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North American Alphabetical Links           

A

Allen Memorial Art Museum

Oberlin College Art Museum

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]

ANU Art History Server

There is quite a bit at this site, including a database of information on classical and contemporary architecture. [Australian National University, Canberra, Australia]

 

Museum of theatre and fashion designs from the father of art deco, Erte (1892-1990)

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)

B

The Bayly Museum

The Digital Image Center includes two exhibits from the Bayly Museum at the University of Virginia.

Bilbao

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.

C

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. Gopher also available.

Cézanne 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)

D

 

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.

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) Denver Art Museum, Colorado.

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 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.

E

F

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.

G

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

H

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 Centre

Henie 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.

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J. Paul Getty Museum  Los Angeles, California.

K

L

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

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

 

M

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.

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 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 Contemporary Ideas

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.

 

 

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Musem Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

(German and English)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City. See current exhibitions and the permanent

N

National Endowment For the Arts

National Gallery of Canada

The National Gallery of Canada is the permanent home of Canada's exceptional national art collection. Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada abrite en permanence l'exceptionnelle collection nationale d'oeuvres d'art du Canada.

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.

P

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.

 

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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)

   R

 

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)

S

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 

Seattle Art Museum, Washington.

 

 

Smithsonian

 

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.

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California. Includes a large image database.

 

T

 

From the Florida International Museum.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago Museum, Illinois.
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  The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti.

 

 

U

Ukiyo-E Museum

(Japanese and English)

University of Arizona Museums and Galleries

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

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]

 

 

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

The Publications of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.

USASail

V

Valcamonica Rock Art

Prehistoric Rock Art from Valcamonica (Alps) as archaeology and as interpretation. (English,Italian)

 

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.

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.

W

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.

 

International Links

 

• Australia:
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
• Canada:
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec.
• Finland: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In Finnish, English and Swedish.)
• France:
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (In French and English.) National Museum of Modern Art.
  • Musée du Louvre, Paris. (In French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world. See also Louvre.edu (in French), virtual visit.
  • Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)
• Germany:
  • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. (In German.)
  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. (In German.)
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art.
• Ireland: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
• Italy: Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (In Italian and English.) Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).
• Japan:
  • National Museum of Art, Osaka.
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. (In Japanese and English.)
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
  • National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. (Also in Japanese.)
• Korea: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.
• Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (In English, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Spanish.)
• Russia:
  • Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
• Spain:
  • Museo del Prado, Madrid. (In Spanish and.)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.
• UK:

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  • Sothebys
  • The National Gallery, London.
  • Tate Gallery, London / Liverpool / St. Ives.

     

    • Australia:
      • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
      • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
    • Canada:
      • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
      • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
      • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec.
    • Finland: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In Finnish, English and Swedish.)
    • France:
      • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (In French and English.) National Museum of Modern Art.
      • Musée du Louvre, Paris. (In French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world. See also Louvre.edu (in French), virtual visit.
      • Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)
    • Germany:
      • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. (In German.)
      • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. (In German.)
    • Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art.
    • Ireland: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
    • Italy: Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (In Italian and English.) Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).
    • Japan:
      • National Museum of Art, Osaka.
      • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. (In Japanese and English.)
      • National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
      • National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. (Also in Japanese.)
    • Korea: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.
    • Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (In English, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Spanish.)
    • Russia:
      • Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
    • Spain:
      • Museo del Prado, Madrid. (In Spanish and .)
      • Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.
    • UK:
      • The National Gallery, London.
      • Tate Gallery, London / Liverpool / St. Ives.
      • National Portrait Gallery, London.
      • Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.
      • National Galleries of Scotland.

  • National Portrait Gallery, London.

  • Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.

  • National Galleries of Scotland.