There are many good art
museums in Ohio.
Check out their websites to learn more...
OR
TRAVEL THE WORLD!
Visit the websites of some of the world's
most famous art museums.
Where in the world do you want to go?
OHIO UNITED STATES EUROPE OTHER WEB MUSEUM LINKS
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CALIFORNIA:
The Los Angels County
Museum of Art: Half
of
the 52,000 pieces of art in this museum can be viewed on this site. You
can
search the collection by
artist. ILLINOIS:
The Art
Institute of Chicago:
Take a gallery walk of the museum.
Coming soon: an
Art Explorer feature on Impressionism and Post
Impressionism. MASSACHUSETTS: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: View 500 highlights from the collection. Each picture is accompanied by information about the image. http://www.mfa.org/home.htm MICHIGAN:
Detroit
Institute of
Arts (DIA): Highlights from the
collection are on
view. NEW
YORK: NYC
The Frick
Collection: You
can view and read about individual pieces. An IPIX virtual tour is also
available. The Guggenheim Museum, New York City: You can search this collection of modern art by artist, title or movement. http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml The
Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The
Met's goal is to
have examples of art from all times and all periods. Of the 2 million
pieces in
this museum, you can view 6,500 online. This is a great site to find
examples of
Non-European
art. The Museum
of Modern Art (MOMA):
There are limited images available on this site, but information about
each
image is described in detail. The Whitney
Museum of American Art:
An audio
tour is available
of 27 pieces from the permanent collection. Information about current,
modern
art exhibits is also available. OHIO:
AKRON ART MUSEUM:
Basic information about
the museum is
given. CLEVELAND
MUSEUM OF ART: There
are 34,000 pieces in this museum. 10% are online currently, but the
number of
pieces will go up. Several on-line tours are available including a tour
by
Sister
Wendy. COLUMBUS
MUSEUM OF ART:
Basic info only. DAYTON ART
INSTITUTE: Several
virtual on-line tours are available of this midsize
museum. TOLEDO
MUSEUM OF ART: This
museum owns 30,000 pieces. Their goal is to cover all times and all
periods. Some
images are online. TEXAS: The Kimball Art Museum: Take a virtual tour of the north gallery. There are good descriptions of the pieces shown online. http://www.kimbellart.org/ WASHINGTON D.C.: The National Gallery of Art: Multiple on-line tours are available of this museum. There are also several Quick Time tours as well. http://www.nga.gov/ The Phillips
Collection:
Highlights from this small museum are shown and described. There is
also an
interactive section. The National
Portrait Gallery:
There
are 22 on-line
tours of this
collection.
LET'S BEGIN OUR TOUR IN PARIS with the LOUVRE which is the home of the MONA LISA! This building was once a palace and is quite impressive. A quick, virtual tour of the main galleries is available at: http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm For
a look at
more modern art, visit the MUSEE
D'ORSAY,
PARIS. If you
love Impressionist paintings, this is the place to look.
The
collection
of the BRITISH
MUSEUM,
in London, England is immense. The museum has the largest collection of
Ancient Egyptian
Art outside of Cairo, Egypt. Use the COMPASS feature to take a virtual
tour of
some of the most famous treasures in the museum. If
you are
only interested in paintings, the NATIONAL
GALLERY, in
London,
England is the place to go. The Gallery contains one of the largest
collections
of European paintings in the world. (Unfortunately, you can only view a
few works
on-line). You
can spend
hours on-line at the TATE
GALLERY, in
London
England. 25,000 works from the museum are on the web and each piece has
its own information page. You can search this site by artist.
Many
ideas in
Western culture and art sprang from the Ancient Greeks. At the ART
AND ARCHITECTURE OF GREECE
site, you may explore Ancient Greek art in depth. This site also
provides links to many
museums in Greece.
NEXT
ON YOUR
TOUR: see paintings and sculptures in the BORGHESE
GALLERY in
Rome.
Next stop, a mansion turned museum, the MAURITSHUIS, THE HAGUE. This museum features a collection of Flemish and Dutch masterpieces with works by Rembrandt and Vermeer. http://www.mauritshuis.nl/english/ Now, take a virtual tour of the RIJKS MUSEUM, in AMSTERDAM. This museum houses works by European artists such as Rembrandt. http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/asp/framuk.asp?name=collectie Van
Gogh's
family believed in Vincent's talent and kept many of his paintings in
the
family. These were used to create the VAN
GOGH MUSEUM in
Amsterdam.
Visit
the Van Gogh Museum site at: Want
to see
every painting Van Gogh ever did? Want to find out how many were
destroyed in
various wars, lost, stolen or are in private collections...? If so,
check out this site:
See works by great Spanish painters at the PRADO MUSEUM, in Madrid. Each month, a painting is analyzed in detail on-line. Follow the ACTIVITIES/GUIDED TOURS path to the analysis page. http://museoprado.mcu.es/ihome.html
The Vatican has a very extensive website. From this site, you can visit the Vatican Museums. Click HERE to explore various works owned by the Vatican.
You can also
look at
OLGA'S
GALLERY
for
lists of famous painters. The goal of this site is
to be
the best art resource on the web:
http://www.abcgallery.com/
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