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General museums pages

• World Wide Arts Resources: Museums Museums and archives, by collection, country or historical period
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums of all kinds - not just art
• MUSÉE: directory of museums worldwide Not just art museums. Searchable by name, place, subject etc
• Museums of the World New!
• CODART Worldwide list of museums with significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art.  Also includes a calendar of exhibitions, congresses and other events concerning Dutch and Flemish art
• Museums and the Web: an international conference held annually since 1997
  • Best of the Web Prizewinning museum websites since 1997 from the competitions organized by the Museums and the Web conference

North American museums

Canadian museums

• Canadian museums and galleries
• Virtual Museum Canada
• Artefacts Canada  Collection records and images from museums across Canada
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• National Gallery of Canada
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

US museums: general

• ArtScene: the guide to art galleries and museums in Southern California

Individual US museums - alphabetically

• American Museum of Photography
• Art Institute of Chicago
  • Cleo: a multimedia guide to the ancient world Guide to the collection of ancient art at AIC
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with an image database of the museums' collection: 75,000 images
• Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
• The Getty Center, Los Angeles
  • Architecture of the Getty Center large collection of high-quality images
• Guggenheim Museum
• Harvard University Art Museums
• Heard Museum, Phoenix: Native cultures and art
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
• LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The (Pierpont) Morgan Library, New York
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
• SFMOMA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Smithsonian Institution
  • Archives of American Art
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / Freer Gallery of Art
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Whitney Museum of American Art:  now back online
• Early American paintings in the Worcester Art Museum New!
• Yale Center for British Art

British museums

Guides to museums

• 24 hour museum Access to over 2000 museums, art galleries, historic houses and heritage attractions
• Open.gov.uk: public sector art galleries and museums
• Art Guide: the art lover's guide to Britain and Ireland guide to public art collections in Britain and Ireland: museums guide, artists on view, what's on, maps, visitors' forum
• NICE: National Inventory of Continental European Paintings  New!   Database of paintings in British public collections
  

Guides to exhibitions and prizes

• The Gallery Channel UK exhibitions archive - search by artist, gallery, exhibition
• new exhibitions of contemporary art Lists exhibitions throughout Britain
• CyberAxis "A 3-D virtual gallery space for debate, presentation and interaction"
• Turner Prize  the Tate Gallery site. Includes a history of the prize and lists of the shortlisted artists

Organizations, official sites

• Government Art Collection Catalogue of works of art displayed in government buildings
• National Art Collections Fund New! UK art charity helping museums acquire art works
• Museums Association
• MDA: Museums Documentation Association
• National Museum Directors' Conference
• Spoliation of works of art during the Holocaust and World War II period First progress report on provenance research for the period 1933-1945.

London museums

• Barbican City of London arts centre
• The British Museum
  • The British Museum: Compass Database of c. 3000 objects from the British Museum's collections
• Courtauld Institute of Art: Art & Architecture  New!  40,000 images online
• Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Geffrye Museum
• Guildhall Art Gallery
  • Collage: database of 20,000 images from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery
• Hayward Gallery  part of the South Bank Centre site
• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
• Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA)   New!
• Museum of London
• National Gallery
  • Micro Gallery guide to the National Gallery's multimedia tour
• National Portrait Gallery
• Art at the Natural History Museum   New!
• Royal Academy of Arts
  • Royal Academy of Arts Collection    Works of art, books and archives.  Jan 2011: now includes Winter Exhibition catalogues 1870-1913 in full text
    
• The Royal Collection
• Royal Holloway, University of London: Virtual Picture Gallery  New!  
  
• Serpentine Gallery
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Tate Gallery New website for the two London sites, Liverpool and St Ives
  • Tate Modern: press comments on the opening from ArtsJournal.com
• The Victoria & Albert Museum
  • The British Galleries at the V&A  2000 images online
• The Wallace Collection
• Whitechapel Art Gallery

Other English museums

• Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
• Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford
• Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Arts and Crafts Museum, Cheltenham Museums and Art Gallery  New!
• Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
• Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
• IKON Gallery, Birmingham
• The Lowry, Manchester
• Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
• National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
• Southampton City Art Gallery
• University of Warwick Art   New!  Web access to the 750 artworks owned by the university
• The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Scotland and Wales

• National Galleries of Scotland
• CCA, Glasgow New!
• Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
• National Museums and Galleries of Wales

Irish museums

• National Gallery of Ireland
• Irish Museum of Modern Art

Austrian museums

• Albertina, Wien (Vienna) also in English
• Museumsquartier Wien New! Cultural quarter of Vienna. Still under construction. Site also in English
• Kunsthalle Wien Also in English
• Kunsthistorisches Museum
• Leopold Museum
• Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig In English or German

 

Dutch museums

• AKKA Exhibitions Amsterdam New! Listings of galleries and exhibitions
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam 
  
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
• Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
• Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Website for the Stedelijk's project space - good for information on contemporary artists

French museums

• Réunion des Musées Nationaux
• Réunion des Musées Nationaux: agence photographique New! Images of 100,000 works held in RMN museums
• Muséofile: site officiel des musées français Details of over 1000 French museums
• JOCONDE database of 130,000 drawings, prints, art objects etc since the 7th century held in over 70 French museums. Contains only out-of-copyright images
• The age of Enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums
• Musées de Paris Parisian museums indexed by name, by arrondissement or metro station, and by subject
• Paris Tourist Office click on Préparez votre séjour, Monuments et Musées
• Calendrier de Paris / Paris calendar Calendar of exhibitions day by day
• Musée du Louvre The official site. For an alternative view try here. Both sites are in French and English
• Musée d'Orsay
• Centre Pompidou
• Musée Marmottan Monet
• Musée Rodin

German museums

• Virtual Library Museums: Germany German-language version here
• Virtual Library Museen Museum-related pages in German
• german galleries with indexes by city, by gallery, by artist. In English
• Kultur pur Galleries, museums, concerts etc
• Museen und Ausstellungen im deutschsprachigen Raum
• Links zu Museen from the Deutsches Historisches Museum
• Museen in Bayern
• bauhaus-archiv museum für gestaltung Also in English
• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Das Städel: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
• ZKM: Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
• Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
• Kunsthalle Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
  • documenta details of this influential series of exhibitions of modern art, including no. 12 (June-September 2007)
    
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg New!

Italian museums

• The Florence art guide
• Museums and monuments in Florence
• Galleria degli Uffizi - the official site. English version here
• Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue Includes images of 400 of the gallery's 505 paintings
• MIMU: Milano Musei Access to the c. 40 museums in Milan
• Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan Inventory-Catalogue of the drawings: entries for 5,825 of the 12,000 drawings available online. But access to the images has been suspended until further notice
• Museums in Rome
• Vatican Museums Online
• Vatican Museums: 596 images from the Christus Rex site
• Polo Museale Veneziano   New!  Includes links to the Accademia, Cà d'Oro, Palazzo Grimani and others
  
• Musei Civici Veneziani  New!  Includes the Palazzo Ducale and the Museo Correr
• Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia  New!
• Museo della Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
• Palazzo Grassi, Venice

Other European museums

• Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp in Flemish or English
• Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
• Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie / National Museum in Warsaw
• Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie   New !  also in English
  
• Museums of Russia
• Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow - the official site
• State Historical Museum, Moscow   Only in Russian
• State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg   New!  In Russian and English
  
• Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
• Museo del Prado the English page
• Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais

Far Eastern museums

• Kyoto National Museum, Japan "one of the best East Asian art collections on the Internet"
• Tokyo National Museum New!