Links

National Museums

• Metropolitan Museum - our favorite site
• The National Gallery of Fine Art - a must see
• The Smithsonian - plan on spending a lot of time here
• The Los Angeles County Museum - site needs work, but worth exploring
• The Whitney Museum
• California Museum of Photography
• North Carolina Museum of Art
• Dallas Museum of Art
• The Getty - visually exciting and informative
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• MIT Museum
• Peabody Essex Museum - well-developed site
• National Museum of African Art
• The National Portrait Gallery
• Museum of Fine Art, Boston
• Columbia Museum of Art
• MOMA
• The Guggenheim
• The Fogg Art Museum
• National Museum of American Art
• The Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
• Web Gallery - hosts 3500+ digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures 
• Groves Dictionary of Art - searchable database of art related materials
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Tyler Museum of Art

International Museums

• Musée d'Orsay
• The Louvre
• Museo dell 'Immagine Fotofrafica edelle Arti Visuali
• Museum Moderner Stiftung Ludwig Kunst Wien - located in the baroque Palais Liechtenstein
• Royal Holloway Art Collection - University of London
• Vatican Museums
• Montreal Museum of Fine Art
• Tokugawa Art Museum
• Frida Kahlo - an entire site devoted to the artist
• SpanishArts.com
• Pierre Gianadda Foundation - Museum in Switzerland
• Ashmolean Museum - Museum of Art & Archaeology in Oxford, UK

Other Resources

• Literature, Arts and Medicine Database - extensive database of artists and works
• Art History Resources on the Web, Chris Witcombe - list of resources from Sweet Briar College

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