NW ARTS - NATIONAL MUSEUMS

ArtNet is an extensive online service for the art world, with up-to-date and comprehensive, searchable databases of auction records, gallery exhibitions and artists' portfolios, as well as international museum links and artfair Web sites - all with full-color reproductions - ArtNet offers World Wide Web users powerful tools and extensive up-to-date resources.

Art Museum Image Consortium a digital image library of works from leading international museums.

Art Museum Network launched by Maxwell Anderson of the Whitney Museum in NYC, links North American museums and their audiences.

Galleries & Museums YellowPages

Getty Art History Information Program this site contains provenance information about well-known works of art. It also has a searchable version of the Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals.

Mattress Factory a research and development lab for artists. As a museum of contemporary art, it commissions new site-specific works, presents them to the widest possible audience, and maintains selected individual installations in a distinctive permanent collection. (Pittsburg, PA)

Metropolitan Museum of Art World Wide Arts Resources provides the largest and most comprehensive gateway to the arts on the Internet, including a huge database of Visual Arts links for Museums, Galleries, Artists, Arts Agencies, and lots more. A major resource!

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Modern Art, New York

The National Gallery of Art A huge site with tons of great artwork, extremely high quality site.

National Museum for Women in the Arts promotes the work of American visual artists, both past and present.(Washington, DC)

Smithsonian Institute this site links to the many museums of the Smithsonian. Walk through the galleries, and get current ticket and hours information.

Whitney Museum New York City, showing the work of North American modern and contemporary artists. They also have a big list of links to other national museums: Museums & other art on the web.