Interactive Web sites and media installations backed by powerful databases allow for unsolicited discoveries where users engage in deep, intuitive online investigations. Second Story has taken the library science model of retrieval and enhanced it with a dose of serendipity. These projects often provide unmediated access to visually rich resources where personalization features empower users to comment, collect, organize, exhibit and share.

This gallery of interactives creates a treasury of first-person accounts of Native medicine in action.

Nine towering panels filled with interactive media and artifacts reveal the past, present, and possibilities of the University of Oregon experience.

At once artistic, commemorative, and informational, this interactive table playfully recognizes every individual alumnus of the University.

Interactive tower acts as a time machine for baseball statistics, allowing visitors to warp back in time to find record-breaking moments, historic milestones, and compare player statistics.

From abacus to IBM, this online exhibition chronicles the first 2,000 years of human innovation in the world of computing. In a story that is evolving before our eyes, this site reveals the fascinating, interlaced narrative of computers, the technology that drives them, and the people who made it happen.

DocsTeach harnesses the vast resources of the National Archives and empowers educators with a flight of online tools to apply primary resources in the classroom.

Seventeen interactive case explorers amplify the historic exhibit of native Alaskan artifacts at Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center.

Encompassing tens of thousands of records and growing, AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design.

Interactive kiosks at The Autry National Center enhance their exhibit, Art of Native American Basketry, with an experience that draws connections across cultures via the unique craft of basket weaving.

Mounted next to a display case of Mickey Mouse-inspired merchandise from the 1930s, this playful interactive provides tours, information and supplemental images of many of the artifacts in the collection.

Hundreds of Walt Disney’s awards are on display in this museum’s lobby where interactive screens provide additional insight about the accolades in the collection.

Reuniting artworks from the Fifty Works for Fifty States gift, this digital collection allows curators to collaborate in creating a unique resource on contemporary minimalist and post-expressionist art.

Groups of visitors delve into music and words on this large-format interactive table to explore the diversity of the musical landscape and the interconnections between musical genres.

Highlights from the 10 billion+ collection of documents at the National Archives are launch points for unique, personalized journeys of discovery through the history of the United States.

Through a comprehensive database of images and objects connected to an interactive map of the plantation and a navigable 3-D recreation of the home, this Web site brings the experience of being at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to life online.

This comprehensive resource to the study of philately and postal operations provides unparalleled access to one of the Smithsonian’s largest collections.

This interactive archive provides broad accessibility to an extensive collection of contemporary design for research and reference.

Interactive maps, measured drawings, and models of every tomb in the Valley of the Kings interconnect thousands of photographs, illustrations, and exhaustive research in this new standard for archeological publishing.

A dynamic timeline serves up an archive of images to tell the story of Oregon’s history in diverse, personalized presentations.

On dozens of myLOC stations deployed throughout the Library of Congress, visitors can learn about the architecture around them, play a treasure hunt–like game of discovery, and collect items on display for exploring in more detail online.