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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
http://www.art.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/
"This museum will open in 2004. Situated in the center Kanazawa, a major city of 500,000 in Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan, it is a radical venture in many respects."
The American Museum of Photography
http://www.photography-museum.com/
"A Museum Without Walls...for an Art Without Boundaries", this virtual museum exhibits photographs from the collection of Wm. B. Becker. Find out more about creating and preserving photographs.
The Andy Warhol Museum
http://www.warhol.org/
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.
Architekturzentrum Wien
http://www.azw.at/
"The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living venue for exhibitions with regularly changing presentations on architecture. "
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
http://aggv.bc.ca/
"An historic Mansion is the heart of one of Canada's finest art museums."
Art Gallery of Hamilton
http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.on.ca/
"The Art Gallery of Hamilton offers a balanced program of exhibitions that enables everyone to explore the human experience through art."
Art Gallery of New South Wales
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
This museum has many art works, and we can search art works on the Website.
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador
http://www.mun.ca/agnl/
"The AGNL is the largest public gallery in the province. It is the de facto provincial art gallery and is an active member of the national network of approximately 120 public and university galleries and 1700 museums. The AGNL's primary focus, in exhibiting, touring, collecting and publishing, is on contemporary Canadian art, with a specific commitment to the visual art of Newfoundland and Labrador."
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
http://www.agns.gov.ns.ca/
"With a history dating to 1908, the mission of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is to serve the public by bringing the visual arts and people together in an environment which encourages exploration, dialogue and enjoyment. This is achieved by providing leadership in the development and preservation of quality collections, exhibitions, and education and public programs. "
Art Gallery of Ontario
http://www.ago.net/navigation/flash/index.cfm
This museum holds paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings including European 15th-20th century and British 18th-20th cetury.
Art Gallery of the South Okanagan
http://www.galleries.bc.ca/agso/
"The exhibition program seeks to offer to the people of Penticton, the south Okanagan valley and visitors to the area, a wide variety of exhibitions of fine and decorative art from regional, provincial and national sources. "
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
http://www.artic.edu/aic/
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier art museums. Their web site contains information on their collections, libraries, and shops, as well as information about visiting the museum.
The Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
This museum is the Britain's Oldest Public Museum.
The Asian Art Museum
http://www.asianart.org/
This museum 's core is a permanent collection of more than 13,000 objects, spanning 6,000 years of history.
Auckland Art Gallery
http://www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/
"Auckland Art Gallery has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand. A public art gallery located within two buildings, the main gallery and the new gallery, it exhibits work from its collection along with a programme of national and international touring exhibitions."
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
http://www.beaverbrookartgallery.org/
"The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, a gift to the people of New Brunswick from Lord Beaverbrook (Sir Max Aitken), features works by Canadian and British artists and a unique sample of works from international artists. The Gallery exhibits an exciting mix of works from its own collection as well as works and exhibitions on loan from other institutions. The Gallery's icon, Salvador Dalí's Santiago el Grande is on permanent display."
Beni Culturali Cappuccini
http://www.bccmuseum.org/
This museum is an art museum.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
"The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive includes works by such twentieth-century masters as Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, René Magritte, and Joan Miró- and also presents guest appearances by film luminaries such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Toshiro Mifune, Susan Sontag, and Wayne Wang. The gallery is dedicated to presenting the experimental, the rare and rarely seen, the unexpected and the controversial."

"BAM/PFA launched this website in Dec. 1994. Since then the site has grown into the central distribution point for most of BAM/PFA's Education Technology Projects. It went through a major re-design in May 1997 to take advantage of improving web technology and the addition of significant searchable resources, such as PFA Filmnotes and Online Collection Guides."

BildMuseet
http://www.umu.se/bildmuseet/
"Contemporary art and visual culture attract over 100,000 visitors annually to BildMuseet, the museum of Umeå University. "
The British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/default.aspx
Images of famous works owned by the British Museum are pictured here, along with the history of the museum and general information about collections, exhibits, departments, tours, and events. Educational materials about the cultures represented in the Museum's collections are also available here.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
http://www.brooklynart.org/
"The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represents almost every culture."
Buchheim Museum
http://www.buchheimmuseum.de/
"The Buchheim Collection encompasses an extraordinarily wide spectrum of outstanding expressionist art."
Carl Eldh Studio Museum
http://hotel.telemuseum.se/carleldhsatelje/
"The Carl Eldh Studio Museum, dating from the beginning of the 20th century, is a well-preserved artist's studio where one of Sweden's greatest sculptors, Carl Eldh (1873-1954), lived and worked for more than thirty years. This unique building, beautifully situated in Bellevue Park in central Stockholm, was built between 1918-19 and designed by an architect-friend of Carl Eldh, Ragnar Östberg, who also conceived the Stockholm City Hall."
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
http://cprr.org/
The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum exhibits stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history of the first transcontinental railroad. Detailed discussion of the photographic processes used to create the images are included. There is also dicussion of the contribution of the Chinese workers who helped build the railroad.
CHHATRAPATI sHIVAJI mAHARAJ vASTU sANGRAHALAYA
http://www.bombaymuseum.org/
"The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India is one of the best-known Museums of the Country. This magnificent heritage building, situated on the famous 'Crescent Site' on the way to the Gateway of India, is a landmark of south Mumbai. "
The Children's Museum
http://www.bostonkids.org/
"The Children's Museum pioneered the concept of interactive exhibitions used widely in museums today. Designed and built in-house, exhibits from The Children's Museum of Boston have been replicated at prestigious institutions throughout the world. Exhibits focus on early childhood development and have four themes: arts, culture, science and technology."
The Cleveland Museum of Art
http://www.clevelandart.org/
The collection of this museum has artistic work of many countries.
Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Virtual Musuem & Encyclopedia
http://www.comic-art.com/
"The definitive encyclopedic reference to the comic world, from it's beginings in sequential cave painting to today's dynamic media culture." This source contains histories, biographies of artists, writers, creators, publishers and others involved in the field, as well as news on what's happening in comics today, and articles on collecting comics and comic art.
Dalhousie Art Gallery
http://is.dal.ca/~gallery/
"Dalhousie Art Gallery offers programs of exhibitions, lectures, films & artists' presentations free of charge."
Dance museum
http://www.dancemuseum.com/
"A year of celebration! Dansmuseet (The Dance Museum) in Stockholm can celebrate its 50th anniversary in the Swedish capital in 2003."
Design museum
http://www.designmuseum.org/
"The Design Museum is one of London's most inspiring attractions. Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of critically acclaimed exhibitions captures the excitement of design's evolution, ingenuity and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"
Deutsche Guggenheim
http://www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com/guggenheim/
"The exhibition space hosts three to four important exhibitions each year, many of which showcase a work specially commissioned by an artist (archive). The exhibition program and the day-to-day management of the museum is the joint responsibility of the two partners."
Dongguk University Museum
http://home.dongguk.ac.kr/~arthistory/m.html
This museum shows Korean Buddhist civilization and culture.
The Fitzwilliam museum
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
"This museum is the art museum of the University of Cambridge."
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
http://www.doriapamphilj.it/
"I am Jonathan Doria Pamphilj and I welcome you to the website of our Gallery. Here you'll be able to find out more about the collection and some of the family history behind us. You will be able to see some views of the main rooms of the Palace."
Glenbow museum
http://www.glenbow.org/
"Glenbow is western Canada's largest museum, with over 93,000 square feet of exhibition space spreading over three floors. More than 20 galleries are filled with artifacts from Glenbow's collection of over a million objects."
Global Show-n-Tell Museum Wings
http://www.telenaut.com/gst/
The Global Show-n-Tell Museum is an online art gallery of artwork done by kids of all ages. Parents can find out how to enter their child's artwork here. Each wing is divided by age level. There are also links to many other sites of interest to kids.
Harvard University Art Museums
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/
"The three Harvard University Art Museums—the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum—are all outstanding institutions in their respective fields. "
Hong Kong Museum of Art
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Arts
"It is the mission of the Hong Kong Museum of Art to preserve the cultural heritage of China and promote art with a local focus. Its collections now number in excess of 12,800 art objects, including Chinese paintings and calligraphy works, antique Chinese treasures, paintings of historical significance as well as creations by local artists. The highlights of the collections are on display in the exhibition galleries."
Horim Museum
http://www.horimmuseum.org/
"The Horim Museum owns more than 10,000 collections of Korean arts including more than 3,000 earthenwares, 1,100 celadons, 2,100 porcelains, 500 punchongs, 2,000 paintings and books, 400 metal arts and 700 other items. "
Instituto de Artes
http://www.arte.unb.br/
This institution holds art works.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/
"The galleries are filled with paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts from cultures spanning thirty centuries."
The J. Paul Getty Museum
http://www.getty.edu/museum/
The J. Paul Getty Museum colletcs and exhibits Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts, and European and American photographs and offers a range of special exhibitions and educational programs.
Kamloops Art Gallery
http://www.galleries.bc.ca/kamloops/
"The Kamloops Art Gallery exhibits and collects works of art which reflect our society; works which provoke thought and encourage investigation and reflection. These works of art map human experience, record contemporary practices, and provide a statement about a society for future study."
Kimbell Art Museum
http://kimbellart.org/
"The Kimbell Art Museum's holdings range in period from antiquity to the 20th century, including masterpieces by Duccio, Fra Angelico, Mantegna, Caravaggio, El Greco, La Tour, Rubens, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Houdon, Goya, David, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, and Mondrian."
Georg-Kolbe Museum
http://www.georg-kolbe-museum.de/
"Once again - for the first time since 1999 - this exhibtion presents large collections of the works of Georg Kolbe, friends and colleagues, basically of the personal legacy of Kolbe."
Kunstgewerbemuseum
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/kgm
"The Museum is the oldest of its kind in Germany. Despite great losses during the Second World War this museum still possesses one of the world's major collections of European applied art. "
Kunstgewerbemuseum
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/kgm
"The Museum is the oldest of its kind in Germany. Despite great losses during the Second World War this museum still possesses one of the world's major collections of European applied art. "
Kunsthalle Wien
http://www.kunsthallewien.at/
This museum displays contemporary and classical modern art.
Kunsthaus Bregenz
http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/
This museum exibits contemporary art.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
http://www.khm.at/
"The collections of the Kunsthistorische Museum are amongst the most important and spectacular in the world."
Leighton House Museum
http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/LeightonHouseMuseum/general/
"The Museum provides an unforgettable insight into Leighton’s private world and is a unique venue for the understanding and appreciation of Victorian art and architecture."
Lin Hsin Hsin Art museum
http://www.lhham.com.sg/
"This award-winning Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum has been visited by more than 661,874 visitors from 116 countries. Lin Hsin Hsin is the first in the world to set up a wireless Museum with Internet access in her Cyberart show in 1997."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://www.lacma.org/
"LACMA joins the California Arts Council to urge you to support the California Arts License Plate Program as a means of raising funds for arts education in schools and communities throughout the state."
The Louvre Museum
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
"Established in 1793 by the French Republic, the Louvre Museum is one of the earliest European museums. Divided into 7 departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilisations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation."
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/~maltwood/
"The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery houses a large and varied collection ranging from ancient Chinese artifacts to works by well known contemporary artists."
Medieval Art in Pisa
http://www2.alfea.it/
This museum is a vitual museum of Italy.
Mendel Art Gallery
http://www.mendel.saskatoon.sk.ca/
"This exhibition offers an insight into the many images of the cyborg body in the visual arts and popular culture of this past century. "
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest 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."
Musee des Arts Asiatiques
http://www.arts-asiatiques.com/html/firstpage.html
"The museum's collections, based upon an emblematic choice of works that evoke the spirit of Asian cultures, combine the arts of the court and folk or tribal art, in addition to contemporary creations, bringing together genres traditionally divided up between history, ethnography and decorative arts museums."
Musée des arts et métiers
http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/
This museum is an art museum.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
http://www.mairie-quimper.fr/musee/
This museum is an art museum, which is located in Quimper.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
http://www.mbar.org/
This is an art museum.
Musée Rodin
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
"At present, it houses marble, bronze, plaster, wax and terracotta sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and works by other artists (Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh) from his personal collection."
Musei Civici Veneziani
http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/
This museum is an art museum in Venezia.
Musei di Genova - Galleria di Palazzo Bianco
http://www.comune.genova.it/turismo/musei/bianco/bianco.htm
This museum is an art museum in Genova.
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
http://www.museobagattivalsecchi.org/
"HOUSED in Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, in the heart of Milan, is one of the finest museum-homes in Europe. "
Museo Barracco
http://www.comune.roma.it/cultura/italiano/musei_spazi_espos...
This museum is an art museum.
Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi
http://www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it/boncco.htm
This museum is an art museum in Rome.
Museo del Tesoro del Duomo
http://www.vigevanopromotions.it/orari
This museum is an European museum.
Museo di Arte e Tradizione Contradian Olevano di Lomellina
http://www.vigevanopromotions.it/orari/page5.html
This museum is an art museum.
Museo Morandi
http://www.museomorandi.it/index_exp.htm
"The Museum has been set up inside Palazzo d'Accursio, which is the Bologna Town Hall but also a very flourishing cultural centre."
Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia
http://museoreinasofia.mcu.es/
This museum displays the Spanish art works.
Museo nacional Del Prado
http://museoprado.mcu.es/home.html
"The Museo del Prado, founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, also has important collections of drawings (more than 5,000), prints (2,000), coins and medals (around 1,000), and almost 2,000 decorative objects and works of art. Sculpture is represented by more than 700 works and by a smaller number of sculptural fragments."
Museo Napoleonico
http://www.comune.roma.it/museonapoleonico/
This museum is a museum about Napoleon.
Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari
http://www.popolari.arti.beniculturali.it/
This museum is a national art museum in Italy.
Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari
http://www.popolari.arti.beniculturali.it/
This museum is a national art museum in Italy.
Museum for Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
http://www.mkg-hamburg.de/
"It has attained an excellent reputation in many fields, besides its collection of European arts and crafts."
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
http://www.mumok.at/
"The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) is one of the most renowned museums for modern and contemporary art worldwide."
Museum of African Art
http://www.africamuseum.org/
This museum displys African art works.
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
http://www.ostasiatiska.se/
"The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities holds unique collections from Asia. The main focus of the collections is on the archaeology and art of China, Japan, India, Korea, and South Asia."
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/home.htm
"More than 500 highlights from MFA collections - illustrated in color, described, and accompanied by concise and informative text. Many works feature Audio clips excerpted from our Director's Choice audio tour."
Museum of Korean Buddhist Art
http://www.buddhistmuseum.co.kr/
This museum displays Korean Buddhist Art works.
The Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/
"From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 14,000 films and four million film stills, as well as 140,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's library."
Museum of the Legion of Honor
http://www.thinker.org/legion/
"The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge."
Museum of Web Art Kids Wing
http://www.mowa.org/kids/
This site has neat art that you can change using your mouse.
Museumsquartier Wien
http://www.mqw.at/
"The MuseumsQuartier Wien, one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world, offers 60,000 square meters of space to more than forty facilities dedicated to modern and contemporary art and culture."
Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.nagoya-boston.or.jp/
"The Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as the sister museum of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), breaks new ground in Japan by presenting art in innovative and refreshing ways. The manifold works on exhibition are selected from one of the world's finest collections."
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/
"The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present."
National Museum of Art, Osaka
http://www.nmao.go.jp/
"The museum is located at the center of a park commemorating the Expo '70, amidst the lush greenery and with other museums and institutions nearby forms a new center for cultural activities."
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
http://www.momak.go.jp/menu_e.html
"The National Museum of Modern Art,Kyoto was established on its present site on March 1,1963 as The Annex Museum of The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo."
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
http://www.momat.go.jp/
"The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo was opened in 1952 as Japan's first-ever national art museum. Since then, the Crafts Gallery and the National Film Center have also been opened. These three facilities engage in a wide range of activities, including the collection and preservation of works of art, craft, and film as well as of related materials; surveys and research on these works; and exhibitions and screenings organized for the public."
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/
"The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. In the pages that follow you will discover a wealth of information about the museum, selected artists, our collection, and many services. You may choose to examine images of works from our permanent collection. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information."
National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp
"The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women. Today the collection is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world."
Neue Nationalgalerie
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/nng/s.html
Ths gallery has many European art works.
Oratory Museum
http://www.oratorio.com.br/
"Painted, sculptured or woodcut images of saint protectors were widespread. They were often stored in little altars to create an atmosphere of prayer and celebration."
Palazzo Ducale
http://www.palazzoducale.genova.it/
The WebPage of this museums shows view of Genova from the Grimaldina Tower.
Paul Broste Rock Museum
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NDPARbroste.html
"The collection within the Paul Broste Rock Museum encompasses much more than the museum's name implies. Mr. Broste apparently fancied himself an artist as well as a North Dakota farmer, and saw his museum as a way of displaying his paintings, conceptual sculptures, pen-and-ink illustrations, and poems and philosophies, as well as his rocks. "
Pilgrim Hall Museum
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/plgrmhll.htm
"Pilgrim Hall Museum is a gallery museum in the center of historic Plymouth, Massachusetts. Through its exhibition of Pilgrim possessions and Native American artifacts, Pilgrim Hall tells the stories of America¹s founding and traditions in stirring detail." The museum's web site includes articles on the Pilgrims and the history of Thanksgiving, as well as online exhibits of artifacts from the museum.
Pinacoteca Capitolina
http://www.comune.roma.it/museicapitolini/pinacoteca/
This museum is an art museum in Rome.
Residenzgalerie Salzburg
http://www.residenzgalerie.at/
"The majority of the paintings currently on display in the Residenzgalerie Salzburg are owned by the Land Salzburg."
Robert Brady Museum
http://www.geocities.com/bradymuseum/bradyspanish.html
"In the shadow of the Cathedral of Cuernavaca the Casa de la Torre houses a unique collection of fine and decorative arts from all over the world. The visitor will enjoy a house-museum created in a portion of a massive adobe and stone XVI century Franciscan Monastery."
Rodin Museum
http://www.rodinmuseum.org/
"The museum, which opened to the public in 1929, houses 124 sculptures, including bronze casts of the artist's greatest works: The Thinker, perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world; The Burghers of Calais, his most heroic and moving historical tribute; Eternal Springtime, one of the most powerful works dealing with human love; powerful monuments to leading French intellectuals such as Apotheosis of Victor Hugo; and the culminating creation of his career, The Gates of Hell, on which the artist worked from 1880 until his death in 1917."
Rosersberg Palace
http://www.royalcourt.se/net/Kungl.+Hovstaterna/De+kungliga+...
"Rosersberg gets its name from the mother of its founder, the Lord High Treasurer Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna. "
Saarland Museum
http://www.saarlandmuseum.de/
This museum is European art museum.
Sapporo Art Park
http://www.artpark.or.jp/
"Sapporo Art Park continues to make artistic culture more accessible to the public, which in turn breathes new life into the art itself, taking art and Sapporo into the 21st century."
Saskatchewan art museum
http://www.usask.ca/kenderdine/
"The collection contains work that is predominantly (90%) Canadian, including five significant Group of Seven paintings and a growing collection of Kenderdine works (168 art objects in addition to reference material, artifacts and Kenderdine's papers in the Special Collections Archive.) "
Shanghai Art Museum
http://www.echinaart.com/GALLERY/ShanghaiArtMuseum.htm
"Shanghai Art Museum is the foremost contemporary art museum in People's Republic of china. Established over 40 years ago, the museum through continuing expansion gradually becomes an important space for the social and culture exchange in shanghai."
Silla Art and Science Museum
http://www.sasm.or.kr/
This museum shows the art of Silla dynasty, which is one of Korean dynasties, and the science of the dynasty.
Singapore Art Museum
http://www.museum.org.sg/SAM
This exhibition, featuring works from the Singapore Art Museum permanent collection, offers four interrelated themes in Southeast Asian art that explore the complex terrains of Southeast Asian modernity: "Realism and Social Commitment", "Abstraction and the Search for Identities", "Continuities in Traditions", and "Contemporary Perspectives".
The Skyscraper Museum
http://www.skyscraper.org/
Founded in 1996 by Prof. Carol Willis of Columbia University, the Skyscraper Museum brings together archives, photographs, documents, and exhibitions related to skyscrapers and tall buildings. Also included on the site is a construction timeline of all the world's tallest buildings since 1890.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/
"The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art. The museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of our country's artists, whose works are windows on the American experience."
Storico Civico Cuggionese
http://www.cuggiono.org/
"The Museum is intended to offer an overview of the ancient town of Cuggiono, showing the everyday life of our ancestors and the arts popular at that time."
Taiwan Digital Gallery
http://web.cca.gov.tw/tdg/index1-1e.htm
This museum provides information about many paintings and artists on the Web Page.
Te Puna o Waiwhetu Christchurch Art Gallery
http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/
"The Gallery’s permanent collections can be viewed in the first floor galleries. The Collections gallery is divided into three periods – historical, 20th century and contemporary. Two additional collection galleries feature changing shows of works on paper and glass and craft. As well, there are works displayed in the Foyer and Sculpture Garden."
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/lab_arch/moneo/thyssen...
"The Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza began the collection which he supervised throughout 70 years with pieces of ancient art bought in the 1920s. In the 1960s, his son, the current Baron, added to the collection with acquisitions of modern painting, making it on incomparable survey of the history of western art. "
Tina Modotti Virtual Gallery
http://www.modotti.com/
This is a virtual museum of photographs.
Tokyo Advertising Museum
http://www.oricom.co.jp/museum/
Archive of Japanese poster art. Examples from train posters, train station posters, and outdoor print advertising. Archive arranged according to month of first appearance, 9/99 to present. Most major Japanese advertisers represented, especially beverage and fashion industries. Captions link to product home pages. Japanese only.
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
http://www.fujibi.or.jp/tfam
"The TFAM's comprehensive collection consists of 25,000 Western and Eastern artworks--paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, porcelain, photographs, lacquer ware, armor and other artworks, ranging over several centuries. The collection of Western painting masterpieces, in particular, is one of the finest in Japan, offering an overview of the 500 years from the Renaissance to the Modern period."
Tokyo Metroplitan Teien Art Museum
http://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/
"This building preserves for the modern viewer the Art Deco style which took the European art world by storm in the 1920's and 30's. The principal parts were designed by French designer Henri Rapin (1873-1939), and many of the decorative features to be found inside were imported from France and other foreign countries."
Truly Virtual Web Art Museum
http://www.lastplace.com/
This museum shows art works on the Web Page.
UCR/CMP
http://cmp1.ucr.edu/
"UCR / CMP is vitally concerned with the intersection of photography, new imaging media and society. It is the museum's goal to empower the museum's visitor with an understanding of the critical role photography and related media have had in shaping both society and the daily lives of individuals."
Uffizi Gallery
http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/
"The Uffizi Gallery, founded in Florence in 1581, by the De Medici family, is one of the oldest museums in the world. Many important works of Italian and other schools, dating from between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, are kept here, including the largest existing collection of Tuscan Renaissance paintings. The Web guide contains pictures, comments, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements and techniques."
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
http://www.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/
"The strength of the University of Lethbridge Art Collection is the diversity of art works held in the collection. With over 13,000 objects, the collection includes movements from Canada, America and Europe as well as media ranging from drawing, printmaking and painting to photography, sculpture and installation."
Vancouver Art Gallery
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/
"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. "
Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum
http://www.diegorivera.com/
"DIEGO RIVERA (1886-l957), muralist painter, was one of the greatest artists in the XXth century. Diego Rivera's legacy to modern mexican art was decisive in murals and canvas; he was a revolutionary painter looking to take art to the big public, to streets and buildings, managing a precise, direct, and realist style, full of social content."
Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum
http://www.diegorivera.com/
"DIEGO RIVERA (1886-l957), muralist painter, was one of the greatest artists in the XXth century. Diego Rivera's legacy to modern mexican art was decisive in murals and canvas; he was a revolutionary painter looking to take art to the big public, to streets and buildings, managing a precise, direct, and realist style, full of social content."
Vitra Design Museum
http://www.design-museum.de/
"The Vitra Design Museum exhibition "Design Berlin!" introduces the most innovative young designers and architects in Berlin with this presentation of their most important projects."
Vorderasiatische Museum
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/vam
"Fourteen rooms are devoted to this collection in the southern wing of the Pergamon Museum. The collection contains many important examples of architecture, reliefs and smaller objects."
Winnipeg Art Gallery
http://www.wag.mb.ca/
"Established in 1912, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is Western Canada’s oldest public art gallery."
 
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