Website 1
The first website from teachinghistory.org that I visited is for the Milwaukee Art Museum Collection. This website was created, and is maintained by the Milwaukee Art Museum, and it’s copyright is for 2014. This means that the website is not only credible but also up to date. This site is designed for anyone who is interested in going to see the art that is housed in the museum. It has been set up well for this purpose because the hours, prices, exhibits, and much more information that the audience would be interested in is easily available. The website also helps to make the museum more accessible by providing visitors with a taste of what is inside by providing a couple hundred pictures of the thousands of works of art the institution contains. This painting by Robert S. Duncanson titled Minneopa Falls is one of the many housed on the site.
This URL is very good because not only does it make getting to know the museum user accessible, but by also providing a small sample of their work they peak the interest of those who are looking into what the museum has to offer.
Website 2
The second website that I visited from teachinghistory.com is the National Archives site on the power of propaganda during WWII. Unlike the first website for the art museum this site has not been up kept well and is starting to show its age. The sight only takes up half of the screen on the web browser making everywhere else a plain blue color. On the about the site they state they only have 11 posters and 1 audio file from a much more extensive exhibit that was in the national archive from may of 1994 to February of 1995. When you delve deeper into the site they have the pictures as promised but no information to go along with them making the website feel more bare than it already is. This site is the perfect example of what happens to a website that at one time had a use but got lost in time, and has since grown obsolete. This is disappointing because with a little bit of rejuvenation this sight could provide some interesting insight into the USA propaganda during WWII.
I think your comments on the WWII propaganda site points to something that’s quite important about websites in general and, in this case, for museums and archives, that is, maintenance and sustainability. With such vast sources of material and constant changes in technology, how do they and can they continue to develop and update their earlier work.