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Open-access websites:
ArtDaily
Free online newspaper about all aspects of visual art
Art Project
Thousands of works of art from world museums
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Materials Culture
Created and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
Digital Schomburg - NYPL
Find exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Graphics Atlas
Print identification and characteristic exploration tools
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Photograph collections made available by the Library of Congress
VADS: Online Image Collection
Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Japanese museumfFocusing on works produced since 1980
The British Museum
Website for the British Museum in London, England
The Guggenheim - Bilbao
Website for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain
The Hermitage
Website for the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
The Louvre
Website for the Louvre in Paris, France
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
One of the most important collections of contemporary Latin-American art in the world
Museo del Prado
Website for the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Access collections from the MNBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP)
Explore the MASP in Brazil virtually
The National Gallery
Website for the National Gallery of Art in London, England
National Museum, New Delhi
Search collections of one of the largest museums in India
The National Palace Museum
Website for the National Palace Museum in Taipai
The Rijksmuseum - Rijksstudio
Access images through Riksstudio, from the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands
The Tate
Online resources from The Tate in London, Liverpool, and St. Ives
The Uffizi Galleries
Website for the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy.
The Vatican Museums
Websute if the Vatican Museums in Rome, Italy.
Website for the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute
Website for the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design
The Getty
Website for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
The Guggenheim
Website for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Search the collections of LACMA including paintings, sculpture, photographs, ceramics, and textiles.
The Met
Website the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Museum of Latin American Art
Explore the collections of MOLAA in Long Beach, California
MoMA
Website for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
The National Gallery
Open access images from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
The National Museum of African American History and Culture
Access digital images from the NMAAHC in Washington, DC
North Carolina Museum of Art
Explore collections online from the NCMA in Raleigh, NC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Website for the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America
Smithsonian Institute - Museums
Access all of the Smithsonian museums
St. Louis Art Museum
Online collections from the St. Louis Art Museum
Studio Museum in Harlem
Images from the collections of SMH in New York City
The Walters
Images from Baltimore's Walters Art Museum
The Whitney
Website for The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City