The National Gallery of Art: Houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. Records on all of the more than 110,000 objects and images of more than 6,000 objects in the collection are available online. Search the entire collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria.
Tate Gallery: Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art. All works can be found on this site, each with its own information page. Alphabetical listing of all artists in the CollectionThe Getty: European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
A selection from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. The Getty Center presents the Getty's collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views.LACMA: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United States. Its collection of approximately 100,000 works from around the world spans the history of art from ancient times to the present. Through its far-reaching collections, the museum is both a resource to and a reflection of the many cultural communities and heritages in Southern California. The permanent collection encompasses three Centers and numerous departments. The three Centers are — Center for Art of the Americas: including Art of the United States, Latin American Art, and Art of the Ancient Americas — Center for Asian Art: including Chinese Art, Korean Art, Japanese Art, South and Southeast Asian Art and Islamic Art — Center for European Art: including Ancient Greek and Roman Art, European Painting, European Sculpture, German Expressionist Studies. In addition, there are departments of African Art; Contemporary Art; Egyptian Art; Modern Art; Photography; Costume and Textiles; Prints and Drawings and Decorative Arts.
Brooklyn Museum: The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Only a 30-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan, with its own newly renovated subway station, the Museum is part of a complex of nineteenth-century parks and gardens that also includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Prospect Park Zoo.
The Art Institue of Chicago Museum It is true that art museums are about the stubborn, matter-of-factness of things: the works of art. But access to the Art Institute’s collection has always been enhanced by words and reproduced images. With the launch of our redesigned Web site, we acknowledge the importance of digitized access to the works of art. Visit to learn about the character and structure of our collection and our educational programs and exhibitions. You will also learn how to visit and contact us easily. I very much look forward to you visiting the museum.
Muesum of Bad Art: The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms! BRIGHT COLORS, DARK EMOTIONS On a cool, windy August night, Scott Wilson, MOBA curator, came upon a discovery that would change his life and the future of his museum. "It was big, I just didn't know how big," said Wilson, recalling the moment. He ordered the car to stop, "Backup" he screamed. As he leapt from the car, the top-most painting blew from the pile. The one below was even worse! One, two...seven, eight... each one worse than the last. "What is it? Who did them?" called a voice from the car. "It's unknown," Scott replied. "It's Unknown."
The National Museum of Women in the Arts: A permanent collection comprised of more than 3,000 works provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly. The work in the collection represents a wide range of styles and media—from the Renaissance paintings of Elisabetta Sirani to modern photographs by Barbara Morgan to Louise Nevelson's contemporary sculptures. NMWA also has several important special collections, including silver by 18th and 19th-century Irish and English women silversmiths. If you are looking for a specific artist, try the advanced search.Milwaukee Art Museum: With a history dating back to 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum's far-reaching Collection includes nearly 20,000 works from antiquity to the present. The Museum's permanent holdings include important collections of Old Masters and 19th-and 20th-century art. The Museum's collections of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960 are among the nation's finest. Important artists represented include Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Jóan Miro, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober and Andy Warhol. In 2001, the Museum completely renovated and remodeled its Collection galleries. The Museum's Collection is exhibited in brighter, larger and more spacious galleries, which are primarily organized chronologically, making it easy for visitors to navigate through art, history and the Museum.
Saint Luis Art Museum: The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879 and was then called the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University. The Museum was originally located in downtown St. Louis but relocated to our current home in Forest Park following the 1904 World's Fair. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, the Museum's Beaux-Arts style building bears the inscription Dedicated to Art and Free to All. The Museum's long-standing commitment to free admission makes it possible for everyone to have the opportunity to visit our galleries as often as they like throughout the year. Through generations of public support and private benefaction, the Museum has assembled one of the finest comprehensive art collections in the country. With a per-capita attendance that is consistently among the highest of our nation's art museums, we are a national leader in making our collections and programs available to a broad public audience.
Peabody Essex Museum: The Peabody Essex Museum’s collections, 2.4 million works of art, architecture, and culture, are singular among American museums. Many of the museum’s collections are considered to be among the finest in the nation, yet several have never been publicly displayed at any time since the Museum’s founding in 1799. The Peabody Essex Museum also offers photographic images of objects in its ten curatorial departments, the Phillips Library, and its extensive photographic archive.
American Visionary Art Museum: Critically acclaimed as an "architectural jewel," the 35,000-square-foot main building combines an elliptical, three-story, historic industrial building with extensive new architecture to contain six galleries, filled with art exploring one central exhibition theme at a time. The central stairway, balustrade and garden gates were beautifully hand cast by metal artist, David Hess, and have been described as "alone worth the price of admission."
What is visionary art? Like love, you know it when you see it. But here's the longer definition, straight out of our Mission Statement: "Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself." In short, visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices of the soul, and often may not even be thought of as 'art' by its creator.
National Portrait Gallery: After an extensive renovation of the historic Patent Office Building, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery reopened to the public on July 1, 2006. The National Portrait Gallery, with its collection of nearly 20,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs, portrays men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development and culture of the people of the United States.The Toledo Museum of Art: A collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranks among the finest in the United States. In our more than 35 galleries, Sculpture Garden, and new Glass Pavilion, discover important, popular, and outstanding works of art, including paintings and sculptures by Cezanne, Cole, Degas, Gainsborough, Holbein, Kiefer, Miro, Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Rubens, and van Gogh; masterworks from antiquity and Asia; decorative arts; and highlights from our renowned glass collection.
Museum of Modern Art: From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents. The Museum's Library contains 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and the Museum Archives holds approximately 2,500 linear feet of historical documentation and a photographic archive of tens of thousands of photographs, including installation views of exhibitions and images of the Museum's building and grounds. You can search the entire collection here.
The Guggenheium: The Guggenheim's selection of images is rich in depth and visually impressive. It includes superior photographs of our premiere art collection; installation images of our award-winning exhibitions; and images of our iconic architecture around the world, including original historical photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright and the construction of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
SFMOMA: The San Francisco Museum of Modern ARt - one of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art, SFMOMA has had an active Web presence for ten years. During this period SFMOMA has redesigned their site twice, always with the idea that a museum such as ours should continually strive to improve the ways in which it serves a diverse public. And, as their collective understanding of emerging digital technologies has increased, SFMOMA uses the Web to explore our understanding of the museum itself.
Whitney Artport : Artport is the Whitney Museum's portal to net art and digital arts, and an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects. The site consists of five major areas: 1) The archive of "gate pages," which function as portals to net artists' works. Each month, an artist is invited to present their work in the form of a gate page with links to the artist's site and most important projects. 2) The "commissions" area, which presents original net art projects commissioned by the Whitney Museum. 3) The "exhibitions" space, which provides access to and information about current and past net art and digital arts exhibitions at the Whitney. 4) The "resources" archive, which links to galleries, networks and museums on the Web; past net art exhibitions at venues world-wide; Web publications relating to net art and digital arts; as well as new media festivals. This archive is constantly evolving as new organizations and resources are added. 5) The "collection" area, which archives the works of net art and digital art in the Whitney Museum's holdings.
The Warhol Collections (Online): Over the course of his career, Andy Warhol transformed contemporary art. Employing mass-production techniques to create works, Warhol challenged preconceived notions about the nature of art and erased traditional distinctions between fine art and popular culture. The Andy Warhol Museum's permanent collection is comprised of more than 12,000 works of art by Warhol including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, film, videotapes, and an extensive archives that consists of ephemera, records, source material for works of art, and other documents of the artist's life. Together, the art and archives make The Andy Warhol Museum the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the world.
The Museum preserves, exhibits, and interprets the collection, as well as providing the public with access to its unprecedented resources. The collection is not only a resource for research and study, but a basis for creative inspiration, representing a link between the past and the future, culture and the artistic process.