Recognizing achievement in heritage Web site design, a committee of museum professionals selects the Best of the Web each year.
Nomination Deadlines
Nominations for sites to be considered by the Best of the Web Judges were accepted between November 1 and January 6, 2006.
The winners will be announced at MW2006 in Albuquerque, on Friday, March 24, 2006.
Sites Nominated
Nominations have been received in the following categories: E-Commerce or Services, Education, Innovative, On-line Exhibition, Museum Professional's Site, and Research Site.
The judges will all use the same set of Criteria when reviewing nominated sites.
Nominations have been received in the following categories: E-Commerce or Services, Education, Innovative, On-line Exhibition, Museum Professional's Site, and Research Site.
E-Services
- Bruce Moffitt Jewelry
http://www.bruce-moffitt-jewelry.com - Christmas in Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/christmas/ - Dinosaurnews
http://www.dinosaurnews.org - Disfarmer
http://www.disfarmer.com/gallery - FloraBase, the Western Australian Flora
http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au - Glenbow Museum Collection Search/Online Photo Ordering: Archives Photographs and Museum Art and Arti
http://www.glenbow.org/collections/ - Historic Seattle
http://www.historicseattle.org - Knitting
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/knitting/index.html - McMichael Canadian Art Collection Store
https://www.mcmichael.net/mcac/e-shop/mcacshop.nsf - Membership: Join or Renew
http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/get_involved/join_or_renew.html - Milwaukee Public Museum
http://www.mpm.edu - Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) Online Store
http://shop.mnhs.org - MoMAstore
http://www.momastore.org - Musee.com - Museum Stores on the Web
http://musee.com - Museum der Moderne Salzburg
http://www.museumdermoderne.at/ - Peabody Essex Museum Shop
http://www.pemshop.com/default.aspx - Tate Art on Demand
http://www.tate.org.uk/artondemand/ - The Medicine Hat Historic Clay Industries National Historic District
http://www.medalta.org - The Weather Page
http://www.ojaivalleymuseum.org/webcam.htm - Welcome to Chateau Country! (entire site)
http://www.chateaucountry.org - WELCOME TO THE ONLINE SHOP
http://pcyouthsorganisation.faithweb.com/photo.html
Education
- A HISTORY of EARLY VISUAL & POPULAR MEDIA
http://www.visual-media.be/visualmedia-index.html - A Journey to a New Land
http://www.sfu.museum/journey/ - Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/lincoln - American Revolution Digital Learning Project
http://www.amrevonline.org/museum/ - Ancient Greece
http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk - Architect Studio 3D
http://www.architectstudio3d.org - Arkive. Images of Life on Earth
http://www.arkive.org/ - Art Exchanges
http://www.artexchanges.org.uk - Articulate
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/education/articulate/index.html - BC Field Trip Guide
http://www.bcfieldtrips.ca/search.jsp - Beauty and the Book
http://www.imj.org.il/youthwing/exhibitions/books/index.html - BT Series: Tracey Emin
http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/ - C. H. Moore Homestead DeWitt County Museum
http://www.chmoorehomestead.org/ - Collaborative Arts Resources for Education
http://www.carearts.org - Creative Writing About Museums
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/adult_resources/creative_writing/index.html - Currier Museum of Art Online Curriculum
http://curriculum.currier.org/ - Discovering Lewis and Clark
http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-channel.asp?ChannelID=300 - E. O. Hoppé: Photographer Edwardian Modernist (1878-1972)
http://www.eohoppe.com - Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
http://www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk/trail.html - Full Fact Sheet List
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/index.htm - Fungi of Australia
http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/types-of-fungi.html - Get Energized!
http://www.ak.blm.gov/getenergized.html - Gunpowder, Treason & Plot/The Gunpowder Plot: Parliament & Treason 1605
http://www.gunpowderplot.parliament.uk/ - Harvest of History
http://www.harvestofhistory.org/ - Ingenious Ireland
http://www.ingeniousirelandonline.ie - Kids Zone
http://www.history.org/kids/ - Life of a Rock Star
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/rock/index2-e.html - Lou Henry Hoover's Cross-Country Adventure
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hhlmgame/hhlmgame.html - Mission San Juan Capistrano
http://missionsjc.com/ - Mystery of the X-Fish
http://mystery.gmri.org/default_live.aspx - Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Paintings and Prints
http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/japanesepaintings/index.stm - New Mexico History
http://www.newmexicohistory.org - Niitsitapiisinni: Our Way of Life
http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/ - NMfossils.org
http://nmfossils.org - Old State House Museum
http://www.oldstatehouse.com - Online Educational Programs
http://www.wrhs.org/template.asp?id=182 - Oregon History Project
http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/index.cfm - Outstanding lesson plans and book reviews dealing with the Holocaust submitted to the U.S. Holocaust
http://mandelproject.us/index.html - Palaeography: Reading old handwriting, 1500-1800
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography - Park Explorer - London Parks Discovery Project
http://www.parkexplorer.org.uk/ - Pastexplorers
http://www.finds.org.uk/pastexplorers/ - People and Parliament: Landmark Descions 1855 - 2006
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/peopleparliament/ - Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase
http://euterpe.bobst.nyu.edu/mednar/ - Pioneer museum kids world
http://www.goldenpioneermuseum.com/children.htm - Plants and People of China
http://www.oac.schools.sa.edu.au/dev/chinese/ - Princeton University Art Museum Interactives
http://www.secondstory.com/search.php?ID=80 - Red Studio: A MoMA Site for Teens
http://www.moma.org/redstudio - RedShift Now
http://www.redshiftnow.ca/ - Science Bulletins
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org - Science Explorations
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/ - Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum
http://www.sierranevadavirtualmuseum.com - Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History
http://www.smithsoniansource.org - Step Into History
http://ameddregiment.amedd.army.mil/fshmuse/fshmuse.htm - Take One Picture
http://www.takeonepicture.org.uk/ - Teaching the Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/education/teacher-resources/recent-issues.cfm - The American Museum of Photography
http://www.photographymuseum.com - The John Rylands University Library
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/ - The Marian Koshland Science Museum
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/ - The Microscope Imaging Station
http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station - The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
http://www.sullivanclinton.com - The War on the Walls: Posters from the George F. Tyler Collection
http://exhibitions.library.temple.edu/ww1/ - Tramline's Virtual Field Trips
http://tramline.com/trips.htm - Turning Points in Wisconsin History
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints - U-505 Submarine Online Activities
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/onlineactivities/index.html - Understanding Evolution
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ - Untold London
http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk - Zaragoza romana
http://www.heraldo.es/romana/ - Zoo Matchmaker
http://www.mnzoo.org/education/games/matchmaker/index.html
Innovative
- AIGA Design Archives
http://designarchives.aiga.org - Arabic words in English
http://83.223.102.16/words/ - Bradford Table Carpet Screensaver
http://www.tudorbritain.org/fun/landing.asp - Churchill Speech Interactive
http://www.churchillspeeches.com - Colonial Williamsburg: Past & Present Podcasts
http://www.history.org/media/podcasts.cfm - Discover Prestongrange Museum with an audio tour on your mobile phone
http://www.prestongrange.org/ - Electronic Swatchbook
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/electronicswatchbook/ - EVERY OBJECT TELLS A STORY
http://www.everyobject.net - Eyelevel
http://eyelevel.si.edu - Folk Songs for the Five Points
http://www.tenement.org/folksongs - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, section Door to Art
http://www.haramuseum.or.jp/en/common/doorToArt/index.html - Help Wanted: Collaborations in Art
http://www.bornmagazine.org/helpwanted - Historic Preservation Learning Portal
http://www.historicpreservation.gov - http://www.ideasonair.net
http://www.ideasonair.net - Kruger Masterpieces: Inside & Out
http://krugercollection.unl.edu/detail/detail.php?image=rococo - laid table
http://www.laidtable.co.uk - Libraries Matter
http://www.librariesmatter.com - moderna museet
http://www.modernamuseet.se - MuseCasting @ The Grace
http://www.thegracemuseum.org/musecast.html - Museum of New Mexico Shops
http://shopmuseum.com - Off the Map
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/offthemap/ - Questacon - CSI
http://smartmoves.questacon.edu.au/csi/index.htm - Rietveld Schröder Online
http://www.rietveldschroderhouse.com/rondleidingEng.jsp - Science Buzz
http://www.smm.org/buzz - Science of Music
http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/ - Showcases – A Virtual Gallery
http://www.hayward.org.uk/britishartshow6/showcases/index.html - Tate Carousel
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/carousel/ - The Morning Wind
http://etfran.concordia.ca/~odyens/intro_jaccottet2.html - The Port Moody Station Museum Blog
http://portmoodystationmuseum.blogspot.com - The Sketchbooks of Antoine Roux
http://www.pem.org/roux/ - UNIQUE UGANDA
http://youthtoday.faithweb.com - Untold London
http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/ - Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org/ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Category: Museums
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums
Online Exhibition
- AlbertaSource.ca - Alberta's Online Encyclopedia
http://www.AlbertaSource.ca - An Exhibition of Works by Salvatore C DiMarco and Gilbert J. Tucker of the Philadelphia Evening Bull
http://exhibitions.library.temple.edu/bulletin/default.jsp - arconline, EN PARALLELE# est une contribution de l'association provisoire.org
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http://arconline.org - Arts and Crafts Exhibition Microsite
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1312_artsandcrafts/ - Atlanta Celebrates Photography
http://www.acpinfo.org - Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon
http://www.moma.org/redon - Biometrics, the body as identity
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/index2.php - Brass City Life: Waterbury Neighborhoods
http://www.brasscitylife.org - C-M.TV
http://www.critical-mas.tv - Canadian Tapestry
http://www.canadiantapestry.ca/ - Churchill and the Great Republic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/ - Cover Art: The Time Collection at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/time/ - Curating the City - Wilshire Blvd.
http://www.curatingthecity.org - http://www.curatingthecity.org
- Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
http://www.amnh.org/dinosaurs/ - Dinosphere: Now You're in THEIR World!
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/dinosphere/index.html - e-gallery online, The Royal Collection
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/ - e-portfolio
http://zsgyarmati.com - Early Visual Media
http://www.visual-media.be - ECOARTNET
http://www.ecologicalart.net/johfcepebar.html - EVE - Everyone's Virtual Exhibition
http://www.billdouglas.org/eve - Fire and Faith: The Catonsville Nine File
http://c9.mdch.org/ - grenze
http://www.grenze.fr.vu - Harwood Museum of Art
http://harwoodmuseum.org - Illinois Alive! Early Illinois Heroes and Heroines: A Multimedia Memory Montage
http://www.illinoisalive.info - Island Thresholds: Contemporary Art from the Carribean
http://www.pem.org/island/ - Jeff Wall Microsite
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/ - Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
http://www.jwa.org/feminism/ - Kulturminne Ekofisk
http://www.kulturminne-ekofisk.no - Lasting Impressions: The Private Presses of New Mexico
http://www.privatepress.org - Legendary Coins & Currency
http://americanhistory.si.edu/coins - mnartists.org
http://www.mnartists.org - moderna museet
http://www.modernamuseet.se - Monta kertaa kaupunkiin (Many Ways To Town)
http://wandora.fng.fi/ (user wandora, password pandora2) - Monticello Explorer
http://explorer.monticello.org - Museu Lasar Segall
http://www.museusegall.org.br - Nathan McClain Gallery
http://www.natemcclain.com - National Portrait Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006
http://www.portraitcompetition.si.edu/index.html - New York Transit Museum
http://www.transitmuseumeducation.org/gallerytalks.html - Off the Map
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/offthemap/ - Persia: Forgotten Empire
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/forgottenempire - PlanetQuest: the Search for Another Earth
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov - Pro Civitate Museum. Osservatorio Cristiano alla Cittadella di Assisi
http://procivitate.assisi.museum - Profiles in Science
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ - Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site
http://www.rancholoscerritos.org - Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/congojournal/ - SAFE: Design Takes On Risk
http://www.moma.org/safe - Science of Gardening
http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/ - Stax Museum of American Soul Music
http://www.soulsvilleusa.com - Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
http://www.basquiatonline.org/ - Sweden and the Holocaust
http://www.svefor.se - Tales from the Vault! Canadian Pulp Fiction, 1940-1952
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/pulp - Texas Bird's-Eye Views
http://www.birdseyeviews.org/ - The American Museum of Photography
http://www.photography-museum.com/ - The Archaeology of West Point, Seattle
http://www.burkemuseum.org/westpoint - The Art of Asia
http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/ - The Cambridge Illuminations: ten centuries of book production in the medieval west
http://www.cambridgeilluminations.org/ - The Denton County Historical Museum, Inc./ Texas Heritage Center
http://www.dentoncountyhistoricalmuseum.com - The Dewdney Trail
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Dewdney - The Museum of the Smiling People (all)
http://www.museedusourire.com - The U-505 Submarine
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/index.html - Their history is our history. Two centuries of immigration history in France
http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/main.php?period=0&sous_sequence=0 - Ukaliq: The Arctic Hare / Ukaliq : Le lièvre arctique
http://nature.ca/ukaliq - uncoupdoeil
http://uncoupdoeil.free.fr - Virtual Transfer Musée Suisse
http://www.virtualtransfer.com - Waterford County Image Archive
http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org - Welcome to Nepal; National Museum
http://www.welcomenepal.com - www.streettostudio.org
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org - Zaragoza romana
http://www.heraldo.es/romana/
Professional Site
- arkansas History Commission
http://www.ark-ives.com - Conservation Journal
http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/journal/index.html - CULTURAL GUIDE OF THE CITY OF VOLOS
http://www.i-politismos.gr - E-Learning Knowledge Base
http://ekb.mwr.biz - Global Museum
http://www.globalmuseum.org - International Council of African Museums
http://www.africom.museum - Jobs Desk
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/jobs/job_titles_jobid.htm - Lee Richardson Zoo
http://www.garden-city.org/zoo - MDA Spectrum Terminology.
http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum-terminology/ - Museo & Web
http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/ workinggroups/userneeds/prototipo/museoweb_e.html - Museum Paedagogischer Dienst Berlin
http://www.mdberlin.de/vergangene_projekte.html - Prieto & Carrizosa, Attorneys at law
http://www.prietocarrizosa.com - The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
http://www.history.org - USDA Plants Database
http://plants.usda.gov/
Research
- American Art @ The Phillips Collection
http://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/index.htm - American Journeys
http://www.americanjourneys.org - Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ - Art and Architecture
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk - Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives
http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva - Birds in Backyards
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/ - Census of Canada, 1911
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1911/index-e.html - Continent X
http://www.continentx.com - Crocker Art Museum (main site redesign) including Digital Crocker Online Gallery
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org - Croton Research Network
http://www.botany.wisc.edu/croton/ - E.F. Ted Williams History Centre Artifact Database
http://appserve.noratek.com/pls/cats_web/cats_web.item_search - Fitzwilliam Museum. the Cambridge Illuminations - Virtual Exhibition
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/cambridgeilluminations/index.html - History & Heritage Arkansas State Parks
http://historystateparks.com/ - HOPL: An Interactive Historical Roster of Computer Languages
http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au - http://amnh.org
http://anthro.amnh.org - Ling Long Women's Magazine
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/linglong/ - Moselfränkisch
http://www.roscheiderhof.de/ top.php?links=frame_links.html&rechts=moselfraenkisch/index.php - National Museum of American History (main site redesign)
http://americanhistory.si.edu - NYPL Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm - Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia:Letters to Doct. Carmichael and Son
http://carmichael.lib.virginia.edu/ - Portable Antiquities Scheme database
http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk - Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/designers.html - Questia Online Library
http://www.questia.com - Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
http://www.illustratedgarden.org - Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Website
http://web-kiosk.scrippscollege.edu/OBJ*88$187121?page=88 - Smithsonian Global Sound
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org - So, This is Alberta
http://www.abheritage.ca/stia/ - Tate Papers
http://www.tate.org.uk/tatepapers/ - Tenebrionidae -
http://www.tenebrionidae.net - The Giza Archives Project
http://www.gizapyramids.org - The Herbariuim of Louisiana State University Website
http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/ - Universal Chalcidoidea Database
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/ - Utah Valley State College Online Specimen Catalog
http://herbarium.uvsc.edu/Virtual/ - www.beringia.com
http://www.beringia.com/02/02index.html
