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A searchable directory to museums in the United States

A list of Art museum throughout the world with a web presence

Online Art and Architecture resources, including libraries, artist's projects, events, image collections, new media, vendor information, programs, art journals, electronic exhibitions, museum information, and art organizations.

The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recognizes that individuals, societies, and the natural environment are linked through design.

National Gallery of Art teaching resource features essays on various topics including abstraction, figure drawing, historical subjects, landscape and marine art, portraiture, still life, and topographical views. Each section contains annotated images, artists' biographies, and related glossaries.

Official Website of the collection housing "masterpieces of Westernpainting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting." In addition, the "Library is one of the world's great repositories for the documentation and visual study of Western Art and serves as the research arm of The Frick Collection."

Modern and contemporary art,including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photos, architectural models and drawings, decorative arts, furniture.

The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture, superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality.

The Museum of Modern Art's collection includes more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 14,000 films and four million film stills, as well as 140,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's library.

The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs--and is still growing.