Museums

Cambridge Academic Links

Museums and Galleries, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Museums and Galleries

See also links to Online Galleries, Art in Britain,
Historical Image Collections, Architectural Images

For Natural History Museums, see Earth Sciences
For Science Museums, see History of Science

(Links on other sites:
Art Museums Worldwide
Image Archive: selected museums
Sacred Destinations (sites)
Moving Postcards (videos by city)
Arounder: panoramas by city)

Note also these Large Online Art Archives
For 150 image collections, including HD images, see ARTstor
For 125,000 open-access images of oil paintings in British art galleries, see the Your Paintings PCF archive
For 746,000 open-access images of art in historic English homes, see National Trust Art Collections

Museum Blogs: CultureGrrl (Lee Rosenbaum), Museum Musings (Julian Bickersteth)
UK Museum News: The Art Fund, Culture 24, Museums Association , Culture Cuts (blog: Mark Brown)

(This listing includes major museums worldwide, and also British museums which have substantial collections of art.
HD Images of notable buildings, such as churches and cathedrals, are also listed here, rather than on the Visual Art page,
because listing by location makes them easier to find.

Museum-specific open-access image collections, many HD, are highlighted. Most of these are part of the Google Art Project
which now includes images from 151 galleries, and supplementary videos (click on 'Details' next to each work's title).
Viewing GAP requires a broadband connection and an updated web browser with cookies enabled.)

Scroll down, or Jump: to C, to F, to L, to N, to R, to T


Amsterdam
		Rijksmuseum (1,000 Exhibits, Google)
		Van Gogh Museum (Google)
Ann Arbor	
		Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Antwerp
		Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Athens
		National Gallery
		National Archaeological Museum
		Numismatic Museum
		Acropolis Museum (Google)
		Acropolis (Virtual Tour)
		Parthenon Frieze (Flash presentation)
Atlanta
		Michael C Carlos Museum
Baghdad
		Virtual Museum of Iraq (CNR)
Baltimore
		Museum of Art
		Walters Art Museum (with high-quality downloadable images)
Barcelona
		Sagrada Familia (click Visita Virtual)
		Gaudí's Buildings (images)
Bath
		Holburne Museum (British, Flemish, Dutch: artists)
Beijing
		Palace Museum
		National Museum of China
Berlin
		Bauhaus-archiv museum für gestaltung (design)
		Gemäldegalerie (Google)
		Neues Museum (with virtual tour)
		Pergamon Museum
Belfast
		Ulster Museum (art, archaeology, natural history)
Birmingham
		Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Renaissance to Impressionist)
		Museums and Art Gallery (art, applied arts, archaeology)
Boston
		Museum of Fine Arts
		Gardner Museum
Brighton
		Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (Dutch and British, 
		important collection from Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania)
Brisbane
		Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art
Brussels
		Royal Museums of Fine Arts
Budapest
		Museum of Fine Arts
Cairo
		Egyptian Museum
Cambridge
		Fitzwilliam Museum (art and archaeology)
		Kettle's Yard (early Modernist art)
		Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Facebook)
		Museum of Classical Archaeology (Casts)
Cambridge MA
		Harvard Art Museums (Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Sackler)
Canberra
		National Gallery of Australia (Australian, Asian, international)
Cardiff
		National Museum of Wales (Italian, French, Dutch, and
		British paintings, drawings, watercolours: artist search)
Chicago
		Art Institute of Chicago (Google)
		Oriental Institute Museum
Compton, Guildford
		Watts Gallery (works by or associated with GF Watts: images)
Copenhagen
		Statens Museum for Kunst (Google)
Doha
		Museum of Islamic Art
Dresden
		Dresden State Art Collections
Dublin
		National Gallery of Ireland (Old masters, Irish art)
		National Museum of Ireland (decorative arts, archaeology, natural history)
		City Gallery The Hugh Lane (Irish, modern British, European)
Dunsyre, Lanarkshire
		Little Sparta (IH Finlay's garden)
Durham
		Bowes Museum (French-style chateau: French, Italian, Spanish, British art)
Edinburgh
		National Galleries of Scotland (Renaissance to modern, Scottish)
		National Museum of Scotland (archaeology, ethnography, natural history)
Florence
		All Museums (Uffizi, Google)
Frankfurt
		Museum für Angewandte Kunst (applied arts)
Ghent
		St Bavo's Cathedral (Panoramic Image)
		Ghent Altarpiece (Hubrecht & Jan Van Eyck, HD images, history)
Glasgow
		Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery (European and Scottish art, armour)
		Hunterian Museum (Old Masters, 18th C British, archaeology, natural history)
Granada
		Alhambra Palace Museum
Hull
		Ferens Art Gallery (Italian, Dutch, French, British)
Istanbul
		Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace (panoramas: view online or downloadable)
Jerusalem
		Israel Museum
Kansas City
		Nelson-Atkins Museum
Kyoto
		National Museum
Lascaux
		Lascaux Cave (Palaeolithic parietal art: vitual tour. The cave is now closed to visitors)
Leeds
		Leeds Art Gallery (20th century British)
Leicester
		New Walk Museum and Gallery (British and German Expressionist)
Lille
		Palais des Beaux Arts
Lisbon
		Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
		Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
Liverpool
		Lady Lever Art Gallery (Victorian and Edwardian)
		Walker Art Gallery (European and British, Google)
		Tate Liverpool
London
		British Museum: Sitemap 
		  (Galleries, images, blog, videos, talks)
		Courtauld Institute (collection, blog)
		Dulwich Picture Gallery (European and British: Google)
		Imperial War Museum (images)
		Leighton House Museum (Victorian and Islamic)
		National Gallery (Room by Room, Google, videos , YouTube)
		National Portrait Gallery 
		Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (University College)
		Royal Academy of Arts (exhibitions)
		Royal Collection (Renaissance, Old Masters)
		Saatchi Gallery (exhibitions of contemporary UK, US, and EU art)
		Serpentine Gallery (summer exhibitions of contemporary art)
		Sir John Soane's Museum (a gem)
		South London Gallery (contemporary exhibitions, small 19th C & modern collection)
		Tate Gallery (past exhibitions, Tate Britain)
		Victoria and Albert (applied arts: sculpture, cast courts, videos, vimeo)
		Wallace Collection (French, Dutch, Italian)
		St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey (virtual tours)
Los Angeles
		J Paul Getty Museum (collections, Google)
		Watts Towers (Sam Rodia)
Madrid
		Museo del Prado (collections)
		Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Renaissance and Impressionist) 
		Museo Reina Sofia (modern Spanish)
Manchester
		Manchester Art Gallery (Pre-Raphaelite, British and European from 17th C)
Melbourne
		National Gallery of Victoria (Google)
Milan
		Pinacoteca di Brera
		Santa Maria delle Grazie
		(Last Supper: watermarked HD image,
		Giampietrino's Copy in Oxford)
		Castello Sforzesco (Sala delle Asse, panorama)
Minneapolis
		Walker Art Center
Moscow
		State Tretyakov Gallery
		Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Google)
		Moscow Metro (a subterranean museum)
Munich
		Bavarian National Museum
Nanjing
		Nanjing Museum
Naples
		Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte
Newcastle
		Laing Art Gallery (19th and 20th century British)
New Haven
		Yale Center for British Art (Google)
New Delhi
		National Museum
New York
		Frick Collection
		Guggenheim
		Metropolitan Museum of Art (Google)
		  (Departments, The Printed Image in the West)
		MOMA (Google)
Norwich
		Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts
Oslo
		National Museum
Oxford
		Ashmolean Museum
		  (Beazley Archive: classical and Casts)
		  (Islamic and Eastern Art)
		Pitt-Rivers Museum (Virtual Tour)
		All Museums
		Virtual Tour
Paris
		Louvre (Collections, 19 HD Images, 15 works described )
		Musée D'Orsay (Google)
		Musée Rodin
		Ecole des Beaux Arts (small images)
Philadelphia
		Barnes Foundation (esp. Impressionist: small images of highlights)
		Philadelphia Museum of Art
		Pennsylvania University Archaeology Museum
Pisa
		Piazza dei Miracoli (videos)
		Panoramas
Pittsburgh
		Carnegie Museum of Art
Prague
		National Gallery
Preston
		Harris Museum (British art)
Rio de Janeiro
		Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (contemporary exhibitions)
Rome
		Museums, Sculptures
		Galleria Borghese
		Sistine Chapel (zoomable panorama )
		  (Diagrams and Descriptions)
		Vatican Egyptian Museum
		Vatican Etruscan Museum
		Panoramas
Roslin, Midlothian
		Rosslyn Chapel (altar: panoramas)
St Petersburg
		The Hermitage (Collections, Google)
San Francisco
		Legion of Honor
Sarasota, Florida
		Ringling Museum of Art (images)
Sheffield
		Graves Gallery (British, Spanish, Dutch, Italian)
Southampton
		City Art Gallery (Renaissance to modern)
Stockholm
		National Museum
Stromness, Orkney
		Piers Art Centre (St Ives School)
Sydney
		Art Gallery of NSW
		Powerhouse Museum (applied arts and science)
Tashkent
		Museum of Applied Art
Thessaloniki
		Archaeological Museum
Tokyo
		National Museum
		National Art Center (exhibitions)
Toronto
		Art Gallery of Ontario (Images)
Turin
		Museo Egizio (Egyptian antiquities)
Venice
		Accademia
		Guggenheim
		Panoramas
Versailles
		Versailles Palace (Google)
Vienna
		Kunsthistorisches Museum (Sculpture & Decorative, Google)
		Museum für Angewandte Kunst (applied arts)
Wakefield
		Hepworth Wakefield (Hepworth, Moore, and
		contemporaries, 19th century Yorkshire landscapes)
Walsall
		New Art Gallery (Impressionists, English Romantics, 
		Victorians, Epstein, modern prints)
Warsaw
		National Museum
Washington DC
		Smithsonian Museums (Freer Gallery)
		National Gallery of Art (Google, NGA Images)
		Corcoran Gallery of Art
York
		York Art Gallery (British and European from 17th C)
Zagreb
		Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters

Archaeology & Cultural Heritage

News: Archaeology (AIA)
Archaeology News Network
National Geographic, Science Daily
Guardian, NY Times
Heritage Key (news on the Ancient World)
Classical Archaeology News (blog: Francesca Tronchin)
Portable Antiquity Collecting & Heritage Issues (international trade: Paul Barford)

Theft, Looting, the Law
International Council of Museums, Interpol, FBI
Looting Matters (with newsfeeds: David Gill), Art Hostage (international news)
Saving Antiquities (US perspective), The Punching Bag (Larry Rothfield, with newsfeeds)
Cultural Property and Archaeology Law (US and international: Kim Alderman)
Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)
Fine Art Registry (Theresa Franks: art fraud)

Resources

UNESCO (World Heritage Centre)
JStor (Journals Archive )
- British Museum
- British Historical Societies (links)
  - Departments Birmingham, Bradford (Biological Anthropology)
  - Cambridge (Classical), Durham, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool
  - Nottingham, Oxford (Oxford Archaeology Group)
  - Queens Belfast (archaeology & palaeography), Reading
  - Sheffield, Southampton, UCL Institute for Archaeology, York
  - UK Archaeology Departments (rankings: Guardian)
Archaeological Institute of America
US Cultural Heritage Center
UCSB (Introduction to Archaeology)
- Departments AIA Graduate Program Directory
- Selected Departments: Oriental Institute, Chicago
- Columbia (with links to excavations)
- NYU: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
- Kelsey Museum (fieldwork)

European Resources are given below under Europe

Fieldwork & Sites

UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Google Map)
Global Heritage Fund (19 major sites in Asia and South America)
World Heritage: ePrints (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
See also Maps
- Image collections: Sacred Destinations
- Ancient Wisdom (interesting enthusiast's site)
- Mosaic Atlas, Ancient Mosaics
- Patrimonium Mundi (panophotos of selected UNESCO Sites)
  - Marine Archaeology
  - Bournemouth, Nottingham, Southampton
  - Franck Goddio Society (Alexandria and other locations)
  - French Underwater Archaeology
  - Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology

Egyptian & Near Eastern Archaeology

ABZU: Resources for the Ancient Near East (Chicago)
AERA (Mark Lehner, Giza Plateau projects; Chicago)
American Research Center in Egypt
Amheida (Trimithis) Excavations (NYU, Columbia)
Dakhleh Oasis Excavations (Monash)
British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Egyptology (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Digital Egypt for Universities (UCL)
Institut français d'archéologie orientale (Cairo)
Digital Karnak (UCLA)
Zahi Hawass (Egyptian Minister of Antiquities)
Pyramids (PBS)
Step Pyramid at Djoser (Pennsylvania)
For construction theories, Parry (rolling), Davidovitz/
Morris (geopolymers), and Dunn (power tools), see Wikipedia, and Google
Mesopotamia (British Museum: with ziggurats)
Theban Mapping Project
Livius (ancient history site, including ziggurats)
Reshafim Egypt Site (history, dynasties, culture)
Digital Karnak (PDF: construction methods)
Columns (Images, Summary of Types)

European Archaeology & Cultural Heritage

Fasti Online (AIAC: European Excavations)
Megalithic Portal (wide-area maps)
British Museum Bronze Age Review
Roman Provincial Coinage Project (Oxford, producing a typology: in progress)
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome (Buffalo)
Chiron Web (Flikr: Classical art and architecture)
For theatres, see classical drama
- ArchDATA and Archéophile (links)
- Musée d'Archéologie Nationale
- Carnac (historical images and information)
  - Archäologie Online
Ancient Greece (Thomas Sakoulas), Greek Museums, NY Times
Acropolis: Museum, British Museum, Committee for Reunification
Ancient Athens (image archive at Kentucky)
Corinthian Matters (David Pettegrew)
Archaeology for Amateurs: The Mysteries of Crete (Oxford)
National Archive of Monuments (virtual exhibitions)
Pavlopetri (Nottingham)
Sphakia Survey (Oxford)
Greek Culture in the US (useful news source)
See also Classical Departments and British Historical Societies
- Archaeogate (Italian Archaeology)
- Il Giornale dell' Arte (news)
- Italia Nostra (environmental & cultural heritage agency)
- Roma Aeterna (Domenico Carro)
- Aquae Urbis Romae (Virginia: Katherine Rinne)
- Baroque Rome (Maps, Texts, : Roberto Piperno)
- Ostia Antica (Rome's ancient port)
- Gazetteer of Italy (Maps, Texts, ; Chicago: Bill Thayer)
- Digital Roman Forum (UCLA)
- Venice in Peril (London)
- Future Venice (UCL)
  - Council for British Archaeology (outreach)
  - Portable Antiquities Scheme (Blogs)
  - Current Archaeology
  - Rescue (British Archaeological Trust)
  - UK Stone Circles (photographs)
  - Heritage Journal (conservation of sites)
  - Royal Archaeological Institute
  - Society for Medieval Archaeology
  - Oxford Celtic Coin Index
  - Silchester (Reading)
  - Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics
  - Stonehenge: Map, Riverside Project
  - Acoustics of Stonehenge (Salford)