09 Dec 2002

Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty house
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Supplied note: "Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) house, Yin Yu Tang, is being re-erected as part of the expansion of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Although the house itself will be open to the public in June 2003, we are happy to announce that the website was launched today [9 Dec 2002] .
The sections of the site - Orientation, Construction, Ornamentation, Belongings, and Preservation - all provide lenses through which to learn about the house and the project. [...] Some of the highlights of the site include the following:
* An animation (a fly-through) that allows you to "move through" the interior of the house. * Quicktime movies that present footage from the village, the house, the dismantling, as well as of cultural events. * Filters you can drag with your mouse to see the interior structure of the house or see close-ups of images of select belongings from the Huang family house. * Audio interviews with transcripts. * Writings (a story written in poetic form and a poem written for a family member's wedding). * Quotations from family members.
Technical Requirements: This Site requires the Flash Player 5 (PC) & Flash Player 6 (Macintosh) Plug-In's and Quicktime 6 for video access. Accessing this Site through a T1 or Broadband connection is advisable but not necessary. - bml."
URL http://pem.org/yinyutang/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Bruce MacLaren (bruce_maclaren@pem.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30