| |
|
TRAVEL RESEARCH SITES (rated and reviewed by our editors) |
Rating
Content |
Ease
of use |
Web Site 1 Balloon=Good 2 Balloons=Better 3 Balloons=Best |
| |
 |
 |
UCR California Museum of Photography
Finally! A real internet exhibition, by the UCR California Museum of Photography. Generous displays of the museum's archives are offset by fascinating text. Check under "Innovative Collections"--you might even want to order 3-D glasses.
|
|
 |
Citysearch San Francisco: Art Galleries
We like Citysearch's informative gallery and museum descriptions. Info is diverse and current, and you can see user ratings, editorial reviews, directions and even Web site links.
|
|
|
Citysearch San Francisco: Museums
Citysearch's listing of museums includes photos, user ratings, editorial ratings, and maps for each. Click for nearby restaurants or hotels, or follow the links to the Museum's Web site for more.
|
|
|
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums have designed a 21st-century web site, reflecting their philosophy of "art access." The site is slow, but the collections, exhibitions and other online resources are full of fruits worth waiting for.
|
 |
|
San Francisco: MOMA
This web site for SF's MOMA tries to be jazzy and au courant, but we could have used more art, please. Information, though, was about as access-easy as we have ever seen.
|
|
|
De Young Museum
The De Young Museum is SF's oldest public museum. An elegant website details the various exhibitions and gives photo examples of each as well as recent additions. Check out the calendar of events, tours and lectures.
|
|
|
Fisherman's Wharf
Funky but captivating--you tell us why this site for the Wax Museum also has 9 live cam shots of SF and the latest weather report. Do print out the discount coupon. All that's missing here is a ball of wax.
|
|
|
The Heard Museum--Native Cultures and Art
Feast on remembrances and visual artifacts from San Francisco's Native American influences. Check out current exhibitions, or go to the archive for documentary research.
|
 |
|
San Francisco:Laserium
Laserium is the dazzling krypton and argon laser show performed at the Morrison Planetarium. Here is only basic info, including directions and a discount coupon you can print out. But why not just one peak at the show?
|
|
|
Performing Arts Museum and Library
This is the web site for the Performing Arts Museum and Library. We would have loved photos but only got generous descriptions of current resources, lectures, hours and directions. Still, it looks like a great place to visit.
|
|
|
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum
The museum offers witty and elegant exhibitions of contemporary craft, 20th century folk art and traditional ethnic art from at home and abroad--oh, but would the web site reflect such creativity. Alas, it doesn't. Just the facts here for an otherwise impressive museum.
|
|
 |
San Francisco: The Mexican Museum San Francisco
This is a one-page info site on the Mexican Museum on the waterfront of San Francisco Bay, established in 1975 to reflect the diversity of Mexican and Mexican-American artists. An embryonic effort that could grow to be masterfulÂ…
|
Destinations: Africa | Antarctica | Asia & the Pacific | Caribbean | Cruises | Europe | North & Central America | South America