Museums and Galleries

Florence Art Guide
www.mega.it/eng/egui/hogui.htm
View the art and architecture of beautiful Florence. A "clickable" map of the city provides easy navigation.
Global Children's Art Gallery
www.naturalchild.com/gallery/
This site makes the most of a simple idea: Let children from around the world submit their artwork, and display the pictures in an online gallery. Children ages one through twelve have posted their work, and free scanning is provided if needed.
Guggenheim Collection Online
www.guggenheim.org/
The Guggenheim Collection Online contains a selection of 273 works of art from the New York museum's holdings. Representing 124 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and the new. Each work may be viewed at small, medium, or large resolution, and is accompanied by insightful commentary. The site also includes additional scholarly and contextual information, such as artist biographies, definitions of art-historical terms, concepts on art, and suggested readings, all of which form a searchable database.
Interactive Art Adventures
www.surfnetkids.com/interactiveart.htm
While some art museums are content to simply post photographs of their artwork online, Interactive Art Adventures lists virtual museums that have gone beyond "photo and post" to create interactive exhibits. From writing activities, to games and curator-lead video tours, these sites bring art to the Web in a whole new way.
J. Paul Getty Museum
www.getty.edu/
The J. Paul Getty Museum's interactive Web site provides a variety of resources and services for K-12 teachers and students, including reference materials for educators that help teachers integrate art in the Museum with their classroom curriculum.
Kentucky's Museums
www.worldartantiques.com/Kentucky.html
This website contains a list of Kentucky's museums, providing important contact information and links to museum sites on the internet.
The Louvre
www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
A medieval fortress, the palace of the kings of France, and a museum for the last two centuries, the architecture of the Louvre bears witness to more than 800 years of history and incorporates works dating from the birth of the great antique civilizations right up to the first half of the XIXth century. This mega-site introduces the student to the Louvre's vast collections through educational materials and virtual tours of the museum's priceless artwork.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org/
About 3,500 objects-fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire department of European Paintings-can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword. You may also explore other works from the Met's collection by taking the director's tour; viewing some of the Museum's recent acquisitions; or by visiting the Timeline of Art History, the Period Rooms: Virtual Reality Tour, or the Provenance Research Project.
Museum of International Folk Art
www.moifa.org/past/index.htm
Museum of International Folk Art at the Museum of New Mexico has a wonderful set of on-line exhibits.
Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
The Museum of Modern Art was the first museum to devote its programs and collection entirely to the modern movement, and the quality and diversity of the Museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art.
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
The National Gallery of Art provides a mega-site for arts resources. Offering online tours of exhibitions, galleries, and the National Sculpture Garden, the site also offers a plethora of educational resources.
NGA Kids
www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
NGA Kids is a Web site powered by the National Gallery of Art, geared towards elementary school students. The NGA Kids Web site features an animated tour of the National Sculpture Garden and Adventures with Arts, a storytelling approach to art, as well as numerous resources for teachers.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
www.nmaa.si.edu/
The Smithsonian American Art Museum Web site offers online exhibits, tools for teachers and students and other initiatives which celebrate the role of American art in American culture and history. A must see!!
Smithsonian Institution
www.si.edu
The Smithsonian Institution Web site provides an enormous amount of resources dealing with culture and the arts.
WebMuseum
www.ibiblio.org/wm/
Visit the WebMuseum network. View the work of Paul Cezanne or Art of the 20th Century.