Museums & Galleries

Galleries

ArtAtlas: Art Galleries of the World
"This database lets you find addresses of over 4500 international art galleries. Some entries provide additional information on the gallery, like opening hours or a link to its homepage."

Museums

Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design
The site for the Bauhaus Archive/Museum in Berlin features an illustrated chronicle and analysis of this major movement.

Brooklyn Museum of Art
The second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, N. Y. The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design.

Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
Official Web site of the collection housing "masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting." In addition, the "Library is one of the world's great repositories for the documentation and visual study of Western Art and serves as the research arm of The Frick Collection."

Guggenheim Museum
Modern and contemporary art. Site links to Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin.

Louvre Museum
Provides a visual and panoramic view of the museum in Paris, France and its various art collections.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.
Information on collections, special exhibitions and events, and featuring 3,500 works from the collection which can be viewed online.

Mint Museum of Craft and Design & Mint Museum of Art
The Mint Museum of Craft & Design features a permanent collection that documents contemporary studio craft, tracing the movement’s historical roots in the 19th century and its relationship to traditional decorative arts and industrial design. The Mint Museum of Art has collections of American art, pre-Columbian art, American and European ceramics, American decorative arts, historic costumes and accessories, African art, Asian art, historic maps, contemporary art and photography.

MOMA: Museum of Modern Art, N. Y.
Modern and contemporary art,including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photos, architectural models and drawings, decorative arts, furniture.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, I.L.
O ffers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.

National Art Library. Victoria and Albert Museum, U.K.
A major reference library and the Victoria and Albert Museum's curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book. Includes information on collections, catalogues, exhibitions, publications and archives.

North Carolina Museum of Art
The North Carolina Museum of Art's collection spans more than 5,000 years, from ancient Egyptian artifacts to the latest in contemporary art.

North Carolina Museum Council
Offers listing of North Carolina Museums.

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
"The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954 and a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, provides researchers with access to the largest collection of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States."

Van Gogh Museum
Collects and preserves Western paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphic of between 1840 and 1920. The core collection comprises much of Vincent van Gogh's oeuvre: the museum houses the largest collection of his work in the world. It also offers a broad spectrum of 19th-century art.

Whitney Museum of American Art, N. Y.
Information on exhibitions, collections, programs and events,research, membership,and the museum store.