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Museums in G e r m a n y

The German section of the ICOM VLmp charts resources on the web which are provided by museums in Germany, institutions of that branch and other services adjoined to this field. Since 1999 the German section of the Virtual Library provided resources on museum studies and other scientific fields of research.

The services and web-based information offered by ICOM VLmp Germany are edited under scientific principles that take in account relevance, quality and the usefulness for the work in and with museums. Therefore, the catalogue is restricted to a set of essential and outstanding resources and links.

Contents: Important resources | Electronic communication | Informations in some specialized areas | Electronic journals and publications | Museum-related informations | Catalogues

Important resources on German museums online

• ICOM Deutschland
  
• Deutscher Museumsbund > sources

Electronic communication and information

• H-Museum
  The H-Net Network for Museum Studies is a moderated mailing list and information forum. This means that texts are reviewed by an editorial panel, revised if necessary and only then transmitted. The manager of the list will ensure that the contents meet academic standards and prevent their use for commercial, non-academic or non- relevant purposes. The editorial team is supported by an advisory board. The mailing list addresses themes and questions primarily relating to museums and memorial places, but is also intended to be interdisciplinary, so that archaeological, historical, cultural and artistic information can be posted alongside other more established, central spheres of activity. Articles relating to the activities and news of archives and libraries will also be listed. A particular feature is the emphasis on museums and the internet. You will also find accounts and discussions of exhibitions, reviews of books and other communication media, as well as reports of conferences and calls for papers. Founded June 2001, the list have over 5100 subscribers (May 2006), H-Museum is an international mailing list, the main languages are English and German, but sometimes French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch too. [Archiv]

• Demuseum
  Maintained by Wolfgang Röhrig at the German Historical Museum, founded 1995 and since 1999 part of Virtual Library Museums. Announcements of exhibitions, object-research, restoration issues, Electronic Dataprocessing in the museums, jobs etc. This list is open for every museum related topic and non-moderated, about 1200 subscribers (July 2005), German-language. [Archiv]

• Mailinglist for Volunteers in Museums
  This list is maintained by the German Museums Association and founded by the "Arbeitskreis Volontäre und Volontärinnen".

• E-Mail Register
  Maintained by Robert Strötgen, University of Hildesheim (since 1997)

Informations on German museums in some specialized areas

• Museum law and the protection of cultural property and monuments (In German / English)
  Maintained by Klaus Graf, University of Freiburg

• Museum education
  Maintained by 'Bundesverband Museumspädagogik e.V.'

• Special and curios museums (In German)
  Maintained by Stephanie Marra, Faculty of cultural sciences, University of Dortmund

• Museums of Technology and Industry (In German)
  Maintained by Robert Strötgen, Social Science Information Center, Bonn

• Memorial Places and Monuments (In German)
  Maintained by 'Topographie des Terrors', Berlin

• Open air museums (In German)
  Maintained by Wilfried Wörnemann, Webring Open Air Museums

• Museum Mines (In German and English)
  Maintainded by Helge Rieder, FH Trier

• History of Museums (In German)
  Maintained by Stephanie Marra / Ralf Blank

• Museums of Art (In German)
  Maintained by Christian Günther, Arts & Culture, and Tobias Kuttner, Technical University of Berlin

• Museums of Natural History (In German)
  Maintained by Monika Gause and Klaus Köhnert, mediawerk, Hamburg

Electronic journals and publications

• Museum Publications Online (Part of VL Museums Germany, in German)
  Maintained by Wolfgang Schweibenz, University of Saarbrücken

• Museologie Online (In German)
  E-Jounal on museological topics

Museum-related informations

• Virtual Library History (Part of Virtual Library Germany of W3C)
  Most important catalogue for historical resources (In German)

• Links of the Schlossmuseum Jever (In German)
  Very good catalog of museum-related links

• Link catalog for historians and historical research (In German)
  Catalogue with links on even all historical ressources of the Internet.

• Clio online (In German)
  News, reviews, resources and informations on historical topics.

• Historicum.Net (In German)
  News, reviews, resources and informations on historical topics.
  

• Stiftung Industriekultur (In German, Dortmund)
  Culture and history of industrial monuments are the main topics of the web site.

Catalogues

• WebMuseen
  Maintained by Rainer Göttlinger (since 1995)

• Museums in Germany and world-wide
  Maintained by the German Historical Museum, Berlin (since 1995)
  
• Kunst & Kultur
  Maintained by Beutin & Günther (since 1997)