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Museums and Related Organizations

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African American Museums Association
an association of African American museums, directors, collectors and other persons interested in this field

The Alexandria Museum of Art
Collection of contemporary Louisiana art and an array of local, regional, and national exhibits, including the state's largest collection of North Louisiana folk art.

Alvar Aalto Museum
The Alvar Aalto Museum specialises in architecture. It preserves, researches and maintains a permanent display of material related to Aalto's work as an architect and designer. It also oversees building conservation, arranges exhibitions and distributes information, principally on topics related to Aalto.

Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College Art Museum

American Association of Museums

ANU Art History Server
There is quite a bit at this site, including a database of prints and print history, and information on classical and contemporary architecture. [Australian National University, Canberra, Australia]

The Archive: historic and artistic photographs
The Archive contains over 4,000 individually selected historic and artistic photographic images that span the entire history of photography world wide. Includes some historic photographs available for sale.

Ars Electronica Center
A museum of the future, a ‘knowledge machine’ whose mission is to help visitors attain that degree of ‘fitness’ in relation to new digital media which is essential in today's information-based society.

Art Deco Erte Museum of fashion and theatre designs
Museum of theatre and fashion designs from the father of art deco, Erte (1892-1990)

Art & Museum Sites in France

Art Gallery of New South Wales
This is the official site of The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. One of Australia's premier art museums, it houses important collections of Australian, Aboriginal, European, Asian, and Contemporary painting sculpture, works on paper and photography. (English)

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Museum Network (AMN)

ArtsEdNet
An online service developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, supporting the needs of the K-12 arts education community. Includes arts education advocacy materials, professional development, curriculum development and theory development.

Association of Art Museums Directors Online

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Bayly Museum
The Digital Image Center includes two exhibits from the
Bayly Museum at the University of Virginia.

African Art:Aesthetics and Meaning

Architecture 102: Renaissance and Baroque Italian Architecture

British Columbia Museums Association
The BCMA brings together the museums, art galleries, historic sites, cultural and science centres of the province for shared problem-solving, the interchange of ideas and institutional and personal advancement. Their web sites includes many online galleries as well, including the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan

The Brooklyn Museum
The second largest museum in the State of New York, The Brooklyn Museum features a collection of over a million and a half objects including works from Ancient Egypt, the arts of Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, Decorative Arts, painting and sculpture. (English)

Lili Brochetain Collection
Russian Non-Conformist Art of the 60s-80s.

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Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
French National Center for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou (English)

California Museum of Photography
The museum offers historical photographs from the collections, commissioned contemporary art projects specifically for the Web, essays and children's media education projects.

Canadian Wildlife and Wilderness Art Museum
A collection of the worlds best wildlife and wilderness Art for the enjoyment of some of our cyber-friends. (English)

Carleton University Art Gallery
Carleton University Art Gallery is in Ottawa, Canada, the nation's capital. It houses a collection of Canadian art and European prints and presents a program of contemporary and historical exhibitions of both a national and international character. The gallery is a research resource for the university and focusses upon interdisciplinary issues. The Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art is housed in the Carleton University Art Gallery.

The Carnegie
Including The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie Science Center, the Carnegie Music Hall, and the Andy Warhol Museum.

Cézanne Exhibition
The Cezanne exhibition on the web. Access to virtual visit exhibition, including a selection of works, an illustrated biography, all the practical information, the press-kit, the bookstore, and a contest to win 20 CDROMs about Cezanne. (Language: French, English)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Columbia Museum of Art
The Columbia Museum of Art maintains a collection of over 5000 works of European and American Fine and Decorative art dating from the 13th century to the present. This collection includes two major gifts of paintings, furniture, textiles, and bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection as well as the Flora Barringer collection of decorative art.

The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Copenhagen Art Museum, Fluxus, Net-book
Fluxus archive from Copenhagen Museum of Art, Net-book catalogue
with marginal litterature in a.o. languages.

Core Industrial Design Network
The source for Industrial Design information on the Web

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Founded in 1869 the Corcoran Gallery of Art features American art from the eighteenth century to the present. The collection is especially known for 19th century landscapes and portraiture as well as challenging contemporary and historical works in many media including paintings, photography, prints, sculpture and multi media. (english)

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DAAp Galleries
DAAP Galleries, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati.
Includes Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, Machine Shop Gallery, and Aronoff Center for Design and Art Gallery. Changing exhibitions October through May.

Salvador Dali Museum
The St. Petersburg Salvador Dali Museum has one of the finest collections of the Master's works availavle.[Unofficial site]

Dallas Museum of Art

Davis Museum and Cultural Center
Past and present exhibitions showing at the museum, as well as general museum information. [Wellesley, MA].

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park is a museum of American contemporary and modern art with a special emphasis on the works of living New England artists. The museum features a 35 acre Sculpture Park of modern and contemporary American public works. The DeCordova site provides updated information and images from current exhibitions, a cybertour of its Sculpture Park, an on-line school catalogue, and an art chat room. It might be the most sculpture intensive on the Net (over 60 images so far of outdoor works).

Decouverte d'une grotte ornée paleolithique a Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardeche)
Ancient French Cave Paintings (Primarily in French, some english).

The Detroit Institute of Arts
The DIA event and educational schedules are online, as well as a complete section on the current Detroit Film Theatre season. In addition, the site provides the DIA research library, highlights from the museum shop, the online staff directory, and links to other museums.

Digital Daguerreian Archive
Digital Daguerreian Archive Project home page. The goal of this project is to make available texts from the early days of photography in electronic form. The initial focus is on the Daguerreian period (1839-1860). Also, the Daguerreian Society, a non-profit organization to promote the study of Daguerreotypes and their history.

The DIVA project
Digital Images for the Visual Arts has over 400 images, mostly of Australian art and architecture, as well as text information about the Monash University Art Collection, Studying the Visual Arts at Monash, and Art Museums and Galleries in Melbourne.

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City of Elmhurst Art Museum
The Elmhurst Art Museum is a cultural facility created for the people of Elmhurst and surrounding communities. As a non-profit corporation, it provides resources which encourage an understanding and appreciation of the visual arts. The Museum is known for its welcoming friendly atmosphere where art can be viewed, studied, created and appreciated by all.

Le siecle des lumieres dans la peinture des musees de France An English Version of
The Age of Enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums is also available.

Exploratorium
A museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive ‘hands’ on exhibits. Located in the Palace Of Fine Arts in the Marina district of San Francisco.

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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Over 65,000 images online, the largest searchable imagebase of art online in the world. Utilized by artists, educators and art lovers, this internationally recognized website should not be missed. Subscribe to the free online newsletter featuring site updates and information as well as a featured image every issue!

The Finnish National Gallery
You can learn about the Gallery's past and present, and also visit the collections at its three specialist museums -the Museum of Foreign Art, Sinebrychoff, the Museum of Finnish Art, Ateneum and the Museum of Contemporary Art - which covers a period of eight centuries. Children can take their own special routes through the Ateneum.
Service in English, Swedish and Finnish.

The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art
Contemporary Art Museum dedicated to Spain and Latin America including non-Spanish speaking countries (Brazil and Haiti). (English/Spanish)

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J. Paul Getty Museum

Glenbow
Glenbow's Art Collection is comprised of all forms of fine arts, including oil paintings, works on paper (watercolours, prints and drawings), photographs, sculptures as well as contemporary works of various media. Focusing on western Canada, the collection covers the spectrum from nineteenth century historical paintings to contemporary works.

List of Musems in Greece
Includes a directory of Art Museums and Galleries

Guggenheim Museum
Encompassing the activities of the four affiliated museums that make the Guggenheim a truly international institution, this site represents the latest manifestation of Solomon R. Guggenheim's original intentions in creating a foundation for the promotion and encouragement and education in art and the enlightenment of the public.

Guide to Museum and Cultural Resources

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Museums Haandbogen
All museums in Denmark. About 800 with 450 pictures. (In Danish).

Harmony and Proportion
The relationship between Sound and Space, Music and Design, as investigated by Pythagoras, Plato, and later Alberti and Palladio.
Contains some sound files for interactive illustration.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Each year, over 13,000 students, faculty, and scholars from around the world use the Ransom Center's collections. Researchers pursue work on a wide range of topics such as surrealist photography, women editors of early 20th-century literary magazines, avant-garde theater design, modern French musical composition, the art of caricature, censorship in Hollywood, contemporary African novelists, and 18th-century English periodical literature. Approximately 100 books and dissertations as well as numerous articles are published each year by scholars using the Center's collections.

Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation
To provide a range of current information useful to conservators, curators and anyone else concerned with the care of heritage material, sites and structures.

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
The Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt is one of the oldest public museums in Germany, with departments of Art (paintings, drawings, sculptures), Arts and Crafts (esp. medieval ivory work and art nouveau), and Natural History (geology-palaeontology, mineralogy and zoology). The Museum comprises visual arts from the greek-roman period to the present time and the world's largest Joseph Beuys Complex. At the moment, the pages are only available in German, but they include many pictures.

The High Museum of Art
Located in Atlanta, [Georgia, USA] the museum tour includes images of contemporary art; 19th and 20th century furniture; American and European painting; African art; folk art, and photography. Information about the High Museum's films, lectures, and Special Exhibitions is also on the tour.

A History of Photography
A hypertext history of photography from the earliest times up to the 1920s covering all the significant processes and people involved.

Holocaust Research Institute
The United States Holocaust Research Institute is the scholarly division of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Its mission is to serve as an international resource for the development of research on the Holocaust and related issues, including those of contemporary significance. Includes a photographic, film and video archive.

Henie Onstad Art Centre
One of the largest collections of international contemporary art in Norway.
Its permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Beuys,
Vasarely, the COBRA artists and Warhol.

Hunstville Museum of Art
Huntsville, Alabama, USA

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The ICA in London's web presence. Specialise in exhibiting contemporary visual arts, performance art, cultural discourse and criticism, cinema and video. there is also a substantial archive of video and audio recordings which can be browsed.

International Children's Art Museum
Features artwork from children around the world. Has information about the museum and its programs. It also features an online gallery with exhibitions
from the museums permanent collection.

International Directory of Art Libraries
The IFLA Section of Art Libraries international Directory of Art Libraries is presented as a finding aid to over 3,000 libraries with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archeology worldwide.

Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology home page
From the University of Memphis. Includes an Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit

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Frida Kahlo
Works by Kahlo, and information about her life.

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Latin Art Museum
A good Latin Art link.

La Trobe University Art Museum

LASCAUX
Still images from the fine art virtual reality museum installation.
A short text description is also provided.

Leonardo da Vinci Museum
Images and information relating to Leonardo da Vinci.

Le WebLouvre - now: The WebMuseum
Includes a small tour of Paris, the Famous Paintings collection,
and an exhibit of Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry.

Max Liebermann Catalogue raisonne

Live Art Archive
The Live Art / Performance Art Archive Database is based at The Nottingham Trent University, England and resulted from a commission initiated by the Arts Council of England in 1994 to collate and list extant materials associated with Live Art / Performance Art, primarily within the UK. The Archive broadly embraces ephemeral, time-based visual and performing arts events that include a human presence and broaden, challenge or question traditional views of the arts.

Louvre

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

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Madison Art Center
Offers images and information on current exhibitions and education programs, along with a detailed schedule of upcoming exhibitions and events. Visitors can also view unique items available from the museum's Gallery Shop.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Mattress Factory
An electronic archive of Installation & Performance Art at the Mattress Factory since 1982 and a behind-the-scenes look at the current exhibition of this
Research & Development Lab for artists.

Media Centre of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
Provides information about the Media Centres collections, services, research and staff. Also offers a vast collection of links to contemporary art and culture resources available on the Internet. This directory is organized by subject categories, such as: Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions, Events, Media, Art History, Art Libraries, other specialized directory, etc. (French/English)

The Menil Collection
Conserve, and exhibit the permanent collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Its concentrations include art from antiquity, the Byzantine world, tribal cultures, and the twentieth century.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
One of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its collections include more than two million works of art - several hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time - spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The permanent collection includes outstanding works in seven curatorial areas with 85,000 objects spanning 4,000 years. It contains extensive information about the museum including previews of the galleries and a large catalog of curriculum materials.

Moderna Museet - Stockholm
The international collection of Moderna Museet is considered one of the five or six foremost in the Western world today, with works by Picasso, Braque, Duchamp, Schwitters, Pollock, Newman, Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, Alfred Leslie and others. The collection of twentieth century Swedish art is outstanding.

Monka Antiques, Art & Preservation
Educational and news feature articles written by prominent experts in the fields of antiques, fine art and historic preservation of antiques, art and architecture. Fine art available for purchase, ads and gallery home pages also included.

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
The oldest fine arts museum in the State of Alabama. The Museum holds over 2800 works of art in its collection, including paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings, photographs, pieces of sculpture and decorative arts.

The Montral Museum of Fine Arts

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
The new museum features expansive galleries where varying exhibitions of Japanese arts, crafts and artifacts are displayed.

Museum of Arts and Crafts
Courtesy of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers and of the Musee des arts et metiers. [Paris, France]

Museum of Bad Art
The Museum of Bad Art 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.

Museum of Contemporary Ideas

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Includes visuals and information on the permanent collection, travelling exhibitions,
events and educational programs.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Museum of Modern Art: Electronic Projects

Museum Meiji-Mura
An open-air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design

Videospaces

Musem Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
(German and English)

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National Art Library
The National Art Library, London is a major research library for the Fine and Decorative Arts. Public online catalogue at telnet://nal.vam.ac.uk. NAL is also the curatorial department for the art, crafts and design of the book within the Victoria and Albert Museum.

National Gallery of Canada
The permanent home of Canada's exceptional national art collection. Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada abrite en permanence l'exceptionnelle collection
nationale d'oeuvres d'art du Canada.

National Museum of African Art

National Museum of American Art

National Museum of Slovenia
The central museum institution of Slovenia, located in the capital city of Ljubljana. It has extensive departments of Archaeology, History and Applied Arts, and Drawings and Graphics, as well as a major Numismatic Cabinet and a library with over 150,000 volumes. The museum regularly publishes a journal and three serials, the latter, and particularly those concerned with archaeology and numismatics, with prominent international reputations.

National Museum of Women in therts
To recognizing the contributions of women artists, this site showcases the museum with a images rom the permanent collection, a video tour, artist profiles, and more.

Natural History Museum's World-Wide-Web Server
An experimental serve, which will provide access to much information about the Museum's work and its collections. Contains list of links.

NerdWorld Media
Features an internet subject index and "search tool" for various museums around the world.

Norton Art Museum

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Online Museum of Singapore Art & History
Features local exhibits.

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Paperless Guide to New York City Museums

The Perseus Project
A collaborative academic publication compiled by art historians, philologists, and archaeologists for teaching and research. It contains textual and visual materials for the study of ancient Greek civilization, and is published on CD-ROM, videodisk and now on the World-Wide Web. Over 70 museums have participated in building the Perseus art catalogs. So far, the Perseus web site contains the full texts of the Perseus art catalogs, documenting over 2,300 Greek vases, coins, and sculptures. About 13,800 photographs of vases, coins, architecture and sites are available now, and, as museums agree to allow it, more photographs will be published on-line. Perseus also contains a texts archive, with the works of over 30 ancient Greek authors, in Greek and in English translation; morphological databases and lexica; a browser which locates objects by attributes and keywords; and a searchable index to the entire site.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art craft Show
A Museum for the Photographic Examination of Contemporary Society and Culture.

Portinari Project Collection
A sample of the material collected by the Portinari Project,documenting the work, life and times of Candido Portinari, one of the foremost brazilian painters. What is unique about this site is its navigational and interface design.

Pre-Raphaelite Critic
A scholarly archive of critical reception of the Pre-Raphaelites as both painters and poets, to cover the period between 1849-1900.

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

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Queer Arts Resource
A nonprofit web-based forum for the display and discussion of queer content in the visual arts. It features curated gallery exhibitions, critical essays, lists of events and exhibitions and a bookshop.

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Reading Public Museum
The Reading Public Museum, Planetarium and Arboretum have been serving the Reading Community for over 70 years. The museum has one of the largest permanent collections of any regional museum in the US.

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Rossetti Archive is a hypermedia environment for studying the works of the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882).

Royal Ontario Museum
Large museum with Greek, Roman and Far Eastern art, archaeology and natural sciences collection, Native ethnology and natural history collections. Virtual exhibits including educational activities, shopping and online artifact identification. (English, French)

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San Diego Museum of Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Online Museum of Singapore Art and History

Smithsonian Institution
Including the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of American Art, the National Air and Space Museum, the Sackler Gallery, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History and more.

Snite Museum of Art
At the University of Notre Dame, includes visitor information for the Snite Museum, a listing of exhibits for the coming year, and samples from its collection of over fifteen thousand works of fine art.

Spencer Museum Printroom
Prints, drawings and illustrated books at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.
Images are arranged in thematic exhibtions.

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
The Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art Amsterdam, the most important museum for
modern and contemporary art in The Netherlands,

Surrealism Server

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Texas.net Museum of Art
Includes an enormous selection of art scans in the ftp archive, reviews and critisism, an exclusive link list.

Tokugawa Museum
At the core of the collection are objects inherited from the first shogun, Ieyasu. The Owari, like other great daimyo, also treasured the art from earlier generations. The Museum owns most of the extant sections of the twelfth century Illustrated Tale of Genji.

Torrione Castle
A unique example of a northern Italian private fortress surviving from the Middle Ages with a Dungeon built before 1147 by a great grandson of the founder of the Vialardi family

Treasures of the Czars
From the Florida International Museum.

William Turner
A collection of information on Turner.

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The Uffizi Gallery
Founded in Florence in 1581, by the De Medici family, is one of the oldest museums in the world. Many important works of Italian and other schools, dating from between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Web guide contains dozens of high resolution colour pictures, comments, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements and techniques.

Ukiyo-E Museum
(Japanese and English)

University of Arizona Museums and Galleries

University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The visual arts center of the University of California at Berkeley, the UAM/PFA is noted for its thought-provoking exhibitions of both art and film. The museum website contains online versions of current and former exhibitions and exhibition information including online catalogs with images and audio artist interviews, a database of over 12,000 film notes on world cinema, searchable art and film collection guides, an interactive multime dia guide to modern art for kids and more.

Photo Archives
of the University of Utah Marriott Library

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
The fine arts museum of the University of Chicago.

UIUC Krannert Art Museum
A Guide to the museum, pictures of parts of the collection, and more. [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA].

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
[University of Minnesota, USA]

University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Art and Archaelogy

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The Publications of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Valcamonica Rock Art
Prehistoric Rock Art from Valcamonica (Alps) as archaeology and as interpretation. (English,Italian).

Varo Registry of Women Artists
A rapidly-growing collection of images by women artists. So far, 17 artists and
200 images are on-line. with many more on the way. The Varo also provides
a database, listservs for discussion.

The Victoria and Albert Museum
The largest museum of the decorative arts in the world. The beautiful Victorian and Edwardian buildings house 145 galleries containing some of the world's greatest collections of sculpture, furniture, fashion and textiles, paintings, silver, glass, ceramics, jewellery, books, prints and photographs.

Virginia Discovery Museum
Cultivates the curiosity and imagination of children and adults through hands-on exhibits
related to arts, humanities and sciences.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Videomuseum
A french non-profit organization managing a very extensive project aiming at the computer cataloguing of all the arts works of the 20th century in all the French public museums and collections.

Video On Line: Art and Museum
Collection of links, mirrors, and exhibitions, including The Hammer Manuscript and RADAR.

Virtual Museum of Fine Arts
First Spanish Virtual Museum of Fine Arts Artist from 16th Century to nowadays. Growing weekly. Ribalta, Porcar, Ripolles, Sese... (Spanish / Catalan / English)

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Walker Art Center
On the cutting edge of Modern Art.

Warhol Museum
Essential to the understanding of the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. It is also a primary resource for any one who wishes to gain insights into contemporary art and popular culture.

The WebMuseum

Webseum of Holography
Maintained as a privately-owned and operated internet resource.

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitworth Art Gallery
University of Manchester, U.K.

Women Artists Archive
Contains exhibits of contemporary women artists as well as archives of material concerning women artists in history. The printed material ranges from published articles, personal correspondence, museum photographs of artwork, exhibition notices, brochures, and unpublished materials.

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