Museums, Galleries, and Exhibits
This page will help you find websites for museums, galleries, and exhibits.
Local Museums
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- Amherst College Mead Art MuseumThe art collection of Amherst College includes American and European paintings, Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll paintings, an English-paneled room, ancient Assyrian carvings, Russian avant-garde art, West African sculpture, and Japanese prints. Admission is free.
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book ArtThe museum's collection includes more than 10,000 picture book illustrations, three art galleries, an art studio, a theater, picture book and scholarly libraries, and educational programming.
- Mount Holyoke College Art MuseumThe museum's collection includes more than 16,000 objects from ancient Egypt, China, and Peru to contemporary America, displayed on a rotating basis. The website also includes an illustrated database. Admission is free.
- Smith College Museum of ArtThe museum contains four floors of exhibition galleries that house the permanent collection; the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs; and rotating visiting exhibitions.
- Springfield MuseumsThe Springfield Museums include two that are dedicated to the arts: the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Admission discounts are available for Springfield College students and Springfield residents.
Museums, Galleries and Exhibits
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- Art Project, powered by GoogleGoogle Streetview-style walkthroughs of major art museums worldwide, with very high-resolution photos of many key works. Create-your-own collections of views correlates with your Google account.
- ArtAccessPart of the Art Institute of Chicago, this website includes online resources of interest to teachers, students and parents, including classroom lesson plans and at-home projects.
- ArtsEdgeAn educational program of the John F. Kennedy Center, ArtsEdge includes an Educators page with lesson plans and a Students page with links to research and student artwork sites.
- Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoThe website includes an extensive and searchable collection of images.
- Library of Congress: American Memory ProjectDigitized images from collections focusing on topics in American history.
- LouvreFrench and English versions available to help visitors tour the famous French museum's website.
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtUse the museum map to visit individual galleries or select its For Educators page.
- Museum of Modern ArtProvides information about projects the New York museum is currently undertaking, as well as information on current and featured exhibits.
- National Gallery of ArtIncludes resources for education and teaching, information about distance learning, and a wealth of detail about the Washington, D.C., gallery's collections.
- New York Public Library Digital GalleryOnline, searchable (and browse-able) database of more than 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from the New York Public Library. Collections include Arts & Literature; Cities & Buildings; Culture & Society; History & Geography; Industry & Technology; Nature & Science; and Printing & Graphics.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick GalleryKnown as the first American art collection, this Smithsonian museum features a vibrant research center with which to answer questions.
- Smithsonian InstitutionThe individual galleries and exhibitions associated with the Smithsonian are available on the institution's homepage.
- The GettyOpened in 1978, the collection includes artifacts from medieval manuscripts to modern sculptures.
- Vatican MuseumsTake a "walking" online tour through the collections in the Vatican Museums.