Art Museums
Guides and Directories
See Also: Art Resources, Periods and Movements
Fine Art Prints and Posters
View over 500,000 works of art including images from the masters in art history to popular movie and sports images, vintage advertising and more.
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MetMuseum.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, view upcoming events, exhibits, and the collection.
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Houses a collection comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century.
Seattle Art Museum
Online guide with visitor, exhibition, collection, and event information, includes activities and resources for teachers, kids, and art enthusiasts.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Over 45,000 paintings, sculptures, decorative objects, works on paper, and works from the collection of the Heinz Architectural Center.
Vatican Museums
View and read about the 500 year old art collections online.
Thinker.org
Website of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Comprised of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park.
MFA Boston
Museum with a collection of nearly 450,000 works and more than one million visitors each year. Exhibits art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs.
Smithsonian Institution
America's national educational facility with 19 museums, 9 research centers and over 140 affiliate museums around the world.
MOBA
Museum of Bad Art, dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.
Harvard University Art Museums
Includes the Fogg Art Museum, The Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museums, all in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Museum of International Folk Art
Over 125,000 objects from 100 nations in its collection, has the largest cross-cultural collection of folk art in the world.
OutsiderArt
The art of the insane, along with marginal, visionary, intuitive, and native art.
The Textile Museum
Dedicated to furthering the understanding of mankind's creative achievements in the textile arts.
The Israel Museum
Ancient and contemporary art from Jerusalem, Israel.
Hecht Museum
Exhibits international art and archaeology. Various artistic movements are represented, with the emphasis on Impressionism and the Jewish School of Paris.
MUVA Virtual Museum of Arts
Devoted to Uruguayan and Latin American art.
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Site offers information on the Delaware museum, the decorative arts and the historic houses of Odessa, which are owned by Winterthur.
Rosenbach Museum and Library
Encompasses the collections of the Rosenbach brothers, including decorative arts and rare books and manuscripts.
William Morris Gallery
The only museum devoted to the art of England's best known designer includes internationally known collections illustrating Morris's life, work and influence.
Sackler Museums
Directory of museums which hold the collections of publisher and art collector Dr. Arthur M. Sackler.
The Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum
Features the Hapsburgs Collection of Art, including paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. Artists include Lipizzaner, Rubens, and Velazquez.
Guggenheim Museum
Modern and contemporary international art.
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
Provides information on current and upcoming art, film and media, and online exhibitions, highlights from a collection of modern and contemporary art, and listings of education and family programs open to the public.
The Andy Warhol Museum
Museum documenting the works of one of the most influential American artists of the second half of the 20th century.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
A museum located in Washington DC dedicated to the exhibition of women artists of all periods and nationalities.
Corning Museum of Glass
Collection of over 45,000 historical and art glass objects, including glass of the Romans, the Islamic World, Europe, America, and more.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis museum with a permanent collection of around one hundred thousand objects as well as online collections, exhibitions, education and resources.
Walker Art Center
Center for creative expression, engages and invites us to examine the things that inspire and shape our communities and cultures.
Folger Shakespeare Library
World class research center on Shakespeare and the entire early modern age in the West. Collection includes over 256,000 books, 60,000 manuscripts, plus paintings, drawings, and other works.
Museo Andres Blaisten
One of the most comprehensive collections of modern and contemporary Hispanic painting and modern art.
Site languages: Spanish and English
National Museum of the American Indian
Thousands of Native North American works from the Northwest Coast, the Plains, and the Southwest.
National Postal Museum
Explores America's postal history from colonial times to the present.
Guides and Directories
Art Museums of the World
Art museums listed by topic from MuseumStuff.
Art Museums Worldwide
Guide to fine art museums on the internet from Artcyclopdia.
Mother: Museums
Links to museums and organizations around the world.
MuseumLink
Links to official museum sites worldwide.
24 Hour Musuem
A searchable database of over 3,000 museums, galleries, exhibitions and cultural institutions, also offers daily arts news and reviews.
Art Guide
Art lover's guide to Britain and Ireland.
ArtSource Museums
Directory of art museums on the web.
MoOM: The Museum of Online Museums
Features online collections and exhibits from classic art and architecture, to the not so classic and bizarre.
