A Song for the Horse Nation and Other Cool Online Exhibits

The National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has a new exhibit: A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures. Can’t travel to D.C.? They have also put the exhibit online.

We’ve added a link to it under “Interesting Links” in Chapter 3 of the Montana: Stories of the Land Companion Website. 

I’ve come across several other cool online exhibits lately.

The National Library of Medicine created this exhibit: Native voices: native peoples’ concepts of health and illness.

Closer to home, check out the University of Montana Special Collections Library’s online exhibits.

They include:

• Homesteading: The Dream and The Realities
• Tales of the 1910 Fire
• Glacier National Park Centennial 1910-2010
• Transportation In & Around Missoula
• Orchards in Western Montana
• Trading Posts and Mercantiles in Western Montana
• World War I Propaganda
• Immigrant Montana
• A History of the Home Economics Department

By the way: According to its creators, Omeka—the program that UM Special Collections staff used to create their online exhibits—is “a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.” They claim that “Its ‘five-minute setup’ makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.” Given this—might the UM exhibits provide a useful model for classroom projects for the more tech-saavy among you?