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Post #520125 by JONPAUL on Fri, Mar 26, 2010 1:11 PM

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The MFA Boston is another one of those institutions that does an extremely good job
keeping up with modern technology and incorporating it into their online presence.

They have a very thorough and user-friendly interactive virtual tour of 23 pieces of the
Oceanic Art collection as well as a more traditional overview here:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/sub.asp?key=22&subkey=132

For those that just want a quick fix without going to the link, here are some additional examples...

And, the advanced search functions yield examples such as...



And...completely off topic....for any Musical Instrument geeks out there, the MFA Boston has one of
the most outstanding collections of historic instruments on the planet, particularly the keyboard instruments.

More here...http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=27

There's even a section just for Oceanic Musical Instruments!!! http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_package=10102