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American Memory Collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history. Maintained by the Library of Congress, and primarily features items found in its special collections. Includes Civil War and Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs. [Maryland, USA]
Andy Worhol Museum (US) Home Page for The Andy Warhol Museum, a museum documenting the works of the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century.
The Archive: historic and artistic photographs The Archive contains over 4,000 individually selected historic and artistic photographic images that span the entire history of photography world wide. Includes some historic photographs available for sale.
Art Deco Erte Museum of fashion and theatre designs Museum of theatre and fashion designs from the father of art deco, Erte (1892-1990)
ArtsEdNet An online service developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, supporting the needs of the K-12 arts education community. Includes arts education advocacy materials, professional development, curriculum development and theory developmen
Babel (US) - for artist, online gallery and forums.
The Brooklyn Museum The second largest museum in the State of New York, The Brooklyn Museum features a collection of over a million and a half objects including works from Ancient Egypt, the arts of Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, Decorative Arts, painting and sculpture. (English)
Chesley Bonestell Space Art (US)
The Carnegie Including The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie Science Center, the Carnegie Music Hall, and the Andy Warhol Museum.
Cezanne Exhibition The Cezanne exhibition on the web. Access to virtual visit exhibition, including a selection of works, an illustrated biography, all the practical information, the press-kit, the bookstore, and a contest to win 20 CDROMs about Cezanne. (Language: French, English)
Columbia Museum of Art The Columbia Museum of Art maintains a collection of over 5000 works of European and American Fine and Decorative art dating from the 13th century to the present. This collection includes two major gifts of paintings, furniture, textiles, and bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection as well as the Flora Barringer collection of decorative art
Corcoran Gallery of Art Founded in 1869 the Corcoran Gallery of Art features American art from the eighteenth century to the present. The collection is especially known for 19th century landscapes and portraiture as well as challenging contemporary and historical works in many media including paintings, photography, prints, sculpture and multi media. (english) .
Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin College Art Museum
American Art (US) - natural museum
The Bayly Museum The Digital Image Center includes two exhibits from the Bayly Museum at the University of Virginia. African Art:Aesthetics and Meaning and Architecture 102: Renaissance and Baroque Italian Architecture
UCR/California Museum of Photography The museum offers historical photographs from the collections, commissioned contemporary art projects specifically for the Web, essays and children's media education projects.
Carleton University Art Gallery Carleton University Art Gallery is in Ottawa, Canada, the nation's capital. It houses a collection of Canadian art and European prints and presents a program of contemporary and historical exhibitions of both a national and international character. The gallery is a research resource for the university and focusses upon interdisciplinary issues. The Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art is housed in the Carleton University Art Gallery.
DAAP Galleries DAAP Galleries, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati. Includes Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, Machine Shop Gallery, and Aronoff Center for Design and Art Gallery. Changing exhibitions October through May.
ANAT - Art and Technology (AU)
ANU Art History Server There is quite a bit at this site, including a database of prints and print history, and information on classical and contemporary architecture. [Australian National University, Canberra, Australia]
Art Gallery of New South Wales This is the official site of The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. One of Australia's premier art museums, it houses important collections of Australian, Aboriginal, European, Asian and Contemporary painting, sculpture, works on paper and photography. (English)
British Columbia Museums Association The BCMA brings together the museums, art galleries, historic sites, cultural and science centres of the province for shared problem-solving, the interchange of ideas and institutional and personal advancement. Their web sites includes many online galleries as well, including the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan
Bosnia & Herzegovina Pavilion at XIX Triennale di Milano Bosnia & Herzegovina Pavilion at XIX Triennale di Milano. Pages in Italian, English and Bosniac.
Lili Brochetain Collection Russian Non-Conformist Art of the 60s-80s.
Canadian Wildlife and Wilderness Art Museum A collection of the worlds best wildlife and wilderness Art for the enjoyment of some of our cyber-friends. (English)
Copenhagen Art Museum, Fluxus, Net-book Fluxus archive from Copenhagen Museum of Art, Net-book catalogue with marginal litterature in a.o. languages.
Salvador Dali Museum The St. Petersburg Salvador Dali Museum has one of the finest collections of the Master's works availavle. Take this virtual tour of the museum and get the feel of what Dali is about. [Unofficial site]
Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, Texas, USA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center Past and present exhibitions showing at the museum, as well as general museum information. [Wellesley, MA]
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park is a museum of American contemporary and modern art with a special emphasis on the works of living New England artists. The museum features a 35 acre Sculpture Park of modern and contemporary American public works. The DeCordova site provides updated information and images from current exhibitions, a cybertour of its Sculpture Park, an on-line school catalogue, and an art chat room. The site is fast and easy to download. It might be the most sculpture intensive on the Net (over 60 images so far of outdoor works). (English)
Decouverte d'une grotte ornee paleolithique a Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardeche) Ancient French Cave Paintings (Primarily in French, some english)
The Detroit Institute of Arts Visitors to the Detroit Institute of Arts Web site will find an ever-increasing number of images from each of our galleries, as well as information and images from our current and future exhibitions. The DIA event and educational schedules are online, as well as a complete section on the current Detroit Film Theatre season. In addition, the site provides information on hours & parking, membership, the DIA research library, highlights from the museum shop, the online staff directory, and links to other museums.
Digital Daguerreian Archive Digital Daguerreian Archive Project home page. The goal of this project is to make available texts from the early days of photography in electronic form. The initial focus is on the Daguerreian period (1839-1860). Also, the Daguerreian Society, a non-profit organization to promote the study of Daguerreotypes and their history.
The DIVA project (Digital Images for the Visual Arts). DIVA has over 400 images, mostly of Australian art and architecture, as well as text information about the Monash University Art Collection, Studying the Visual Arts at Monash, and Art Museums and Galleries in Melbourne.
City of Elmhurst Art MuseumThe Elmhurst Art Museum is a cultural facility created for the people of Elmhurst and surrounding communities. As a non-profit corporation, it provides resources which encourage an understanding and appreciation of the visual arts. The Museum is known for its welcoming friendly atmosphere where art can be viewed, studied, created and appreciated by all.
Le siecle des lumieres dans la peinture des musees de France An English Version of The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums is also available.
The Exploratorium Mostly known for its science exhibits they host a visiting artist program designed to combine art and science.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has over 65,000 images online, the largest searchable imagebase of art online in the world. Utilized by artists, educators and art lovers, this internationally recognized website should not be missed. Subscribe to the free online newsletter featuring site updates and information as well as a featured image every issue! (English)
The Finnish National Gallery You can learn about the Gallery's past and present, and also visit the collections at its three specialist museums - the Museum of Foreign Art, Sinebrychoff, the Museum of Finnish Art, Ateneum and the Museum of Contemporary Art - which covers a period of eight centuries. Children can take their own special routes through the Ateneum. We provide this service in English, Swedish and Finnish.
The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art Contemporary Art Museum dedicated to Spain and Latin America including non-Spanish speaking countries (Brazil and Haiti). 11 exhibits per year. (English/Spanish)
The Getty Art History Information Program Includes searchable databases of art historical and architectural history.
Glenbow Glenbow's Art Collection is comprised of all forms of fine arts, including oil paintings, works on paper (watercolours, prints and drawings), photographs, sculptures as well as contemporary works of various media. Focusing on western Canada, the collection covers the spectrum from nineteenth century historical paintings to contemporary works. (English)
List of Musems in Greece Includes a directory of Art Museums and Galleries
Museums Haandbogen All museums in Denmark. About 800 with 450 pictures. (In Danish)
Harmony and Proportion The relationship between Sound and Space, Music and Design, as investigated by Pythagoras, Plato, and later Alberti and Palladio. Contains some sound files for interactive illustration.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Each year, over 13,000 students, faculty, and scholars from around the world use the Ransom Center's collections. Researchers pursue work on a wide range of topics such as surrealist photography, women editors of early 20th-century literary magazines, avant-garde theater design, modern French musical composition, the art of caricature, censorship in Hollywood, contemporary African novelists, and 18th-century English periodical literature. Approximately 100 books and dissertations as well as numerous articles are published each year by scholars using the Center's collections. (English)
Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation We endeavour to provide a range of current information useful to conservators, curators and anyone else concerned with the care of heritage material, sites and structures. Our ultimate hope is that it will benefit our material cultural heritage no matter whether held in private hands or in public collections.
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt The Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt is one of the oldest public museums in Germany, with departments of Art (paintings, drawings, sculptures), Arts and Crafts (esp. medieval ivory work and art nouveau), and Natural History (geology-palaeontology, mineralogy and zoology). The Museum comprises visual arts from the greek-roman period to the present time and the world's largest Joseph Beuys Complex. At the moment, the pages are only available in German, but they include many pictures.
The High Museum of Art "Located in Atlanta, [Georgia, USA] the museum tour includes images of contemporary art; 19th and 20th century furniture; American and European painting; African art; folk art, and photography. Information about the High Museum's films, lectures, and Special Exhibitions is also on the tour."
A History of Photography A hypertext history of photography from the earliest times up to the 1920s, covering all the significant processes and people involved. (English)
United States Holocaust Research Institute The United States Holocaust Research Institute is the scholarly division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Its mission is to serve as an international resource for the development of research on the Holocaust and related issues, including those of contemporary significance. Includes a photographic, film and video archive.
Henie Onstad Art CentreHenie Onstad Art Centre has one of the largest collections of international contemporary art in Norway. Its permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Beuys, Vasarely, the COBRA artists and Warhol.
Hunstville Museum
of Art
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
Institute of Contemporary Arts The ICA in London's web presence. We hope to represent the full richness of our programme as well as offer an opportunity to those not in London to enjoy some of this programme. We specialise in exhibiting contemporary visual arts, performance art, cultural discourse and criticism, cinema and video. there is also a substantial archive of video and audio recordings which can be browsed on the web site
International Children's Art Museum Home Page for the International Children's Art Museum, a San Francisco which features artwork from children around the world. This site has information about the museum and its programs. It also features an online gallery with exhibitions from the museums permanent collection.
International Directory of Art Libraries The IFLA Section of Art Libraries international Directory of Art Libraries is presented as a finding aid to over 3,000 libraries with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archeology worldwide.
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology home page From the University of Memphis. Includes an Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit
Frida Kahlo This page features works by Kahlo, and information about her life.
La Trobe University Art Museum(3/22/94) Presently showing the work of Australian Artist Clifton Pugh. Glenn College, Melbourne, Australia
LASCAUX
Still images from the fine art virtual reality museum installation,
LASCAUX are shown. A short text description is also provided.
LASCAUX premiered in September, 1995 at the Kwang-ju International Biennale
in Korea, and simultaneously in Paris, France at the Galerie Le Monde de
l'Art in the exhibition "Voyages Virtuels". LASCAUX will have
its American premiere April 12 - June 9, 1996, at the Contemporary Art Center
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Max Liebermann Catalogue raisonne Matthias Eberele who is working at a catalogue raisonne of the oil paintings of the german impressionist Max Liebermann (1847-1935) is looking for the whereabouts of a number of portraits by Liebermann. Within this the project the internet is tried to be used as a media to get any information about the paintings.
Live Art Archive The Live Art / Performance Art Archive Database is based at The Nottingham Trent University, England and resulted from a commission initiated by the Arts Council of England in 1994 to collate and list extant materials associated with Live Art / Performance Art, primarily within the UK. The Archive broadly embraces ephemeral, time-based visual and performing arts events that include a human presence and broaden, challenge or question traditional views of the arts.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Large LA museum. Large perment colection, also hosts many touring exhibits.
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Madison Art Center The Madison Art Center, a museum of modern and contemporary art, is now on the Web. The Art Center's page offers images and information on current exhibitions and education programs, along with a detailed schedule of upcoming exhibitions and events. Visitors can also view unique items available from the museum's Gallery Shop.
Mattress Factory An electronic archive of Installation & Performance Art at the Mattress Factory since 1982 and a behind-the-scenes look at the current exhibition of this Research & Development Lab for artists.
Media Centre of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal Provides information about the Media Centres collections, services, research and staff. Also offers a vast collection of links to contemporary art and culture resources available on the Internet. This directory is organized by subject categories, such as: Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions, Events, Media, Art History, Art Libraries, other specialized directory, etc. (French/English)
The Menil Collection The Menil Collection museum was inaugurated in 1987 to house, conserve, and exhibit the permanent collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Its concentrations include art from antiquity, the Byzantine world, tribal cultures, and the twentieth century.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its collections include more than two million works of art -- several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time -- spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts "The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is the most comprehensive fine arts museum in the upper midwest. The permanent collection includes outstanding works in seven curatorial areas with 85,000 objects spanning 4,000 years. This site contains extensive information about the museum including previews of the galleries and a large catalog of curriculum materials".
Museum of Arts and Crafts Courtesy of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers and of the Musee des arts et metiers. Paris, France
Museum of Bad Art The Museum of Bad Art is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory.
Monka Antiques, Art & Preservation Educational and news feature articles written by prominent experts in the fields of antiques, fine art and historic preservation of antiques, art and architecture. For example, "Thirteen Watercolorists of California". Read how the depression of the 1930s forced visual fine artists to commercial art. Or, "Texas Paintings: 1850-1950". Fine art available for purchase, ads and gallery home pages also included.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is the oldest fine arts museum in the State of Alabama. The Museum holds over 2800 works of art in its collection, including paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings, photographs, pieces of sculpture and decorative arts. (English)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Online information and virtual exhibits.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston site includes visuals and information on the permanent collection, travelling exhibitions, events and educational programs.
The Museum of Modern Art: Electronic Projects
Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design
Annette Messager [October 12, 1995 - January 16, 1996]
Explore the French artist's use of traditional and nontraditional materials
to explore the boundaries of art making and social relationships.
Musem Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (German and English)
The National Art Library, London is a major research library for the Fine and Decorative Arts. Public online catalogue at telnet://nal.vam.ac.uk. NAL is also the curatorial department for the art, crafts and design of the book within the Victoria and Albert Museum.
National Museum of African Art
National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada is the permanent home of Canada's exceptional national art collection. Le MusÈe des beaux-arts du Canada abrite en permanence l'exceptionnelle collection nationale d'oeuvres d'art du Canada.
National Museum of Slovenia The National Museum is the central museum institution of Slovenia, located in the capital city of Ljubljana. It has extensive departments of Archaeology, History and Applied Arts, and Drawings and Graphics, as well as a major Numismatic Cabinet and a library with over 150,000 volumes. The museum regularly publishes a journal and three serials, the latter, and particularly those concerned with archaeology and numismatics, with prominent international reputations.
National Museum of Women in the Arts Dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists, this site showcases the museum with a images from the permanent collection, a video tour, artist profiles, and more.
The Perseus Project The Perseus Project is a collaborative academic publication compiled
by art historians, philologists, and archaeologists for teaching and research.
It contains textual and visual materials for the study of ancient Greek
civilization, and is published on CD-ROM, videodisk, and now on the World-Wide
Web. Over 70 museums have participated in building the Perseus art catalogs.
So far, the Perseus web site contains the full texts of the Perseus art
catalogs, documenting over 2,300 Greek vases, coins, and sculptures. About
13,800 photographs of vases, coins, architecture and sites are available
now, and, as museums agree to allow it, more photographs will be published
on-line. Perseus also contains a texts archive, with the works of over 30
ancient Greek authors, in Greek and in English translation; morphological
databases and lexica; a browser which locates objects by attributes and
keywords; and a searchable index to the entire site.
Philadelphia Museum of Art Tour several of the museum's galleries, and visit the nineteenth annual Philadelphia Museum of Art craft Show
Photo Perspectives A Museum for the Photographic Examination of Contemporary Society and Culture.
Portinari Project Collection This site contains a sample of the material collected by the Portinari Project,documenting the work, life and times of Candido Portinari, one of the foremost brazilian painters. What is unique about this site is its navigational and interface design.
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic A scholarly archive of critical reception of the Pre-Raphaelites as both painters and poets, to cover the period between 1849-1900.
Queer Arts Resource Queer Arts Resource is a nonprofit web-based forum for the display and discussion of queer content in the visual arts. The site features curated gallery exhibitions, critical essays, lists of events and exhibitions and a bookshop. Recently awarded 4 stars (highest rating) by Excite. (English)
Reading Public Museum The Reading Public Museum, Planetarium and Arboretum have been serving the Reading Community for over 70 years. The museum has one of the largest permanent collections of any regional museum in the US.
Reconstruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the Milan International Exposition. In English, Italian and Bosnian.
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Rossetti Archive is a hypermedia environment for studying the works of the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882).
Royal Ontario Museum Large museum with Greek, Roman and Far Eastern art, archaeology and natural sciences collection, Native ethnology and natural history collections. Virtual exhibits including educational activities, shopping and online artifact identification. (English, French)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Online Museum of Singapore Art and History
The Smithsonian Institution Including the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of American Art, the National Air and Space Museum, the Sackler Gallery, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History and more.
Snite Museum of Art The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. This site includes visitor information for the Snite Museum, a listing of exhibits for the coming year, and samples from its collection of over fifteen thousand works of fine art.
Spencer Museum Printroom Prints, drawings and illustrated books at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Our images are arranged in thematic exhibtions.
Torrione Castle The Torrione Castle is a unique example of a northern Italian private fortress surviving from the Middle Ages with a Dungeon built before 1147 by a great grandson of the founder of the Vialardi family
Treasures of the Czars From the Florida International Museum.
William Turner A collection of information on Turner.
Ukiyo-E Museum (Japanese and English)
University of Arizona Museums and Galleries
University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive The visual arts center of the University of California at Berkeley, the UAM/PFA is noted for its thought-provoking exhibitions of both art and film. The museum website contains online versions of current and former exhibitions and exhibition information including online catalogs with images and audio artist interviews, a database of over 12,000 film notes on world cinema, searchable art and film collection guides, an interactive multime dia guide to modern art for kids and more.
Photo Archives of the University of Utah Marriott Library
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art The fine arts museum of the University of Chicago.
UIUC Krannert Art Museum A Guide to the museum, pictures of parts of the collection, and more. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota, USA
University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Art and Archaelogy
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology The Publications of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Valcamonica Rock Art Prehistoric Rock Art from Valcamonica (Alps) as archaeology and as interpretation. (English,Italian)
Varo Registry of Women Artists The Varo Registry is a rapidly-growing collection of images by women artists. So far, 17 artists and 200 images are on-line, with many more on the way. The Varo also provides a database, listservs for discussion, and more.
The Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest museum of the decorative arts in the world. Today the beautiful Victorian and Edwardian buildings house 145 galleries containing some of the world's greatest collections of sculpture, furniture, fashion and textiles, paintings, silver, glass, ceramics, jewellery, books, prints and photographs.
Virginia Discovery Museum Cultivates the curiosity and imagination of children and adults through hands-on exhibits related to arts, humanities and sciences.
Videomuseum "Videomuseum is a french non-profit organization managing a very extensive project aiming at the computer cataloguing of all the arts works of the 20th century in all the french public museums and collections."
Video On Line: Art and Museum Collection of links,mirrors, and exhibitions, including The Hammer Manuscript and RADAR.
Virtual Museum of Fine Arts First Spanish Virtual Museum of Fine Arts Artist from 16th Century to nowadays. Growing weekly. Ribalta, Porcar, Ripolles, Sese... (Language: Spanish/Catalan/English)
Walker Art Center On the cutting edge of Modern Art.
Warhol Museum "The Andy Warhol Museum is essential to the understanding of the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. It is also a primary resource for any one who wishes to gain insights into contemporary art and popular culture."
WebMuseum Includes a small tour of Paris, the Famous Paintings collection, and an exhibit of Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Women Artists Archive The Women Artists Archive contains exhibits of contemporary women artists as well as archives of material concerning women artists in history. The printed material ranges from published articles, personal correspondence, museum photographs of artwork, exhibition notices, brochures, and unpub