History of Art Links - A-Z

ADAM: Resources on the Internet in art, architecture, design and media.

Akron Art Museum: The Akron Art Museum has an exhibition program of regional, national and international interest including comprehensive exhibitions as well as smaller, diverse shows organized by the staff; exhibitions are also obtained from distinguished museum and private collections throughout the nation. In addition to temporary exhibitions, selections from the museum's collection of over 3,000 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper are always on view.

Andy Warhol Museum: The Andy Warhol Museum features extensive permanent collections of art and archives. Temporary exhibitions, which may include the work of other artists, are presented on a regular basis. The Andy Warhol Museum is essential to the understanding one of the most influential American artists of the second half of the 20th century. It is also a primary resource for anyone who wishes to gain insights into contemporary art and popular culture.

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria: The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is one of Canada's finest art museums with a permanent collection of 15,000 objets d'art. The collection features art from Asia, Europe and North America with primary emphasis placed on Canada and Japan.

Art Institute of Chicago: The museum houses more than 300,000 works of art within its 10 curatorial departments. Among its great treasures are the legendary masterpieces A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte­1884 by Georges Seurat, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, and 33 paintings by Claude Monet.

Australian National University Museum: This server, in the Department of Art History at the Australian National University, offers access to around 70,000 images of Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin- some 23Gb of data - all concerned in some way with the history of art and architecture, and the great majority unavailable elsewhere on the Web.

Baltimore Museum of Art: features an extraordinary permanent collection and ever-changing exhibitions, plus programs and performances for all ages.

Basel Museum of Fine Arts: housing the world's oldest public art collection.

Birmingham Museum of Art: The Birmingham Museum of Art is the largest municipal art museum in the US Southeast. It has a nationally-recognized permanent collection of over 17,000 works of art dating from 3000 B.C. to the present. The collections include African, American, Asian, European, Precolumbian, Native American and Contemporary art.

Brooklyn Museum of Art: collection includes art of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Ancient Egypt, and the Americas; painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.

Carnegie Museum of Art: collections and exhibitions emphasizing 19th- and 20th-century painting, sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, prints and video.

Chrysler Museum: collection of 30,000 objects spans almost 4,000 years of art history.

Cincinnati Art Museum: features a virtual tour of museum collections, general museum information, children's activities, art of the month, and much more.

Cleveland Museum of Art The collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranges over 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present, and includes masterpieces from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Contemporary Arts Museum: The Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM) is a non-profit institution with a mission to provide a forum for art with an emphasis on the visual arts of the present and recent past; to document new directions in art through changing exhibitions and publications; to engage the public in a lively dialogue with today's art; and to encourage a greater understanding of contemporary art through educational programs. CAM is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the United States.

Dallas Museum of Art: From Europe and the Americas. From Africa and Asia. The collections of the Dallas Museum of Art are as diverse as the interests of the community the Museum serves. Since its founding in 1903, the DMA has worked to build a permanent collection of world scope and importance. With major holdings in ancient American, African, Indonesian, and contemporary art, as well as American decorative arts, the Museum serves as a cultural center for the Dallas/Fort Worth area of North Texas

Detroit Institute of Arts: the fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works. Within its more than one hundred galleries are huge collections of paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts.

Durban Art Gallery: The Durban Art Gallery collections include everything from current and historical art and artifacts of KwaZulu-Natal to English masterpieces, from anonymous carvings, clay pots and beadwork to the works of celebrated South African artists like Andrew Verster and Penny Siopis.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Links to all of San Francisco's major fine art galleries.

Finnish National Gallery: 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 cover a period of eight centuries.

Galleria degli Uffizi: The Uffizi Gallery, founded in Florence in 1581, by the Medici family, is one of the oldest museums in the world. Many important works of Italian and other schools, dating from between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, are kept here, including the largest existing collection of Tuscan Renaissance paintings. The Web guide contains pictures, comments, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements and techniques.

GLAADH (Globalising Art, Architecture and Design History)

Le Louvre: Official Pages of the Louvre galleries

Guggenheim Museum: Links to the five world-reknowned Guggenheim museums: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

Hamburger Kunsthalle: Web version of the world famous gallery. Excellent online galleries of Old Masters, 19th Century Art, Classical Modernism and Contemporary Art

Harvard University Art Museums: Extensive collections of Rennaisance to contemporary art and other art resources.

Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam: located in the house where Rembrandt lived and worked from 1639 till 1658. The museum shows an almost complete collection of Rembrandt's etchings and prints.

Israel Museum: In Jerusalem. Founded in 1965 the museum has become the encyclopedic museum of the art and archeology of Israel. The web-site 'reflects some sense of the scope and quality of collections and exhibitions and also the beauty of our campus and the range of activities which take place'

Knoxville Museum of Art: Extensive online collections of modern American Art. Includes a virtual tour of the gallery.

Krannert Art Museum: The largest art museum in the state of Illinois outside Chicago. A significant part of the Museum's permanent collection of 9,000 works of art is displayed in 10 different galleries, ranging from the fourth millennium BC to the prsent. The contemporary collection includes paintings and sculptures by artists such as Gabriele Muenter, Max Beckman, Philip Guston, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.

La Mediatheque du Musee d'Art Contemporain: Site comprises two distinct sections: the Media Centre: which includes information on the collection, staff and services - as well as artists' biobiliographies, specialized thematic bibliographies and texts, all resulting from research conducted by the Media Centre team. The second section takes the form of a directory of sites bearing a relationship to contemporary art and culture. Selected site links are organized thematically, making them easy to find.

La Trobe University Art Museum: The La Trobe University Art Museum at La Trobe University in Australia hosts a number of online exhibitions throughout the year.

Le Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal Online version of the gallery, including Virtual Tours, special collections, past and present exhibitions and contact details

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents an international collection of art dating from prehistory to the present day. More than 100,000 objects constitute the museum's holdings. The permanent collections offer Greek and Roman art; European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century; American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from colonial times to the present; modern and contemporary art; pre-Colombian art; Egyptian, Islamic, and ancient West Asian Art; Far Eastern art; and Indian and Southeast Asian art.

Madison Art Center: The Madison Art Centre is committed to enhancing the appreciation and understanding of modern and contemporary art. Following the dramatic expansion of its facilities in 1980, the Art Centre has emerged as a leading force in the region for presenting the work of important new artists, and investigating major artistic directions of the 20th century. The museum additionally has a strong commitment to artists of the region.

Manchester City Art Galleries: Selections of works from the collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art: 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. This site is designed to give visitors an overview of the collections on display in the Museum's galleries.

Michelangelo Page: Excellent online gallery of images featuring many of Michelangelo Buonarroti's major works. In Italian.

Minnesota Museum of American Art: The Minnesota Museum of American Art serves the Upper Midwest with programs that use art as a tool to explore issues of personal identity and social concerns. The Museum's mission is to express through art the unfolding value of the American multi-cultural experience, encompassing a continuing goal to explore the many dimensions of American art and art history, and to look especially at those aspects that reaffirm that there is "unity in diversity". Throughout the years, the Museum's exhibitions have explored many areas of the American experience, ranging from American Indian fine arts to historical forces in photography; from contemporary crafts to American Impressionist painting. Social issues continue to be examined through the exhibitions in our galleries.

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, water-colours, drawings, photographs, pieces of sculpture and decorative arts. The Museum's permanent collection is complemented by temporary exhibitions which examine diverse facets of the art world.

Musee d'Orsay: A small collection of some of the museum's most famous works.

Museo del Prado: The Prado Museum has one of the biggest collections in the world of sculptures, drawings and other artistic treasures. The Museum, has important collections of drawings (more than five thousand), etchings (two thousand), coins and medals (close to one thousand) and almost two thousand pieces of sumptuary and decorative art. Sculpture in itself is represented by more than seven hundred pieces and by a slightly smaller number of sculptural fragments.

Museum of American Art: of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien: Austrian gallery of modern art which regularly presents exhibitions. Site is mostly in German.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: The MCA's Permanent Collection provides an historical context for examining continuing developments in contemporary art. The collection includes some 7,000 objects and features notable strengths in art made in Chicago, minimalism, postminimalism, conceptualism, surrealism, and artists' books. Among the artists whom the MCA has collected in depth are Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson. The collection also includes key works by Francis Bacon, Ann Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, René Magritte, Ed Paschke, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Andy Warhol.

Museum of European Art: The Museum of European Art was founded in the United States in co-operation with a number of prominent European artists, art collectors, and art museums. However, the Museum today presents a special collection of international art from all continents, including works by: Kurt Arentz, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Ernst Fuchs, Renate Stendar, Pierre Peyrolle, Henry Moore, Alessandra Della Valentina, Helga Tiemann, Alexander Kossuth, Andy Warhol, Jan Künster, Heinz Spilker, Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzu, Marco Bodenstein, Alexander Calder, Sam Francis, Margaret Stucki, ViviAnn Rose, Pat Roberts, Gredi Assa, and others.

National Archaeological Museum of Athens: The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the most important archaeological museum in Greece and one of the richest in the world concerning ancient Greek art. Its collections are representative of all the cultures that flourished in Greece. The museum contains collections of prehistoric items, sculpture, pottery and Ìinor art, Âronzes and Egyptian Art.

National Gallery (London), The: collection information and schedule of events.

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Ireland

National Gallery of Slovenia

National Gallery of Victoria

National Museum in Warsaw

National Museum of American Art: The National Museum of American Art is dedicated to the arts and artists of the United States from earliest colonial times to the present day by presenting collections, educational materials, and research resources, which reflect the diversity of the country's citizenry. Highly interactive, multimedia site.

Portland Art Museum: The Portland Art Museum's Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts houses over 22,000 works of art on paper, including prints, drawings and photographs, and is an invaluable resource for artists, curators, scholars and the general public. Includes a useful search facility.

Ringling Museum of Art: The Ringling Museum's collection includes over 500 years of art and is internationally recognized for its Baroque paintings. The Museum also contains significant holdings of works on paper, ancient and decorative arts. The 19th century is magnificently represented by artists such as Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Alfred Stevens, as well as by two interiors originally installed in the Caroline and John Jacob Astor IV Mansion in New York. The Museum actively collects 20th century and contemporary art and presents exciting temporary exhibitions in all of its collection areas on a regular basis.

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: Huge A-Z list of all Belgian Museums on the web

State Hermitage Museum: Put together throughout two and a half centuries, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century.

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art: The Stedelijk Museum is the most important museum of modern and contemporary art in The Netherlands. A lot of works are permanently on view from the Stedelijk Museum's famous collection of paintings and sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, graphic design, applied art and design. Additionally, there are always a number of temporary exhibitions on view.

Tate Gallery

Tate Modern

World Art Treasures: The principal purpose of World Art Treasures is "to promulgate the discovery and love of art. Thanks to the 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, all of them devoted to art, and including the main civilisations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, its purpose is to offer a different approach to art via the World Wide Web".

Yale University Art Gallery: Huge collection of art from pre-Christian to contemporary works. Online gallery is very dependent on images.