North American Art Museums
Canada
National Gallery of Canada 
Visit the site's CyberMuse section for access to over 10,000 images of works of the Gallery's permanent collection, video and audio recordings of world renowned artists, interpretive and interactive games, showcases of special exhibits, a resource center for teachers, and illustrations of numerous art techniques.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
You can explore art in the museum through virtual thematic tours, a series of interactive activities help you explore and learn more about the art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Learn about the Group of Seven and explore First Nations art and Inuit art. The Art2Life Section looks at 100 years of Canadian history through its art. of There is a section for kids that features coloring sheets, a virtual tour, quizzes, and games.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
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Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Examples from this museum's collection of contemporary art by artists from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In Spanish
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Alabama
Birmingham Museum of Art
You can get interactive 3D views of objects in the museums collection, view images of works from the museum's collection of Asian, African, and Indigenous American art, as well as photography, prints, sculpture, and paintings.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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Arizona
ASU Art Museum
Explore some of the works in the museum's collection of American paintings, Latin American and Cuban art, crafts, and works on paper. You'll find works by John James Audubon, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Robert Motherwell, and Karel Appel.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Phoenix Art Museum
You can view Samples from the museum's American, European, Asian, Contemporary, Western American, Latin American, and fashion design collections. Artist's on display include: Gilbert Stuart, Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, and Maxfield Parrish.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Center for Creative Photography
You can view highlights from the Center's collection. Artists include works by: Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Edward Weston, and Frederick Sommer.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Heard Museum
This museum in Phoenix, Arizona, is dedicated to Native American artifacts and art with emphasis on the traditional cultures of the Greater Southwest and on the evolving Native American Fine Art Movement. This site contains online exhibits and some teaching materials including the Native American Fine Arts Resource Guide.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Mohave Museum of History and Arts
Dedicated to preserving and presenting the heritage of Northwestern Arizona. There are images of some of the items in the museums collection, and from special exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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California
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Composed of the de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco maintains and incredible online online database of over 82,000 images for the collections of both institutions. The database is searchable by artist, country, period, or keyword and you can zoom in multiple times for a closer look at an image. The Legion of Honor's collection includes 14th -20th century European works, works on paper, and antiquities from the ancient Mediterranean world and the Near East. The de Young collection include American paintings and sculpture; African art; Oceanic art; and art from Mesoamerica and Central and South America
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
J. Paul Getty Museum
This Los Angeles museum features Greek and Roman antiquities, contemporary American and European photographs, paintings, decorative arts, manuscripts, and sculpture. The site includes images and artist biographies for over 1180 artist.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This site features thousands of images of works in the museum's collection. The museum has significant collections of African, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South and Southeast Asian, and Islamic art. It also has collections of textiles, prints and drawings, and photography.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Norton Simon Museum of Art: 20th Century Art
This museum's collection contains works from the 14th-20th century as well as a large collection of Asian art. You can view an entire work or you can enlarge sections of a work up to four times. Each item is accompanied by a detailed description.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
You can view works from this museum's permanent collection of art from 1940 to the present. You will find works by Richard Artschwager, Willem deKooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
You will find over 1300 images of works in the museum's art collection. Works in the collection include a large number of Chinese and Japanese art, Indian miniature paintings, and works by Hans Hofmann. As an added bonus, you can search over 12,000 film notes from past PFA exhibitions. Check out Cinefiles, a database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive Library's clippings files.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
UCR/California Museum of Photography
One of the features of this site is a database of images by Ansel Adams, you will also find online exhibitions, and works by Raoul Gradvohl, A.C. Vroman, Jean Ruiter, William Amos Haines, and Herbert Quick as well as an exhibit of works by women photographers and images of China's Forbidden City from the 1920s.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
San Diego Museum of Art
Explore some of the works in this museum's collection of American, Asian, European, and contemporary art. You'll find works by artists like Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Hieronymous Bosch, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, El Greco, Winslow Homer, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Henri Mattisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Rivera, and Andrew Wyeth. Each work is accompanied by a description, you can zoom in for a closer look and you can find out where the work was made on a map and see how large the work is. For some works you will also find additional information. In addition to viewing the art, you can also access an encyclopedia of art and learn about art topics relating to the collection.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
You can view works from the museum's permanent collection of painting and sculpture, architecture and design, media arts, and photography. You will also find a number of educational interactive web features and an e school feature with classroom resources.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
San Jose Museum of Art
You can view works from the museum's permanent collection of painting, sculpture, media arts, drawing, and photography. You can also access images from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
Online images with descriptions of works from the museum's collection of European Old Masters, American Artists, and Russian Icons are available at this site. You will find works by Albert Bierstadt, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Claesz, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Jacques-Louis David, and Veronese.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens
You can view selected works from this museum's collection of 18th and 19th century British works. You'll find paintings by Thomas Gainsborough (his Blue Boy), Thomas Lawrence, George Romney, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, Joseph Turner, William Blake, William Morris, You'll also find works by American artists Edward Hopper, John Singleton Copley, Mary Cassatt, and Frederic E. Church. You will also find a special K-12 online exhibit, Land of Golden Dreams, that includes Gold Rush manuscripts, drawings, and rare printed materials.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
You can view selected works from MCA's permanent collection of art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
The USC Fisher Gallery
This museum's collection includes 19th century American landscapes; 18th and 19th century Northern paintings; 18th century British portraiture; and 19th century Barbizon paintings, as well as 20th century works on paper, paintings and sculpture. Plans are underway to put images from the collection on the web. Currently you can view works from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Crocker Art Museum
You can view works from some of the museums's current and past exhibits. .
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Colorado
Denver Art Museum
This museum's permanent collection includes Asian art, modern and contemporary art, Native arts, New World art, painting and sculpture, textile art and Western American art. You can view works in the Asian collection in a special web section where you will find art from China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Tibet, Nepal and Buddhist art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
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Connecticut
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
The Center's collection consists of works on paper. You can view some images of the drawings, prints, and photographs in the collection on the site. The Center is also starting to digitize its larger collection and currently has images of prints by Eugène Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Hendrik Goltzius, and Rembrandt online for use by Wesleyan students, but accessible by anyone.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
You can view a few of the works from this museum's collection of American and Eurpean paintings, decorative arts, contemporary art, and costumes and textiles. You'll find works by Jacob Lawrence, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich
You'll find some samples from the museum's collections as well as images of works from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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Delaware
Delaware Art Museum
View works form this museum's collection of American Painting, English Pre-Raphaelite art and American illustration. You will find works by Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Frederic Edwin Church, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
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District of Columbia
National Gallery of Art
You can view images and information for the 100,000 works in the permanent collection. You will also find artist biographies and for many works you can view image details. You can search the collection by artist, title, or subject or you can take one of a series of online thematic tours of works. There is section for kids with art links, activities, and projects.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
National Museum of American Art
Over 13,000 works from the museum's permanent collection are available for viewing. In addition you can access 18 online exhibits like: Posters American Style; An Edward Hopper Scrapbook; Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art; and The White House Collection of American Crafts. You can also access Helios, a collection of hundreds of works by American photographers.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Corcoran Museum of Art
View works in this museum's collection of American art , Contemporary art, European art, Photographs and Media art, and prints and drawings . You'll find works by Albert Bierstadt, Mart Cassatt, Fredric Church, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Singleton Copley, Arthur Garfield Dove, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, and Andy Warhol. You can also view works from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
National Museum of African Art
You can view over 1000 works of African art from the museum's collection. You can also view online exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
National Museum of Women in the Arts
You'll find images of over 250 works of art by women dating from the 16th-20th century. You will also find artist profiles, historic context, and analysis of many of the works.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
National Portrait Gallery
Take a tour of the Hall of Presidents and view portraits of famous Americans from the 18th Century, with biographies, (the site is updating its image database section and plans to have portraits from the 18th-20th century accessible) or access online exhibits at this museum dedicated to portraits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
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Florida
International Museum of Cartoon Art, Boca Raton
Visit the Hall of Fame for samples and artist profiles of cartoonists like Chuck Jones, Rube Goldberg, and Thomas Nast or go to the artist section for profiles and examples of the work of some contemporary cartoonists.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
You can view some works from the museum's collection of European and American art, Photography, Greek and Roman antiquities, and pre-Columbian and Asian art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Orlando Museum of Art
If you can get past the opening screen and the jumping menu items to the art collection, you can view works of American art, art from the Ancient Americas, and African art. You can also view images from current exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Georgia
High School Museum of Art, Atlanta
This museum's permanent collection includes African art, American art, decorative arts, European art, folk art, modern and contemporary art, and photography. You can view over 100 works from the collection organized by artist, medium, or time period. You can also access three online exhibits,
French Masterworks from The State Pushkin Museum, Moscow,
Art of the Architect, and
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University
This museum's collection consists of objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The Museum is also home to collections of 19th and 20th-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present. You will find images of works in the collection along with commentary. You will also find a special kids exhibit Odyssey Online, that explores ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta
This museum is dedicated to Southern art and artists.You can access selected works in the collection.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Hawaii
Honolulu Academy of Art
You can access over 100 examples of works in the museum's collection of Asian, Western, Hawaiian, Oceanic, African, art of the Americas, and textile art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
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Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago
You can take online QuickTime tours of the museums collection of European art, prints and drawings, 20th Century Art, African and Amerindian Art, Ancient Art, textiles, and architecture. You can also play a series of art games, and view a number of online exhibits. Educational features include:
Art Access, a learning site with images and text, lesson plans, maps, bibliographies, and family activities;
Cleopatra, where you can learn about ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art with narrated video clips, interactive timelines and maps, and lesson plans; and
Science, Art and Technology, where you can hear specialists in art history, art conservation, and the sciences discuss the connections between art, science, and technology in video clips, along with lesson plans, and student projects
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
The museum's collection includes art from the ancient world to the 20th century. You can access images of over 3,000 with a database that is searchable by artist, name, or media. The interactive
smARTkids section for kids explores art and artists.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
Take a virtual museum tour of this museum's collection of Egyptian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian, and Persian art or view selected highlights from the museum's collection. The site also has a Kid's Corner, that includes a timeline of ancient Egypt and a look at how mummies were prepared for burial.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana
You can view over 50 examples of works from the museum's permanent collection of American, Asian, African, and European art. You will also find a number of online exhibits including: Science in the Art Museum that explores how curators, conservators, art historians, and scientists work together to extract technological and historical information from ancient objects; a Greek Vase Tour; Frans Hals: An Exploration in Painting and Fashion, and Concerned Theatre Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theatre, 1960-80.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
This museum's collection contains works representing trends in art after 1945. You can view over 150 works from the museum's permanent collection. You'll find works by Alexander Calder, Richard Artschwager, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Christo, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Hans Belmer, Ann Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Claes Oldenburg, and Julian Schnabel.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art
You can view selected works from the museum's collection of American, European, African, Asian, contemporary, textile, and decorative art. The site also has three student features: What's the Problem? Geometry and Art Through the Ages Middle School School Version and High School School Version, and Creatures at the IMA.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Ball State University Museum of Art
You can view some of the works in the museum's collection of European and American Art, decorative arts, contemporary painting and sculpture, and ethnographic arts.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame
You will find selected works from the museum's collection of Native American, ethnographic, European and American art as well as prints and drawings, photography, modern and contemporary art, and decorative arts.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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Iowa
Des Moines Art Center
This museum features works by 20th century artists including Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter.
Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State
You can search a database for small images of European decorative arts, Asian arts, twentieth-century American prints, paintings and sculpture, works of art by significant Iowa artists, and dolls in this museum's collection.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
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Kansas
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
This museum's collection includes Asian, European, and American Art, Photography, and Works On Paper. You can view over 100 works from the museums collection. A special section, the Print Room, includes a number of online exhibits and looks at printmaking techniques and terms. Be sure to visit the
Online Resource Center where you will find education web features for children, older students, and adults.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
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Louisiana
New Orleans Museum of Art
Samples from the permanent collection and some online exhibits.
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Maine
Portland Museum of Art
The museum in Maine focuses on Western tradition in visual arts; with a special focus on Maine's artistic history. This site has online images with text for some of the art in the museum's collection. You will find works by Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Alexander Archipenko, Georges Braque, René Magritte, Winslow Homer, Robert Indiana, Andrew Wyeth, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Frederick Childe Hassam, N.C. Wyeth, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, and Marsden Hartley.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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Maryland
Baltimore Museum of Art
Learn about the Cone sisters and the art they collected. You can take a tour of some of the works they brought back with them from Paris, including works by Matisse and Picasso. You can also access an online exhibit,
Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color, and learn about the art of colored Renaissance prints. There is also a
Matisse for Kids section.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
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Massachusetts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
This museum's collection includes American paintings, decorative arts, and sculpture; Native American art; art from ancient Central and South American cultures; art of the ancient world, art form Asia, Oceania, and Africa; contemporary art; musical instruments; prints, drawings, and photographs; and textiles and fashion. You can view images of thousands of works in the museum's collection. Each work is accompanied by a brief description and you can zoom in for a closer look. You can also view works from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Harvard University Art Museums
You can view thousands of images of works from the Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger museums. The Sackler's collection includes ancient, Asian, Islamic, and later Indian art; the Fogg's collection includes Western art from the Middle School Ages to the present; and the Busch-Reisinger collection includes works from Central and Northern Europe. You will also find online exhibits and online publications.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum collection consists of works of Asian art, African art, maritime art, American decorative art, and Native American art. You can view over 1400 works from each of these collections in the museum's ARTscape section. You will also find a number of online exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Worcester Art Museum
This museum has an especially fine collection of Early American art including works by Washington Allston, Joseph Badger, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Benjamin West, and Washington Allston. You will find a timeline that places the works in historical context, detailed artist biographies, technical notes, and a discussion of the Early American works You will also find images and description over 100 works from the museum's collection of American, Ancient, European, Precolumbian, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Islamic, and Korean art. You will also find hundreds of works searchable by artist, genre, keyword, or title at the Bridges to Art site from the Worcester Museum and the College of the Holy Cross. The Bridges to Art site includes a K-12 teacher's guide with sample lesson plans.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
You can view selected images from the museum's collection of American, European, Asian, African, Latin American, and Ancient art, prints and drawings, photography, and decorative arts. You'll find works by Robert Henri, Gilbert Stuart, Frederic Edwin Church, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Peter Lely. You can also access the Five College Database, a collaborative web site with data on more than 60,000 objects from the collections of Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, the university of College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and Historic Deerfield. Not all of the object have images.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
This museum's collection includes ancient and medieval art, Renaissance art, and art from 16th-19th centuries. You can view some highlights from the museum's collection, including works by Sandro Botticelli. Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, and John Singer Sargent.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Smith College Museum of Art
You can view highlights from the museum's collection of American, African, Native American, Asian, Ancient and and European art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
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Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts
You can view works from the DIA's collection of American, African, Native American, Asian, Ancient and Islamic, European art, graphic arts, and modern and contemporary art. You will find expanded sections for American art; African, Oceanic and New World art; and Asian art; and Ancient and Islamic art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
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Minnesota
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
View over 5,000 works from the museum's collection of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; ancient art; Asian art; paintings and sculptures; photographs; textiles; prints and drawings; and design and decorative arts. Each work is accompanied by a description and you can zoom in for a closer look. You can also view works from the museum's current exhibits. The museums has an especially strong education program. Its
ArtsConnectEd web site has more than 80 online lesson plans and curriculum units for K-12 teachers as well as full-color digital images of works of art, audio and video samples, and textual information. You will also fond great educational resources in the museum's Interactive Programs section, including a site for kids, a site about myths and legends, and multimedia programs exploring the art of Asia and Modernism.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
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Mississippi
Mississippi Museum of Art
You can view a handful of works from the museum's collection of Mississippi art, American art, European art, and African and Oceanic art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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Missouri
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
You can view over 100 works by artists like Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Willem de Kooning.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
You can access online exhibits and samples from the museum's permanent collection, with an emphasis on ancient art, African art, and European and American art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
This site has samples of works from the museum's collection of American and European painting and decorative arts, Ancient art, Asian art, Oceanic art, and modern art. You'll find works by Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Marsden Hartley, Caravaggio, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Andy Warhol, and Willem de Kooning.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
The St. Louis Art Museum
You can view some samples from the museum's collection of American, European, Asian, African, and Oceanic art. You'll find works by Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claude Monet, Hans Holbein the Younger, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, and Ellsworth Kelly.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Montana
Museum of Fine Art, University of Montana
You will find images of the some of the works in the museum's collection of ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, textiles, WPA prints, bronzes and sculptures.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
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Nebraska
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
This museum's collection is consists of Ancient, European, American, Western American, and Native American art. You can access images of selected works. Each work is accompanied by a description and artist information and you can enlarge the image for a closer view. You'll find works by Jean-Baptiste Corot, Edgar Degas, El Greco, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Titian, Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Frederick Childe Hassam, Thomas Eakins, and Grant Wood. The museum also has a special section,
Kid Connection, with art projects and activities and an illustrated art thesaurus.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney
This museum's collection contains art and images and artist information from the museum's collection of art by Nebraska artists and art inspired by Nebraska. You'll find works by Albert Bierstadt, John J. Audubon, and Robert Henri.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Sheldon Memorial Art Museum and Sculpture Garden
This museum at the University of Nebraska has a large collection of 19th and 20th century American art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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Nevada
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Works in this museum's collection emphasize themes of environment and the West. You can view online past and current exhibits and view a limited number of works from the permanent collection.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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New Hampshire
The Currier Gallery of Art
The Currier's collection includes European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs, sculpture, and art by New Hampshire artist and inspired by New Hampshire. You'll find works by William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper , John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart, Andrew Wyeth, Joos van Cleve, John Constable, Jan Gossaert, Claude Monet, Laura Alma-Tadema, Albert Bierstadt, Edmund C. Tarbell, and Jasper Francis Cropsey. You'll find artist information and a description for many of the works.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Hood Museum of Art
This museum at Dartmouth College has works by American and European artists; Ancient and Asian art; as well as art from Africa, Oceania, and the New World. You can view selected objects from the permanent collection as well as images from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
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New Jersey
Montclair Art Museum
You'll find selected images of works from this museum's collection of 18th-20th century American art and Native American art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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New Mexico
Museum of International Folk Art
You can view samples from the museum's collection of Spanish colonial art, Contemporary Southwestern Hispanic art, international textiles and costumes, and world folk objects. You can also access a number of online exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
University of New Mexico Art Museum
You can view samples from the museum's collection of Old and New Spain art, prints, Old Master paintings and prints, early modern art, and contemporary art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is one of the best museum sites on the web. You can view over 3,500 works from the museum's permanent collection. Each work is accompanied by a description and you can enlarge the image for a closer view. Be sure to check out the Timeline of Art History, a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Explore and Learn section of the site lets you learn about art and artist in a number of unique ways and includes online features, a Daily Artwork Archive, and an Art in the Classroom section.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Guggenheim Museum
You can view works and read biographies for 169 artists in the museum's collection of modern and contemporary art. You can search for works by artist, movement, medium, title, or date. In addition to viewing works in the permanent collection, you can view online exhibits and web only exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Museum of Modern Art
You can view works from the museum's permanent collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Each work is accompanied by a description. You can also access a large number of online exhibits and online projects. Online projects include: Artists of Brücke: Themes in German Expressionist Prints; What is a Print?; and Art Safari Online.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
The Whitney Museum of American Art
You can view slide shows featuring the works of Edward Hopper and Louise Nevelson, take one of a series Director's Tours or visit a web feature on Jacob Lawrence designed for students.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,Buffalo, NY
The Collection Highlights section of this site was originally designed for use by elementary school teachers and students and include images of selected works, text about the work, and lesson plans. You'll find works by Romare Bearden, Max Beckmann, Eugène Delacroix, George Inness, and Gustave Courbet as well as Asian, African, and Aztec art. You can also search for other works in the museum's permanent collection and view thumbnail images.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery
You can view works from the museum's collection which features twenty-one oils and watercolors by Winslow Homer as well as early American portraits and landscapes, works form the Hudson River School and the Ash Can School, as well as works by American Impressionists. You'll find works by George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Inness, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart, Edmund Tarbell, and John Twachtman. You will also find a number of online exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
Take a virtual tour of the museum's collection of art from the 13th to the 19th century, double-click on a work and you will get a larger image, a description of the work, and an artist biography. You can also view works in the collection by type of work.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Dia
This contemporary arts organization based in New York City supports and exhibits works by contemporary artist. You will find a number of online web projects by artists a the site.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Albany Institute of History & Art
This museum's collection includes paintings from the Hudson River School, furniture, decorative arts, contemporary art, and 18th - 20th century paintings. You can view selected items from the collection.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library's collection includes drawings and prints, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books and bindings, literary and historical manuscripts, music manuscripts, and Ancient and Near Eastern seals and tablets. You can view highlights from each of the collection areas. You can also access works from past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Brooklyn Museum of Art
You can view a few images from the museum's permanent collection and images of works from current exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art
You can view over 140 works from the museum's collection of American, Asian, African, European, Ancient, New World, Judaic, 20th Century art; take a virtual tour; or view selected artwork with Shockwave.You can enlarge images for a closer view, and many objects have descriptions and artist information.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill
This museum at the University of North Carolina has online tours of some of the Ancient Mediterranean, African, American, Asian, and European works in its collection. You will fond images with descriptions for over 70 works from the museum's collection. You will also find images in the museum's current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Mint Museum
You can view a few examples of works from the museum's collections of American, African, and Spanish colonial art, as well as art of Ancient America, costumes, and decorative art. and African art. A special kid's section has online web features on the role of crafts in North Carolina history, an investigation of ancient cultures of Latin America, and an interactive exploration of clay crafts.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Duke University Museum of Art
You can view over 60 works from the museum's collection of pre-Columbian, Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval and Renaissance, Russian, African, American, and European art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art
You can view 4800 objects from the museum's collection of Asian, African, Ancient and Islamic, art of the Americas, decorative art, photography, sculpture, painting, and contemporary art. You can enlarge images for a closer view and you will find artist biographies for some artists. You can take a number of online tours including: Sister Wendy at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Early Christian and Byzantine art, Early Photographs, Egyptian art, illuminated manuscripts, and a Japanese art tour. You will also find a number of online exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
This museum's collection includes Ancient, African, Asian, and Dutch and Flemish art as well as Italian Renaissance and Baroque works, modern landscapes, Expressionism works, and art since 1945. You can view selected images of over 150 works with detailed descriptions and artist information.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
You will find images and information for 144 American artists, including Gilbert Stuart, Mary Cassatt, Benjamin West, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keefe, Jacob Lawrence, Milton Avery, and Andy Warhol.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Cincinnati Art Museum
This museum's collection includes Ancient, Medieval, African, Asian, American, and European art decorative art, textiles, costumes, and photography. You can view close to 500 works from the museum's collection. You can also take a virtual tour of the collections.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Toledo Museum of Art
This museum's collection includes Ancient, African, American, European, and Asian art as well as decorative art, graphic art, glass, and modern and contemporary art. You can view over 90 works from the collection.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Springfield Museum of Art
You can view works by over 40 artists whose works are part of the museum's permanent collection of 19th and 20th century paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture. You will also find artist biographies. Artists include Jamie Wyeth, Berenice Abbott, Rembrandt Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Henry Inman, and George Inness. You can also view works from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Akron Art Museum
This museum's web site is currently under construction.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
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Oregon
Portland Art Museum
This museum's collection includes European painting and sculpture, American painting and sculpture, English silver, Asian art, Native American art, Pre-Columbian art, Cameroon and other African art, contemporary art, sculpture, prints and drawings, and photography. You can view selected works from the collection and also view works from current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
University of Oregon Museum of Art
You will can view a view examples of works from this museum's collection of Asian, American, and European, as well as prints, drawings and photographs.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
You can view hundreds of images from this museum's extensive collection of American art including works by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Thomas P. Anshutz, Milton Avery, Charles Willson Peale, William Rush, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Maxfield Parrish, Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, and George Luks.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Philadelphia Museum of Art
You can view over 70 highlights from the museum's collection of East Asian, European, American, Indian and Himalayan art, as well as costumes, textiles, prints, photographs, and contemporary art. Each work is accompanied by a description and you can enlarge the image for a closer look. You will also find a number of online exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Andy Warhol Museum
You can create your own silkscreen online and access teaching materials.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
You can take an online tour and view images of works from the Renaissance and 17th - 20th century.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Mattress Factory
You will find overviews of works and artists in the permanent collection of this museum of contemporary art.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Puerto Rico
Museo de Arte de Ponce
You can view images of some of the works in this museum's collection of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French, English, Spanish, American, and Puerto Rican art. The site is in Spanish, though an English version is in the works and the images are labeled in both Spanish and English.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: No
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
You will find over 200 works from the museum's collection of ancient art and Asian art; costumes and textiles; decorative arts; paintings and sculpture; and drawings, prints and photographs.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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South Carolina
Columbia Museum of Art
You can view over 30 works from the museum's collection of European and American fine and decorative arts and design from the late Middle Ages to the present. You can also view works from the museum's current exhibits.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Gibbes Museum of Art
You can view over 60 works from the museum's collection of 18th, 19th and early 20th century paintings, Japanese prints and other works on paper, miniature portraits, and sculpture.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
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Tennessee
Hunter Museum of American Art
Learn about the life and work of 40 American artists including Andy Warhol, Mary Cassatt, George Bellows, Milton Avery, Albert Bierstadt, Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, and Grant Wood. You can also read a series of essays that trace the development of American art from the Colonial period to the modern era. You will also find a series of curriculum units exploring American art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: High School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
View hundreds of works from the museum's permanent collection of African sculpture, 20th century sculpture, textiles, American painting, Ancient art, Impressionist paintings, and decorative arts. Each work is accompanied by a description and you can pan and zoom for a closer look. You can view selected works though a thematic tour or you can search for works using the ArtSeach feature.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
You can view hundreds of works from the museum's collection of African art, Antiquities, Asian art, European art, Oceanic art, and Mesoamerican art. Each object is accompanied by a detailed description. You will also find a number of online web features for current and past exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Nasher Sculpture Center
If you like modern sculpture, this is the site for you! You'll find works by Alexander Calder, Magdelena Abakanowicz, Alexander Archipenko, Carl Andre, Georges Braque, Anthony Caro, Willem DeKooning, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, Jasper Johns, Barbara Hepworth, Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Lipski, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Frank Stella, and Richard Serra.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Dallas Museum of Art
This museum's collection includes ancient Mediterranean, Asian, Pacific, European, African, and American art as well as art of the Americas, decorative art, and contemporary art. You can view over 30 works with descriptions from the collection. Online teaching packets include lessons, activities, background materials and additional images of works.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
You can works by over 120 artists from the museum's collection of post World War II art. You can also view images form current exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont
You can view a few images of works in the museum's collection and in its current exhibits.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Utah
Utah Museum of Fine Art
You can view works from the museum's collection of American, European, Asian, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, American Indian, Pre-Columbian, and Oceanic art. The site also features an number of artist, art, and cultural profiles.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Springville Museum of Art, Springville
You can view works from the museum's collection of Utah and Russian art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: No
Searchable: Yes
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Virginia
Chrysler Museum of Fine Arts
This museum's collection includes American and European paintings and sculptures, 20th century works, decorative arts, glass, and photography. You'll find works by John Singleton Copley, Edward, Hicks, Benjamin West, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Filippino Lippi, Jan Gossaert, Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Gainsborough, Diego Velazquez, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, and Franz Kline. You will also find downloadable teacher packets, online tours, a work of the month feature, an
Art in Context web site that allows you to explore a work in detail.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond
You can view over 100 works from the museum's collection of African, Ancient American, Ancient, East Asian, Himalayan, South Asian, Byzantine and Medieval art as well as American and European decorative art, painting and sculpture, and modern and contemporary art. You will also find a number of online exhibits including: The Art of Ancient Mali, George Catlin: The Medicine Painter, Migration and the African-American Family, Ancient Egypt, Two Views of Kabuki: Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints, and Worlds of Wonder and Desire: Indian Paintings.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
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Washington
Seattle Art Museum
This museum's collection includes African, Oceanic, Ancient, Asian, European, Native American, and modern and contemporary art. You can search the collection for images of more than 12,000 works in the collection. You can search by artist, medium, date, or title of work. You will also find a number of educational interactive web sites designed for classroom use that have online art tours and interactive games, lesson plans and art activities, background information, and discussion ideas.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee Museum of Art
You can view 40 works from the museum's collection of Ancient, Early European, American, modern and contemporary art; prints and drawings; photography; and Asian, African, Haitian, and folk and self-taught art.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: No
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Wyoming
National Wildlife Museum
You can view 164 works and read biographies for over 100 artists, including Ansel Adams, John James Audubon, John Woodhouse Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, William Merritt Chase, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, George Stubbs, Jamie Wyeth, and N. C. Wyeth. You will also find a number of lessons and units of study on the site.
Intended Audience: General
Reading Level: Middle School
Teacher Section: Yes
Searchable: Yes
