Museums
: Colonial Williamsburg Online Museum Exhibits
Tour the exhibit online (requires Flash
8, high-speed connection recommended)
View a condensed HTML version of the exhibit here.
 “Coins & Currency in Colonial America” examines the diverse types of money jingling in the pockets and purses of our colonial ancestors.
In this interactive, online exhibit, learn about varied coinage from all over the globe that influenced the currency we carry today. A glossary, top ten FAQs list, timeline, relative scale and value charts, zooming capability and sidebars all add layers of discovery to this expansive exhibit.
The exhibit includes the ubiquitous English half-penny and a 1774 Virginia shilling – one of only five known to exist – and is presented through the generosity of Joseph R. and Ruth P. Lasser of New York. The Lassers have amassed a collection of several thousand pieces, most of which are now in the collections of Colonial Williamsburg and are being exhibited here for the first time.
See the full collection, “Pounds, Pence and Pistareens: The Coins and Currency of Colonial America,” at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
  
Tour the award-winning exhibit online (requires Flash
6, 2.8Mb, high-speed connection recommended)
 Explore
colonial maps from Colonial Williamsburg's
collection in an online exhibition that
includes maps dated from 1587 to 1782.
The online exhibition looks at maps relating
to colonial discovery, exploration, boundary
disputes, navigation, trade, the French
and Indian War, and the Revolutionary
War. The exhibition features a zooming
tool allowing a close look at map details,
a glossary of terms, and a timeline of
major events in history that occurred
near the date a particular map was drawn.
 The
online exhibition is a companion to the
book "Degrees of Latitude: Mapping
Colonial America" by Margaret Beck
Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro. The
illustrated volume looks at the inspiration
behind the production of 73 maps, atlases,
and sea charts and was published in association
with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., as part of
the Colonial Williamsburg Decorative Arts
Series.
Order Today - $9.95 -- the enhanced “Mapping Colonial America” CD-ROM at www.williamsburgmarketplace.com.
Extras include a zooming tool to see map details, a surveying video, and side-by-side comparisons to modern maps. Also available at Colonial Williamsburg bookstores.
Tour
the exhibit online at www.chipstone.org
 The
first major display of Southern furniture
in more than 40 years, an exhibition titled
"Furniture of the American South"
ended in January 2002 at the DeWitt Wallace
Decorative Arts Museum. The exhibition
highlighted the cabinetmaking traditions
and diversity of the South's three principal
regions – the Chesapeake, the Low
Country and the Back Country. Colonial
Williamsburg's Southern Furniture Collection
can now be seen online and enjoyed by
a wide range of people because of the
foresight of a generous couple whose love
of antique furniture grew into a public
gift.
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