Art Student Resources

Louvre Museumby Musée du Louvre Ages: 4+The Louvre has dominated central Paris since the late 12th century. The original structure was gradually engulfed as the city grew. The dark fortress of the early days was transformed into the modernized dwelling of Francois I.Subjects: Paris, contemporary, European culture, antiquities, film, lectures, music

CGFA- A Virtual Art Museumby Carol Gerten-Jackson Ages: 5+A Virtual Art Museum is an extensive broad gallery database containing digital images of paintings, drawings, and etchings that are images from hundreds of well-known American, French, Spanish, and Dutch artists.Subjects: online, virtual, paintings, exhibits, museum

Art Cyclopediaby John Malyon Ages: 10+The guide to great art on the Internet. Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. An index to over 2,300 art sites, offering over 95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks.Subjects: index, news, museums, history, artists, gallery, search engine

Harvard Art Museumsby President and Fellows of Harvard College Ages: 4+The comprehensive selection of painting from the Harvard Art Museum's three constituent museums, the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum are just a start to what they have to offer.Subjects: painting, sculpting, study centers, music, Cambridge, culture

The Museum of Modern Artby The Museum of Modern Art Ages: 5+The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art.Subjects: drawings, architecture, landscape, contemporary, New York

Art Museums Worldwideby John Malyon Ages: 12+Museums with fine art collections and an online presence. We have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.Subjects: guide, online, art, exhibit, interactive map

Grand Rapids Art Museumby Grand Rapids Art Museum Ages: 4+The mission is to provide a gathering place where people of all ages and backgrounds can enrich their lives through interaction with authentic works of art of the finest quality in a thought-provoking and creative way.Subjects: music, art studio, tours, jazz, Michigan

Museums by Patrick Young Ages: 8+This is an extensive list of museums in the Eastern Hemisphere, Europe, Canada, and the United States that has been put together by the Director of Exhibitions and Communications at the University of Michigan.Subjects: online, historical, virtual tours, links, museum

Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscoby Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Ages: 4+Comprising the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, we are the largest public arts institution in the City of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in the United States.Subjects: after school programs, Egyptians, European, painting, sculpting

Miami Art Museumby Miami-Dade County Ages: 4+MAM offers free public and private school tours for students and resources for teachers. These interactive tours are designed to develop an understanding of modern and contemporary art while encouraging self-expression at every grade level.Subjects: Western Hemisphere, historical, paintings, drawings, sculpture, Florida

Museums and Art Galleries on the Webby Bert Christensen Ages: 5+This is a list of links to museums, art galleries, and fine art institutes that can be found online.Subjects: online, virtual, paintings, galleries, museum

Ann Arbor Art Centerby Ann Arbor Art Center Ages: 4+The Ann Arbor Art Center is the region's premier local art center, with an exciting Exhibition Calendar, a full range of art classes for all ages, and a Gallery Shop featuring the best of one-of-a-kind and artist-designed gifts from throughout the region.Subjects: fine art, Michigan, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture

Carnegie Museum of Artby Carnegie Museum of Art Ages: 6+The Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works. Other collections of note include works of American art from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...Subjects: history, architectural, center, collection, Pittsburg

Detroit Institute of Artby The Detroit Institute of Arts Ages: 4+From the first painting donated in 1883, our collection of over 60,000 works brings the culture and creativity of the world to Detroit's doorstep. Ranging from classic to cutting-edge, the works offered will challenge perceptions and enrich perspectives.Subjects: Michigan, prints, drawings, photographs, American, European, contemporary

Kimbell Art Museumby Kimbell Art Museum Ages: 4+The collection comprises Asian and non-Western as well as European art, and extends only to the mid-20th century in recognition that this is where the collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth begins.Subjects: painting, Fort Worth, Renaissance, culture, antiquities

National Gallery of Artby National Gallery of Art  Ages: 4+The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown. Mr. Mellon's hope that the new National Gallery would attract gifts from other collectors was soon realized...Subjects: sculpture, paintings, landscape, Washington, DC, Congress

Seattle Art Museumby Seattle Art Museum Ages: 3+Dr. Richard E. Fuller forged a critical partnership with the City of Seattle, donating the funds and much of his extensive Chinese and Japanese art collection to create the Seattle Art Museum, with the provision that the city would maintain the facility.Subjects: Washington, collections, modern, contemporary, Asian, Native American

The Metropolitan Museum of Artby Metropolitan Museum of Art Ages: 5+The Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site features information on upcoming museum events, fine art exhibits, special exhibitions, the Met collection and art galleries online.Subjects: Manhattan, gallery, exhibitions, collection, fine art, New York

Art and Contemporary Artby World Wide Arts Resources Corporation Ages: 6+Selling contemporary art, fine art and offering artwork by thousands of contemporary artists and galleries. Offering daily international art news and a large art history site with over 22,000 art history artists, artwork, biographies and images.Subjects: contemporary, artists, history, fine arts, gallery, fine arts

Flint Institute of Artsby The Flint Institute of Arts Ages: 3+The museum's permanent collection includes more than 7,000 works of art, many of which are by renowned artists from the past and present, including collections of world art that includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts.Subjects: European, Asian, abstract, expressionist, Michigan, contemporary

Kresge Art Museumby The Art Museum at MSU Ages: 4+Founded in 1959, houses Michigan State University's collection of over 7,000 works of art, that span 5,000 years of human history and include representative examples of works of art from ancient Cycladic figures to contemporary mixed media installations.Subjects: artifacts, paintings, sculptures, East Lansing, modern, contemporary

Magidson Fine Artby Magidson Fine Art Ages: 4+Magidson Fine Art, Inc. has brought the finest in contemporary and modern art to the western United States. Some exhibitions have included: Marc Chagall paintings, Picasso drawings, Annie Leibovitz photographs, Ferdinand Botero paintings...Subjects: Aspen, painting, sculpture, mixed media, local artists

National Gallery of Canadaby The National Gallery of Canada Ages: 5+The National Gallery of Canada strives to provide Canadians with a sense of identity and pride in Canada's rich visual arts heritage and to make art accessible, meaningful and vital to diverse audiences of all ages.Subjects: Ottawa, Raphael, Carracci, contemporary, prints, drawings

Tate Onlineby Tate Ages: 5+Tate's mission is drawn from the 1992 Museums and Galleries Act, and is to increase public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day and of international modern and contemporary art.Subjects: London, British art, modern, contemporary, music

The Art Institute of Chicagoby The Art Institute of Chicago Ages: 3+The Art Institute of Chicago houses a collection of plaster casts that now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world, and the school's graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country.Subjects: Illinois, contemporary, renaissance, medieval, Indian, ancient

The Dennos Museum Centerby Dennos Museum Center Ages: 4+The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College is a premier cultural facility in northern Michigan offering a dynamic array of exhibitions and programs in the visual arts, sciences and performing arts.Subjects: hands-on, Traverse City, sculpture, Discovery, collectors, outdoor

The Museum Of Bad Artby The Museum Of Bad Art Ages: 8+This is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory.Subjects: portraits, landscapes, drawings, Massachusetts, gallery

The Rooms Provincial Art Galleryby Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador Ages: 12+The gallery exhibits original visual art, does research, provides education about art, and is responsible for permanent art collections held in trust for the public.Subjects: digital collection, provincial, archives, gallery, education

Urban Institute for Contemporary Artsby Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Ages: 5+Michigan's largest multidisciplinary contemporary arts center has grown to fit the 28,000-square-foot facility housing five galleries, a 165-seat theatre, performing and visual arts studios, a community dark room and a community ceramics studio.Subjects: visual art, music, film, literature, dance, performing art, Grand Rapids