Links to over 6000 museums in 120 countries
Apart from information about the company (Elsas Productions: multimedia, CD-ROMs, websites) it contains about 6000 links to museum sites in over 120 countries.
a not-for-profit organization which works with cultural institutions around the
world to provide services to museums, schools, and the general public. MUSEE's mission
is to enhance cultural awareness, advance education at all levels, and stimulate public
interest in cultural institutions. MUSEE is helping cultural institutions prepare for the
future by fostering information exchange on existing and emerging electronic
technologies and by creating a forum for the discussion of other innovative approaches to
education, culture, and entertainment using museum resources in tandem with these
technologies. Through MUSEE's programs, museums should also be able to gain access to
new forms of revenue generation.
MUSEE serves as an advocate for museums to evaluate and pursue potential relationships
with funders, commercial producers, programmers, and distributors to develop and
market educational products based on museum collections, public programs, and scholarly
research. MUSEE, for example, helps identify sources of professional assistance for
museums who wish to explore opportunities in electronic media. Such assistance should
ensure the responsible use of a museum's staff, collections, and research materials.
is the last before the start of a new millennium. Now, if ever, is the time to look "back to the future". Catherine David has taken up the challenge. In her preparations for planning this, the world's leading contemporary art event, she moves between the opposite poles of a critical review of the past fifty years, as covered by documenta 1-9, and an interdisciplinary look into a future where traditional categories will no longer apply. Her dX will revolve around a comprehensive survey and interpretation of the state of contemporary art.
The Museum of Forgery is a nomadic institute dedicated to the aesthetics of forgery. The Museum's ongoing programs include:
1.Excessioning: creating or commissioning works to be credited to the oeuvres of appropriate artists living and dead.
2.Do-It-Yourself Fogeries: complete instructions for forging works from museum collections around the world.
3.Box City: sponsoring a free burial ground for unwanted art and related research into the decomposition of art.
4.Smothered Art: sponsoring unusual methods for disposing of art.
5.MOF Library: creating connections to other sites and minds, new and old.
Other programs are undertaken on an as-needed basis in conjunction with the Museum's mandate. The Museum welcomes commissions for forgeries in line with its stated interests and encourages suggestions for future projects.
an international searchable text and image database detailing hypermedia publications and resources about the visual arts, including museum and art gallery image databases.
•ITEM (Image TEchnology in Museums and art galleries) is an international resource of information about the planned and implemented uses, world-wide, of image databases and interactive multimedia intended to further the accessibility, knowledge and interest in European and world cultural heritage, particularly in relation to the visual arts (including photographs), museums, architecture and archaeology. •ITEM collects and disseminates descriptive text (in English and language of original production) and technical information (in English only), together with production and publisher contact names and addresses relating to projects under development and completed published or museum-resident image database and interactive multimedia projects. •These include projects developed by museums, cultural authorities and others for use as internal management and/or public point-of- information resources, projects that have been developed from these resources for subsequent publication and projects that have been designed from the outset specifically for commercial publication. •ITEM has subscribers in 22 countries world-wide, who include Museums, Universities, Libraries, Cultural Authorities, information managers, IT Developers and researchers. •ITEM has since January 1991 has been published in hardcopy (text only) twice yearly by IVAIN (International Visual Arts Information Network, a not-for-profit organisation) in association with CIDOC (the Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums).
The Getty Information Institute works to enrich the content of the computer networks of the future by encouraging those concerned with preserving the cultural heritage to collaborate in building a cultural information infrastructure.
The opportunity to link databases of information, a long-awaited development, is now at a critical juncture. The idea of synergy among institutions that wish to share information is becoming a reality.
Technical barriers to global connectivity are disappearing, but the challenge is not merely to build networks that connect everyone to everything. Electronic links do not solve the problem of content: How can massive bodies of information from heterogeneous sources be gathered, digitized, stored, processed, and distributed across national and international boundaries?
The Getty Information Institute plays a catalytic role on several fronts to build consensus on key issues, identify and bring together stake-holders, and provide leadership for the research and development process that must take place if we are to take full advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to establish connections between people and their cultural heritage.
Explore By: Keyword Search, Categorical Listing, Alpabetical Listing, New Sites. Features
museums, related institutions and other World Wide Web and Gopher sites of
interest. Lists of:
E-mail discussion groups
USENET newsgroups
Museum FTP sites
Includes product and service providers for the museum industry.
Page designed as a navigation tool for museum professionals and anyone interested in museums. It was created by Harold Robinson at the John F. Kennedy University Department of Museum Studies in Orinda,California, as part of a master's project on museums and the Internet. This home page is a basic starting point for the many listings and resources available online in the area of museums. Please send comments for evaluation.
The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the
cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies. We serve individuals and institutions
wishing to improve their means of developing, managing, and conveying museum information through the
use of automation. We support cooperative efforts that enable museums to be more effective at creating
and disseminating cultural and scientific knowledge as represented by their collections and related
documentation.
LACMAweb is an online service of the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. We hope you enjoy your virtual visit to our
museum and will visit us in person soon.
More Than 1640 Artists and Galleries Listing Over 2320 Works!
Art Planet is a comprehensive on-line fine art directory. It is the place to be when you're looking for art on the web. By
searching Art Planet, you will discover Artists, Auction Houses, Galleries, Libraries, Museums, Exhibitions, Publishers, and
other Fine Art Services. Best of all, all links in the Art Planet directory are FREE.
Maritime history comes to life at The Mariners' Museum, America's premier maritime museum. At The Mariners', you'll
discover galleries filled with an international collection of intricately carved figureheads, detailed ship models, paintings,
decorative arts, and other maritime artifacts! Complementing the collection are the impressive Research Library and Archives,
The Museum Shop, the film Mariner, historical interpreters, and a 550-acre park and lake.
was established
through the generosity of Amon G. Carter, Sr.
(1879-1955), to house his collection of
paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington
and Charles M. Russell; to collect, preserve,
and exhibit the finest examples of American
art; and to serve an educational role through
exhibitions, publications, and programs
devoted to the study of American art.
In the heart of old Amsterdam stands a small house with an oak door and red
shutters - the Rembrandt House Museum, once a merchant's dwelling. Here in
the 17th century Rembrandt lived and worked for nearly twenty years. At the
beginning of our century it was turned into a museum where you can see many
of his etchings.
As more and more museum information goes on-line, resource guides
maintained by connoisseurs who will update and maintain their information will be essential navigation aids. "Although we want to keep an active set of links to many museums, we also want to maintain links to those sites also maintaining active guides to museum resources! " Hundreds of links to museums and information about museums.
With more than 200 paintings and almost 500 drawings, the Van Gogh Museum maintains the largest and most varied Van Gogh collection in the world. The works are derived from the artist's estate and have been kept together by his family. Many of the paintings are on permanent exhibition in chronological order, from the somber canvases of Brabant to the brightly-colored works from his late period. In this way they provide a fine survey of Van Gogh's development as an artist. Included in the collection are The Potato Eaters, Self-portrait with Felt Hat, Still-life with Sunflowers and Wheatfield with Crows.
The collection of contemporaries, largely on permanent exhibition, comprises paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Fantin-Latour, Monet, Sisley, Isaac Israëls and many other artists known to Van Gogh. The museum is striving to expand the collection with works by artists from the period 1840-1920. These include paintings, drawings, pastels, and sculpture.
In addition to the permanent collection, the museum has a dynamic exhibition program to illuminate new aspects of late 19th-century art. Special events such as concerts, lectures and theater shows are organized to accompany the exhibitions. The museum building, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, is especially suited to these activities thanks to its acoustics and open character.
The museum has a library as well as a reading and study room for visitors. There is extensive documentation about Van Gogh and one can find international literature about 19th-century art and culture. The unique collection of books (already comprising more than 20,000 volumes) is still growing. In the library it is also possible to study the letters of Van Gogh. These were largely written to his brother Theo and still form a source of inspiration for artists, researchers and everyone interested in Van Gogh.
The Van Gogh Museum is open daily from 10-5. Admission is ƒ 12,50 for Adults and ƒ 5,00 for those under 18. Please call 31-20-570-5200 for further information.
Kees Thijssen created the Artbox in 1976 after 15 years of representing photographers - first in Brussels and subsequently in Amsterdam. Since that time the Artbox has earned and lived up to a reputation for quality artwork and as a reliable business partner. Representing a close-knit group of about 30 Dutch illlustrators and an equal number of foreign illustrators, the Artbox has delivered artwork for many major advertising agencies and campaigns. The illustrators represented regularly win coveted advertising and design awards and many a new talent started his or her career with the Artbox.The Artbox cooperates with the Artworks (London).
The a.k.a. system, developed by the
Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), is an experimental tool that uses vocabulary resources to give transparent, enhanced
access to different databases of cultural information. The a.k.a. allows you to search
simultaneously thousands of records from AHIP databases.
With the a.k.a. you can use the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) and the Art &
Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) to expand your searches to include synonyms, variants, or
more specific or more general forms of your search terms.
Use the OCLC Art Index database (ART) to retrieve records for items in the fields of
archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts,
film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology,
painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.
La base documentaire JOCONDE est un catalogue des dessins, estampes, peintures, sculptures, photographies et objets d'art conservés dans plus de 60 musées de France. 130 000
oeuvres du VIIe siècle à nos jours, 10 000 artistes, 20 000 personnages, et 20 000 lieux recensés.
Art on the Net is a collective of artists helping each other to
come up on the Internet
and share their works on the World Wide Web. Artists create and maintain studios
and rooms in the gallery where they show their works and share about themselves.
Currently there are 100 artists at this site from around the world: poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, digital artists, performance artists, animators and much more.
Website of the oldest Dutch museum. Located in the town of Haarlem this museum shows parts of it's beautifull building and it's technology collection. There is also a large collection of (art) prints.
The Stedelijk Museum is the most important museum of modern and contemporary art in the Netherlands. A lot of works are permanently on view from the Stedelijk Museum's reknown collection of paintings and sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, graphic design, applied art and design. There are always a number of frequently changing temporary exhibitions on view too. In short, a museum dedicated to the new. For more than 100 years!
Brief descriptions of London museums British Telecom Musuem Globe Theatre Madame Tussaud's Museum of Moving Image Natural History Museum Science Museum Transport Museum London online auctions
As the largest searchable database of information on the visual arts, The Guide has over 6,000 listings, with most areas showing images of work - currently, over 1,200 images are on-line. The Guide at Internet ArtResources answers the questions Who, What, When and Where. As a fine arts collector/admirer, you may be trying to find a gallery showing a new artist you just heard about. Or you may be planning a trip to a new city and want to see what galleries are there, what artists they represent or what's their focus. Whether it's a gallery, museum, artist, art publication or bookseller, art show, fair, event or exposition, or art school, you can find any or all through The Guide.
International Committe of Museums. Central server is in Sweden, but there is a mirrorsite in North America. Virtual Library World museums: Now supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) at: http://www.icom.org/vlmp/ . ( These pages provide an eclectic collection of WWW services connected with museums, galleries and archives.) Mailing List WWW Gateway: the ICOM Mailing List WWW Gateway (LWGate). This service is intended to present information about a set of mailing lists, allow people to easily use mailing list commands, and provide a hypertext interface to list archives which exist on the ICOM server. ICOM International Committee for Training
Personnel (The mission of ICTOP is defined as follows: To encourage and promote relevant training to appropriate standards for all people working in museums, throughout their careers, including students on museum-related pre-entry training programmes. another ICOM mirrorsite
art market, artists index, art exhibitions, museum, schedules and festivals, performance arts, arts agencies, etc. etc. ( ART MARKET: Over 20 megs information about art, artists, museums, fairs...)
covers art history and computer applications in art history. Includes a list of university departments and links to some museums and galleries. This site is maintained by the History of Art Department of Birkbeck College, University of London. A great site with numerous art links.
is offered as a means to access over 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world.
These pages provide an eclectic collection of WWW services connected with museums, galleries and archives. The Mother of museum websites..Museums by country, Museums and exhibitions, Selected Virtual Exhibitions. At least one museum per day added.
by Andrew Midkiff. Created for a workshop on the internet of art historians taught at the University of Michigan (also see Chris Witcombe's site in our section EXTRAORDINARY to see another MOTHER of....)
The World Wide Web, with its ability to combine text, images, graphics, still photographs, movies, and sound, has given rise to a new way for libraries, archives, and museums to inform the public about their holdings -- the virtual exhibit. This Page contains links to virtual exhibits located at Websites throughout the Internet.
The Texas Association of Museums is dedicated to fostering educational, cultural, and recreational
opportunities for all Texans. It accomplishes this, through service to its members, by providing a communications
network, sponsoring educational programs, and encouraging adherence to professional standards and practices.
"A world-class
museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, we are a free and comprehensive museum. Our
collection spans the centuries from ancient Egypt to the present. Enjoy this introduction to
our Museum, them come visit us in person!
Among the 30,000 works in our collection are paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs,
glassware, silver, furniture, ceramics, textiles, ritual arts, and drawings. Popular favorites
include the 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy complete with an x-ray that lets you peek inside
the mummy case, several recreated Period Rooms, Pre-Columbian figures, suits of armor,
Renaissance masterpieces, and Impressionist paintings. We have works by Beckmann,
Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh, Homer, Matisse, Monet, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Rembrandt von Rijn,
Warhol, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Museum was founded in downtown St. Louis in 1879. Then famed architect Cass
Gilbert designed The Palace of Fine Arts for the 1904 World's Fair, a magnificent Beaux
Arts-style building. One of only two permanent structures remaining from the Fair, The
Saint Louis Art Museum is in a spectacular setting atop Art Hill in Forest Park, one of the
largest urban parks in the United States."
