Art Museums
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View paintings from a variety of painters of around the world.
Canada's most progressive art museum.
Art Guide: The Art Lover's Guide to Britain and Ireland.
"Art Guide is organized by artist, by museum, and geographically. The database currently contains: more than 1,900 named artists, more than 650 museums, more than 4,500 individual listings, comprehensive exhibitions listings."--Source.
One of the world's largest art museums.
"Art links is a comprehensive index of art sites on the Internet."--Source. You can find: Artists, Galleries and Exhibits, Organizations and Businesses, Museums, Mailing Lists, Indices, Search Engines, Resources, Usenet, Applications and Other.
"The official exhibition calendar of the world's leading art museums."--Source.
Current and upcoming exhibitions in that museum located in Seattle.
Includes a collection of pictures from the cliffs of Kaho'olawe and several native objects depicting the Papua New Guinea culture.
"Is one of the largest art institutions in the United States, with collections in Ancient Egyptian art and American Painting & Sculpture that are considered among the world's finest. One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects and represents almost every culture."--Source.
Contains objects dating back to the 13th century.
The 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 paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts that reveal the scope and depth of human experience, imagination and emotion."--Source.
"The Exploratorium is a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art, and human perception."--Source.
"The oldest comprehensive museum in the Southwest United States. You're invited to come see its treasures - art of world cultures from antiquity to the present."--Source.
All about this famous museum in Paris.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Offers a variety of educational experiences with images of works of art and detailed descriptions of educational opportunities at The Metropolitan Museum of Art."--Source.
Home page of New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
"European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper are displayed in the permanent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from countries and cultures throughout the world are presented on a regular basis."--Source.
Hosts the world's largest art collection of Canadian Art.
National Museum of American Art.
"Home of the largest collection of American art in the world. Its holdings—over 37,500 works—represent the most inclusive collection of American art of any general museum today, reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious diversity."--Source.
"Our purpose is to exhibit and study aesthetically or historically significant information, knowledge and artifacts including but not limited to objects of art, numismatics and archaeology; to acquire art and numismatic materials."--Source.
Contains artwork from American, African, Asian, and Native American cultures.
The Victoria and Albert Museum.
"The V&A in London is the world's finest museum of the decorative arts...The magnificent building is home to 145 galleries, including the national collections of sculpture, furniture, fashion and textiles, paintings, silver, glass, ceramics, jewellery, books, prints and photographs."--Source.
Famous paintings and biographies of painters around the world.
They provide the biggest gateway to the arts on the Internet - from happening, grooving' art events to traditional planar exhibitions and museums to way out 3-D cyber galleries.