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Finding Images and Other Visual Resources: Museum Collections

There are more ways to find interesting and useful images than Google Image search. Learn how and where!

Museum Podcasts

National Gallery of Art Audio and Video Podcasts
Scholarly lectures, including selections from the the A.W. Mellon Lectures, the Elson Lectures with contemporary artists, conversations with art collectors, introductions to exhibitions.

 

  
 

Podcasts from The Met

Two new podcasts that explore art’s ability to connect, fascinate, and inspire.

  

Museum Collection Websites

The following is not intended to be a comprehensive list of links to museums; rather, it presents links to museums with searchable collection databases containing high quality images in a browsable collection interface.
 
Museums are listed according to geographical locations.
  
North America
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 
Frick Collection, New York, NY
The Getty, Los Angeles, CA
Guggenheim, New York, NY
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
 
Europe
British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
KunstHaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
The Louvre, Paris, France
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Rikjsmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium
Tate Museum, London, United Kingdom
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
 
Asia Pacific (East Asia, South East Asia, Australia)
Australia
 
People’s Republic of China
 
Republic of China (Taiwan)
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Mainland China
 
Japan