways, making the experience of the Museum surprising, lively, and always memorable.
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Pioneer Settlement Swan Hill

Set on three hectares of land on the banks of the Little Murray River, the Pioneer Settlement lets you experience Australian history first hand. Swan Hill, Open air, Features over 50 original and replica heritage buildings
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