The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 126 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include nearly 19 million books, 2.6 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 56 million manuscripts.
The Space Images Archive
Welcome to the World Wide Web (WWW) Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) a comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources
You may relocate to a more local VLmp site if response is slow.
Please contact Jonathan Bowen if you would like to maintain information on a particular topic, or support / sponsor the pages in some way. For additions to a particular page, please contact the maintainer concerned. Currently the main page receives thousands of "visitors" each week.
This site is a global clearinghouse of museums that have gone online. This site is organized alphabetically by nation or region and then alphabetically by museum name. There is a submission form available for museums that have gone online and wish to be included in the directory. The site is supposed to be searchable; however, successful searches seem to require the use of a limited set of keywords. A few of the links also seem to be dead or broken.
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
Founded in 1990 in Mississippi as an anonymous FTP site, when the World Wide Web became readily available in the US, it became a Web site as well.
The Historical Text Archive is a growing collection of articles, books, essays, and documents on a wide range of historical subjects. Most of the material included is secondary, although there are primary source documents available too. The site also offers links and images. The site is searchable, or a user can follow links in a navigation bar on the left.
A number of faculty and campus libraries provide the co-ordinated service that is Imperial College London Library. We offer a large and expanding collection of resources, both in print and electronic format, and a range of services to support learning and research.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the California Institute of Technology, is NASA's lead center for robotic exploration of the solar system. Our spacecraft have visited all the planets in our solar system except Pluto. JPL telescopes are observing distant galaxies in the universe to study how our solar system was formed.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory website acts as a hub for information about the laboratory and much of the U.S. space exploration program. The site contains articles about current projects as well as archives regarding past initiatives. The site also offers a general history section that contains images and video from early projects and links to more detailed information about specific missions.
Downtown on the farm.... Life on the Unabomber's list.... Galileo at Jupiter.... Lizard kings.... Forecasting Alzheimer's.
Named in honor of Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon, this museum in Wapakoneta chronicles Ohio's contributions to the history of space flight. Among the items on display are a F5D Sky Lancer, the Gemini VIII spacecraft, Apollo 11 artifacts and a moon rock.
Astronomers uncover new clues about what happens when white-dwarf stars explode.
Humans have been fascinated by the Moon for thousands of years, explaining it both as a deity and a physical world, recognizing its monthly re-occurrences, speculating on the origins of its surface features, and ultimately visiting it. Exploring the Moon provides knowledge about the Moon and its history of exploration.
