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Art Museums

Start here by accessing every Museum in the World which is on-line  - 123World (blocked 1/07) - Alphabetical Listing.  Museum.com - Search Engine where you can search by categories.  Upper left-hand corner.

Best of the Web - Museums and the Web 2004

Cybermuse - National Gallery of Canada - Choose English to enter.  You will receive instant access to more than 5,000 images culled from the National Gallery of Canada and housed in an easily searchable database.  Search by subject, artist, and galleries.  You can also link back into the gallery's official site to view more than 42,000 works!

Getty Museum - Includes special exhibits in addition to the regular offerings.

himalayan art - The mission of the website is to create a comprehensive research database, a virtual museum, of Himalayan and Tibetan art.

Louvre - The site for the Louvre museum in Paris. You can browse some of the collections, learn about the structure and read about the renovations, such as the addition of the Pyramid. And, if you can read French, read the magazine.

Metropolitan Museum of Art - This art museum  in New York has more than 2 million works of art, and you can view a number of them online. The site itself is also well laid out and clean; they make it easy to browse the different floors.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Most striking of the Online Collections is the Modernism collection, which is grouped in years from 1880-1940.  Whether European Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, or American Art Deco is your interest or focal point, this area will both educate and stimulate with reference text, a generous number of examples, and current links.  Don't leave without exploring their unique online exhibition of "Restoring a Master-work," which includes the detailed process of bringing back to life a 300-year-old painting from the museum's collection.

mowa (museum of web art) - “The World Wide Web is a new world, and its artisans are using new tools to create within it. Technology has become a technique, and technique is the result of technology."

National Gallery of Art - Online Tours - choose from a vast range of paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, graphic arts, and other rich resources of the National Gallery.

Smithsonian American Art Museum - Ask Joan of Ark if you have any questions that you are unable to find the answer.  Archives of American Art

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