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Art Museums

"The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art houses one of the finest collections of 18th, 19th and 20th century American art in the Midwest. Through special exhibitions, educational programs, performance events and publications, the Albrecht-Kemper serves as a cultural arts center for Northwest Missouri."

"American Jazz Museum, where the essence and living spirit of jazz legends fill the atmosphere, as the story of jazz and her greatest performers is told through the sights and sound of one the most interactive museums in the country."

The collection includes works of  contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud, Grace Hartigan, William Wegman, Red Grooms, Georgia O'Keeffe, Christopher Brown, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Mulvane Art Museum

"The Mulvane Art Museum is dedicated to providing art education and art resources to Topeka and surrounding areas. The Mulvane Education Department provides numerous options for all ages, including in-house and outreach programming. The Mulvane Art Museum cooperates with the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the City of Topeka, ArtsConnect, local school districts, area agencies, businesses and private donors to offer citywide Art Resources for Topeka (A.R.T.) education programs."

This site provides information about the museum, research and history, how to become a member and more.

This is the site for our local art museum.

The web site for the new Science City Museum located in Union Station has information about adventures, theaters, restaurants and shops, events and tours, city news, Union Station, and how to become a citizen.

The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art is the art museum of the University of Kansas, Lawrence. The building also houses the Kress Foundation Department of Art History and the Murphy Library of Art and Architecture.

Information about the museum, a virtual tour, and information about how to contact the museum are found here.

Here you can find online photography exhibits, information for researchers and collectors, museum news, and other information.

General information, books and multimedia, collections, exhibitions, image rights, libraries and archives, and program information can be found here.

Here you can find out about the museum's exhibitions, film and video collection, collections and research, education and events, general information, membership information, and the museum store.

Information about exhibits, education, outreach programs, history, the collection, and links to other resources.

The museum's web site has information about visiting the museum, their exhibitions, art collections, the CMA cinema, a calendar, information about Carnegie International, conservation, and publications.

"The DuSable Museum of African-American History is the only major independent institution in Chicago established to preserve and interpret the hisotrical experiences and achievements of African-Americans." Here you can find information about the museum, exhbitions, cinema series, calendar of events, the museum's theater, education and technology, volunteers, and much more.

This site has links to the De Young and Legion of Honor Museums.  It also has an art imagebase that currently contains much of the museums' collections.  The imagebase can be accessed through this website.  It has a wonderful zoom feature that allows you to view a large, high resolution image of the artwork.

"The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture, superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality. In addition, several special exhibitions are scheduled annually." Here you can find information about the collection, the library, a calendar, exhibitions, education, and a museum shop.

"The Huntington Gallery, originally the Huntington residence, contains one of the most comprehensive collections in this country of British and French art of the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to being home to Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Lawrence's Pinkie, the Gallery also has special changing exhibitions."

"Joslyn Art Museum has served as a premier center for the visual arts since it opened in 1931. Nebraska's only fine arts museum with an encyclopedic permanent collection, Joslyn features works from antiquity to the present with a special emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century art from Europe and America."

The museum houses more than two million works of art spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.  This site has information about the museum's collection and is designed to give the visitor an overview of the museum.

Information about the Institute, images from the permanent collection, information about exhibits, events, membership and ArtsConnectEd educational program.

"The Museum of Bad Art is a private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory. The pieces in the collection range from the work of talented artists that have gone awry, to works of exuberant, although crude, execution by artists barely in control of the brush. What they all have in common is a special quality that sets them apart in one way or another from the merely incompetent." Very interesting and fun site.

The Museum of Contemporary Art collects, exhibits and interprets art created since 1940 in all media and preserves it for future generations. Here you can find out about the museum, exhibitions, the permanent collection, education, special events, and a calendar.

This site contains information about the museum's collections, exhibitions, calendar, visitor info and library.

"Welcome to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 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." Here you can find information about current, upcoming, and past exhibitions; collections; events; films; admission and memberships and the Beck Building.

Information about the collection, exhibitions, programs and events, online projects, research resources, education, publication, and information about visiting the museum.

Art and artifacts concerning American Jewish History. Here you can find out about current and past exhibits, featured artists, recent acquisitions and more.

This site offers a video tour of the museum with its founder as well as links to permanent collections, exhibitions, education, research, and a calendar.

Part of the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery's site offers information about the musuem, its collections, exhibitions, a calendar, and a search engine.

"Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library is an extraordinary complex of buildings in the heart of New York City."

General museum information, exhibit information with links to more in-depth information, and a virtual reality gallery.

"Dedicated to art and free to all" is this museum's motto. Here you can find information about the museum including directions, art reference questions, classes, collections, dining, ehxibitions, and more.

"The Smithsonian gateway to digitized images from its museums, archives, and libraries. Currently more than 15,000 images have been digitized and described. The collection is browsable by department and searchable by keyword, artist/maker, department, or year. Additional fields include medium, object name, title, and culture/region. Digitization of the collections is an ongoing project as there are more than 240 million objects in the Smithsonian."

This site has links to the museum's collection, projects, and exhibits.

This museum offers amazing exhibits online. You can also find information about the museum, the holocaust, the committee on conscience, an international directory, education, and collections and archives.

"The Andy Warhol Museum is a vital forum in which diverse audiences of artists, scholars and the general public are galvanized through creative interaction with the art and life of Andy Warhol. The Warhol is ever-changing and constantly re-defining itself in relation to contemporary life, using its unique collections and dynamic, interactive programming as tools."

Here you can find information about the Whitney, its collections and exhibitions, research, education, membership, shop online at its museum store and buy tickets in advance.

The gateway to museums, galleries, and heritage attraction in the United Kingdom. The site features a museum finder, resources, a magazine, trails, a scrapbook, and more.

General museum information, exhibition information, a gallery tour, educational program information, gallery talks, publications, departments, conservation, and links to other resources can be found here.

The British Museum contains six and a half million objects including collections of antiquities from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome, as well as Prehistoric and Romano-British, Medieval, Renaissance, Modern and Oriental collections; Prints and Drawings; Coins, Medals and Banknotes.

This site has links to the Guggenheim Museums and their collections, projects, exhibits, and history.

Here you can learn about upcoming exhibitions and events, find out about the collection, browse a museum directory, and view images of art displayed by the museum.

This is the official site of the Louvre Museum in Paris.  It includes visitor information, describes the current temporary exhibitions, and selections of works from each of the seven departments that make up the museum.

"The National Gallery, London houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free."

Here you can find out about this museum, located in Taiwan, Republic of China. The site offers information about exhibits, collections, activities, publications, services, and more.

This site contains the history and some general information about the museum in Madrid.

"At the heart of St. Petersburg stand five magnificent structures, formerly the residence of grand tsars and tsarinas of Russia, now the home of the State Hermitage museum. Two centuries of building and collecting have resulted in one of the largest and most exquisite art collections in the world." Here you can find information about the museum, collection highlights, exhibitions, history, and a digital collection.

The Tate Gallery houses the national collections of British art and international modern art. Information about the museum, exhibitions, new acquisitions, and the museum's library and archive are available here.

"Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern displays the Tate's collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, including major works by Bacon, Dalí, Picasso, Matisse, Rothko and Warhol as well as contemporary work by artists such as Rebecca Horn, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing. There is also a full range of special exhibitions and a broad public programme of events throughout the year."

Many important works of Italian and other schools are kept here, including the largest existing collection of Tuscan Renaissance paintings. This site contains pictures, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements and techniques.

The Van Gogh museum has a collection of Van Gogh's work that originally belonged to his brother Theo. The collection also includes many works by other 19th century artists. The site has information about the museum, its collections, exhibitions, and information about Van Gogh's life and times.

The Vancouver Art Gallery, the largest art gallery in western Canada, presents national and international exhibitions of works by a range of artists, from groundbreaking contemporary visionaries to historical masters. Founded in 1931, the Gallery has more than 7,900 works in its collection, valued at over $100 million.

This web site hopes that it "may be a useful instrument of knowledge and access to the complex reality of these five hundred – year old art collections which are the destination of more than four million visitors each year."

"The V&A is the greatest museum of applied and decorative arts in the world. Explore the breathtaking permanent collections from the four corners of the globe including fashion and textiles, sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, silver and jewellery, furniture, photography and paintings."

"The Collections Australia Network (CAN) portal is intended to be the public gateway to collecting institutions across Australia including the small to medium regional institutions. Besides providing access to nationwide information on Australia's cultural heritage, members of the public can also access an individual institution's own CAN website to explore their specific content, including: collection descriptions and objects, exhibitions and general events,news, useful tools, links, resources for people working in the sector stories, Discovernet (educational material)and MySpace (manage your own portfolio of objects)".

"MOAC began in 1997 when 11 California museums begain working with the California Digital Library to integrate access to collections of art, historical artifacts, photography, and manuscripts from museums, archives, and libraries throughout the state. In addition to developing an unparalleled content resources for research and instruction, MOAC had a second, equally important, goal of developing best practices for museums so that museums of all sizes and types could cost-effectively participate in the "digital revolution" and provide sophisticated, standards-based access to their collections."  MOAC stands for Museums and the Online Archive of California.

"Euromuse.net is a public access portal giving accurate information on major exhibitions in European museums. It provides all vital information in one place, updated by the host museum; with euromuse.net you will never again be bogged down in proliferating individual websites and search engines. Each museum's information is available in the native language and in English. Updating of euromuse.net is continuous."

This site allows the public to search one database to access the collections of the five museums. The five participating college museums are Historic Deefield, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, University Gallery Univeristy of Massachusetts and Smith College Museum of Art.

"Greek Museums is an online guide for museums located in Greece that has a purpose to contribute to the popularity of Greek culture worldwide. It covers museums both of mainland Greece and the Greek islands."

Museums worldwide may announce their exhibits on this site. Included are address, full description of the museum, hours of operation, and price of admission. Information is accessible either by search engine or by category. The welcome page includes the latest museum news worldwide and also features a different museum each day.

This site lists links to countries.  Each country has a list of museums and resources that are available on the Internet.

This organizes museums by region, period, type and media.  There is also a set of links in the left frame that lists museums alphabetically.