#virtualmuseums — Public Fediverse posts

CBC: How a virtual museum is preserving Igloolik culture from the 1960s and 70s. “From games for children to hunting equipment for men, a new interactive virtual museum is bringing Igloolik culture right to your phone with one click. ‘Inuit Worlds: From Past to Present’ is an online museum that features more than 50 objects collected by the late anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure in […]

CBC: How a virtual museum is preserving Igloolik culture from the 1960s and 70s. “From games for children to hunting equipment for men, a new interactive virtual museum is bringing Igloolik culture right to your phone with one click. ‘Inuit Worlds: From Past to Present’ is an online museum that features more than 50 objects collected by the late anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure in […]

CBC: How a virtual museum is preserving Igloolik culture from the 1960s and 70s. “From games for children to hunting equipment for men, a new interactive virtual museum is bringing Igloolik culture right to your phone with one click. ‘Inuit Worlds: From Past to Present’ is an online museum that features more than 50 objects collected by the late anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure in […]

CBC: How a virtual museum is preserving Igloolik culture from the 1960s and 70s. “From games for children to hunting equipment for men, a new interactive virtual museum is bringing Igloolik culture right to your phone with one click. ‘Inuit Worlds: From Past to Present’ is an online museum that features more than 50 objects collected by the late anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure in […]

CBC: How a virtual museum is preserving Igloolik culture from the 1960s and 70s. “From games for children to hunting equipment for men, a new interactive virtual museum is bringing Igloolik culture right to your phone with one click. ‘Inuit Worlds: From Past to Present’ is an online museum that features more than 50 objects collected by the late anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure in […]

Intent Press: Operational Command “South” opened a virtual museum. “The virtual museum is dedicated to the units that are now part of the operational command ‘South’. Currently, the museum has five virtual halls dedicated to the 17th, 19th and 20th Army Corps, the 30th Marine Corps and the Odesa Operational and Tactical Group.”

UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World’s First Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at a global scale at MONDIACULT 2025. “Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital technology to raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, one of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/16/unesco-unesco-launches-the-worlds-first-museum-of-stolen-cultural-objects-at-a-global-scale-at-mondiacult-2025/

Muscat Daily: Olympic Council of Asia to open first Asian Games Virtual Museum in October. “The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) will launch the Asian Games Virtual Museum in October, creating the first comprehensive digital archive of Asia’s premier sporting competition.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/muscat-daily-olympic-council-of-asia-to-open-first-asian-games-virtual-museum-in-october/

New-to-me, from Vogue HK: Inside LA MUSEUM, The World’s First Virtual Fashion Museum. “A boundary-pushing digital archive born from Tokyo’s cult vintage store LAILA, LA MUSEUM is redefining how we access and preserve fashion history.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/vogue-hk-inside-la-museum-the-worlds-first-virtual-fashion-museum/

Psychology Today: Is Art Appreciation Going Digital?. “Asking the question of how going to a museum and viewing art in person compares to viewing the same art on a computer screen requires having a way to measure the impacts of that art. As part of a programmatic line of research, we developed a taxonomy of words that captures the range of potential cognitive and affective aesthetic impacts. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/28/psychology-today-is-art-appreciation-going-digital/

February is Black History Month - join us in Second Life as we highlight destinations and events celebrating Black History.

Armstrong Park is a public park, memorial, and museum where you can take a virtual tour highlighting the life of Louis Armstrong and his music.

Take the teleport: https://secondlife.com/destination/armstrong-park

#SecondLife #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #metaverse #VirtualMuseums

February is Black History Month - join us in Second Life as we highlight destinations and events celebrating Black History.

Meroe Museum has two new exhibits and several Black History Month events throughout the month. Starting tonight attend their BHM open mic, spoken word, and live DJ events.

Take the teleport: https://secondlife.com/destination/meroe-museum

#SecondLife #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #metaverse #VirtualMuseums

February kicks off Black History Month - join us in Second Life as we highlight destinations and events celebrating Black History. Attend PBC’s 4th annual Black History Month events celebrating the theme "Black History is American History - African Americans and The Arts" with live DJs and dancers on February 4th and 17th! Destination: https://secondlife.com/destination/pbc

#SecondLife #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #metaverse #VirtualMuseums

Dive deep into the roots of our virtual world at the Primitive Museum and then journey through the rest of the Museum category on the Second Life Destination Guide to learn more about art, science, and global cultures. A world of discovery awaits!

Teleport now ➡️ https://second.life/destinations011124

#SecondLife #SecondLifeDestinations #StayVirtual #metaverse #virtualworld #VirtualMuseums

Happy International Museum Day! Explore the many virtual Museums in Second Life and gain insight into the world of art, science, and global cultures.

Take the teleport ➡️ https://secondlife.com/destinations/learning/museums

#InternationalMuseumDay #SecondLife #VirtualWorld #Metaverse #VirtualMuseums

📎 Link of the day: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums

The Obsolete Computer Museum (since 1995) is "a place to stop by and reminisce about the old days of personal computing." It's a sizeable collection of old computers with protographs and short descriptions.

#lotd #virtualmuseums #fun #web

📎 Link of the day: http://www.illusions.org/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums

This website is a collection of "around 100 optical illusions to browse through involving patterns, colors and shapes."

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📎 Link of the day: http://www.airsicknessbags.com/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums » Weird

Yes, a virtual museum devoted to air sickness bags. C'est la vie.

#lotw #weird #virtualmuseums #fun #web

📎 Link of the day: https://www.oldest.org/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums

Oldest.org (and its sister projects, Largest.org and Rarest.org) are blogs that feature the oldest (or largest or rarest) things in the world, organised by category.

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📎 Link of the day: http://www.officemuseum.com/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums

The Early Office Museum engages in research on the history and evolution of offices, antique office machines and equipment, and business technology based on original documents, artifacts, and vintage photographs.

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📎 Link of the day: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/hall-of-fame/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums

A hall of fame of websites, virtual museums and collections devoted to aspects of antique and vintage times.

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📎 Link of the day: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/
📂 Category: Fun » Virtual Museums » Weird

"The first virtual museum in the world entirely devoted to the history, evolution, science, sociology and art of Carrots." Yes, you read that right 🥕

#lotw #weird #virtualmuseums #fun #web