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Addison Gallery of American Art

http://www.andover.edu/addison/home.html

Contains descriptions and photos from current and upcoming exhibits. The museum’s permanent collection has over 12,000 works, including significant paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography.

The African/Edenic Heritage Museum

http://village.ios.com/~dckog/museum.htm

This traveling exhibit highlights the indigenous African presence in the Holy Land. Among the fascinating subjects explored is scientists’ theory that Eve was more likely a dark-haired, black-skinned woman. Site contains pictures and maps from the exhibit.

Agung Rai Museum of Art

http://www.nusantara.com/arma/

This Indonesian museum houses a collection of works by Balinese, Javanese, and foreign artists. Select works are shown on the site, and they’re a fascinating display of history and culture.

Alexandria Museum of Art

http://cenla.lacollege.edu/arts/amoa/amoa.html

Recently named “one of the most innovative museums in Louisiana,” it contains a collection of contemporary Louisiana art and an array of local, regional, and national exhibits, including the state's largest collection of North Louisiana folk art. The page contains descriptions of the museum’s galleries and a calendar of upcoming exhibitions.

The Brooklyn Museum

http://wwar.com/brooklyn_museum/index.html

The second largest museum in the State of New York, The Brooklyn Museum features a collection of over 1.5 million objects, including works from Ancient Egypt, the arts of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture.

Canadian Wildlife and Wilderness Art Museum

http://intranet.ca/cawa/

Contains representative works of Canada's internationally acclaimed wildlife and wilderness painters, sculptors, and carvers. Includes a gallery of artwork, as well as a bio of and artwork by Robert Lougheed, one of North America’s best known wildlife and Western artists.

The Chrysler Museum of Art and Historic Houses

http://www.whro.org/cl/cmhh/

The museum’s collection of 30,000 objects spans almost 4,000 years of art history. It includes a world-renowned collection of European and American painting and sculpture, an internationally famous glass collection, as well as art from African, Asian, Egyptian, Pre-Columbian, and Islamic cultures.

The columbia Museum of Art

http://www.scsn.net/users/cma/index.html

The museum’s exhibits contain European and American fine and decorative art representing a time period of nearly seven centuries. Its public collections of Renaissance and Baroque art include works by Botticelli, Boucher, Canaletto, Tintoretto, and many others. In 1998, the museum will be moving to a new and larger facility, making it the largest art museum in South Carolina.

The Dallas Museum of Art

http://www.unt.edu/dfw/dma/www/dma.htm

The museum’s holdings include ancient American, African, Indonesian, and contemporary art, as well as American decorative arts. The site includes photos from the museum’s galleries as well as from several outdoor display areas for large sculptures.

The Finnish National Gallery

http://www.fng.fi/fng/html2/en/

Visit the collections at its three specialist museums— Sinebrychoff, the Museum of Foreign Art; Ateneum, the Museum of Finnish Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art—which cover a period of eight centuries. Site contains links to the gallery’s Central Art Archives as well as the capability to search for information about a particular artist or work.

The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art

http://www.latinoweb.com/museo/

This is the first and only museum dedicated 100 percent to Hispanic and Latin American art. (This includes Spain and Latin America, as well as non-Spanish speaking countries such as Brazil and Haiti.) The museum has 11 exhibits per year and is a contemporary art museum, not a historical or pre-Colombian museum. The education department organizes courses in art, literature, music, poetry, and more.

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

http://www.goma.glasgow.gov.uk/

Although this site was still under construction at this book’s writing, it has the beginnings of a great Web site. The site has four galleries—Fire Gallery, Earth Gallery, Water Gallery, and Air Gallery. Definitely a site to bookmark and come back to as it progresses.

Guggenheim Museum

http://math240.lehman.cuny.edu/gugg/

Site contains information about the four sections of the museum —the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City; the Guggenheim Museum SoHo on Broadway in New York City; the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Includes some great photos of the museums and their exhibits.

Henie Onstad Art Center

http://www.hok.no/index-e.html

Henie Onstad Art Centre has one of the largest collections of international contemporary art in Norway. Its permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Beuys, Vasarely, the COBRA artists and Warhol.

Indianapolis Museum of Art

http://web.ima-art.org/ima/home.html

The nation’s seventh-largest general art museum has permanent collections of African, American, Asian, contemporary, decorative, and European art, as well as a textiles and costumes collection, and prints, drawings, and photographs. The IMA complex is surrounded by a 152-acre park, including 50 acres that are accessible to the public and are intensively gardened.

Institute of Contemporary Arts

http://www.illumin.co.uk/ica/

Specializes in exhibiting contemporary visual arts, performance art, cultural discourse, and criticism, cinema and video. There is also a substantial archive of video and audio recordings, which can be browsed on the site.

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archeology

http://www.memst.edu/egypt/main.html

Site includes photos and information from its Egyptian artifacts exhibit, and you can take a virtual tour of over a dozen ancient Egyptian sites along the Nile River. Also contains links to other sites that provide information about Egypt.

International Childrens Art Museum

http://www.icamsf.com/

The International Children's Art Museum in San Francisco features artwork from children around the world. This site has information about the museum and its programs. It also features an online gallery with exhibitions from the museums permanent collection.

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design

http://www.kemperart.org/

Site includes a calendar of events, the history and architecture of the Museum, images from the collection, and a guest book. The museum also boasts a notable Georgia O’Keefe collection, several watercolors of which can be viewed at this site.

Le Louvre

http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/

Official site of this famous museum, the home of the Mona Lisa. Includes information about the museum’s seven departments: Oriental Antiquities (with a section dedicated to Islamic Art); Egyptian Antiquities (with a section dedicated to Coptic Art); Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Paintings; Sculptures; Objets d’Art; and Prints and Drawings. Site includes many details (a small section of a painting, enlarged so you can see it better) from the museum’s collections.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/

One of the largest art museums in the world, its collections include more than two million works of art—several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time—spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present. Site has an educational section for different age levels and interests, including “Looking at Art,” which discusses composition and theme.

Museum of Arts and Crafts

http://web.cnam.fr/museum/index-a.html

This French site (viewed in French or English) contains a QuickTime virtual visit to Foucault's pendulum in the Pantheon, a RealAudio tape of a dulcimer player, and a link to online radio. It also has a database of 45,000 objects online. The site can be a little confusing at times, but there are many neat links to follow.

Museum of Bad Art

http://glyphs.com/moba/

The Museum of Bad Art is dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and celebration of bad art. Site contains many examples of bad art, including one rather amusing piece entitled “Sunday On The Pot With George.” (Hint: If you don’t understand the allusion here, you probably won’t understand why this art is so bad and why this museum is so great.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/

Museum prides itself on exhibiting art that is “past and present, old and new, plain and fancy,” including masterpieces by Renoir, Monet, Sargent, Turner, Gauguin, and others. The site hosts an online exhibition and contains links to samples from upcoming exhibits.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

http://mfah.org/

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston site includes visuals and information about the permanent collection, traveling exhibitions, events, and educational programs. Collections with online links include African sculpture, American painting, ancient art, decorative arts, Impressionist painting, and twentieth-century sculpture.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

http://www.moma.org/

Site displays samples from current and future exhibits as well as its permanent collection, which includes painting and sculpture, drawings, prints and illustrated books, architecture and design, photography, and film and video. The collection includes exceptional groups of work by Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Mondrian, Brancusi, and Pollock. The museum owns over 13,000 films, and the site has a calendar of the museum’s film and video programs. It also contains links to other Web sites created in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art and its exhibits.

Royal Ontario Museum

http://www.rom.on.ca/

This large museum has Greek, Roman, and Far Eastern art, archaeology, and natural sciences collections, as well as Native ethnology and natural history collections. Virtual exhibits include educational activities such as games, quizzes, and QuickTime movies, as well as online artifact identification and curatorial research.

The Salvador Dali Museum Site

http://www.highwayone.com/dali/

An interactive look at The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida (official museum-sponsored site). At this site, you can take a Dali quiz and order Dali mousepads, not to mention view some of his greatest works. (But don’t click on the flies or melting clocks.)

Webmuseum

http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre/

Site includes a small tour of Paris, a unique famous paintings collection, and an exhibition of medieval art, “Les tres riches heures du Duc de Ber.” The site always features at least one special exhibit—at this book’s writing, it was a great collection of works by Paul Cèzanne, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists.

Whitney Museum of american Art

http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/

Site contains selections from the permanent collection of 20th-century American art as well as links to other art museums. The museum also sponsors artists working on the Web and provides links to some artists' Web projects.

Yokohama Museum of Art

http://www.art-museum.city.yokohama.jp/index_e.html

Site provides links and photos from exhibits, past and present. It also gives descriptions and maps of the different areas of the museum.