Art

Digitized access to a percentage of the art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago including fine art, photography, sculpture, and fashion.

https://www.artic.edu/collection

https://www.artic.edu/visit-us-virtually

Use this directory to find art museums in the United States. You can also expand the search into a global list of museums and galleries.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums-us.html

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest library in the world by number of items cataloged. Over 200 million items from many countries in over 30 subject areas. 

https://www.bl.uk/subjects?page=1

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photography from its beginnings to the present, gathered internationally. Their digital collection, although not the entirety, is quite extensive. 

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/

Due to closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum has created Getty at Home - resources, educational programming, videos, art history lessons, and other resources. 

https://www.getty.edu/education/kids_families/do_at_home/index.html

Contributed by: Lisa Nena

This collection contains 18+million digitized items. The collection includes magazines and other digitized resources.  

https://www.hathitrust.org/

This collection is a holding of a few hundred subcollections accessible from the Library of Congress. The collections consist of materials in a variety of formats and across over 60 subjects. 

https://catalog.loc.gov/

Digital access to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection. The collection includes modern, contemporary, Asian, Greek, and Roman art among other collections in mediums such as sculpture, painting, and photography.

https://collections.lacma.org/

Over 482,000 documents, or three quarters of its archive, have been digitized and made available for free to the general public. Guests can explore Furniture, Sculptures, Paintings, Textiles and more.

https://collections.louvre.fr/

The Manchester Art Gallery's digital collection contains over 46,000 objects of fine art, decorative art, and costume, and is searchable and browsable. 

https://manchesterartgallery.org/explore/ 

The McCord Stewart Museum's open access online collection contains more than 154,000 objects, photographs, and archival documents, as well as 144,000 royalty free images. 

https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/collections/ 

Librarians and interns at the Thomas J. Watson Library have digitized over 250 early Museum Publications. It is the largest art museum in the United States.

https://www.metmuseum.org/

360° Tour:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/met-360-project

Digital access to the Museum of Modern Art's collection containing over 90,000 pieces online from around the world within a span of 150 years. The collection includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, photography, architecture, design and film. 

https://www.moma.org/collection/ 

https://www.moma.org/ 

The Morgan's online collection provides access to highlights of their extensive holdings, including  nearly 500 Rembrandt etchings, 10,000 images in their Drawings Online collection, and hundreds of digitized music manuscripts as well as other manuscripts, books, and sketchbooks.

https://www.themorgan.org/collection 

https://www.themorgan.org 

The National Portrait Gallery has the most extensive collection of portraits in the world, and their searchable and browsable online collection contains more than 220,000 works from the 8th century to today. It contains portrait paintings, drawings, miniatures, sculptures, photographs and negatives, prints, drawings, silhouettes, and caricatures. 

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/by-period/ 

The National Gallery of Art provides open access to over 50,000 downloadable images from their collection. The entire collection consists of over 150,000 sculptures, prints, drawings, and paintings.

https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html 

https://www.nga.gov/ 

The New York Public Library's digital collections contains more than 867,000 items with new materials added every day. It contains prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. It is searchable and browsable. 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ 

The Smithsonian’s Open Access platform includes more than 3 million 2D and 3D digital images and other data from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

The University of Washington University Libraries' digital collections contains photographs, maps, newspapers, posters. reports, and other media, and their collections emphasize rare and unique materials. Users can search, sort by subject, sort alphabetically, and browse. 

https://content.lib.washington.edu/

The Victoria & Albert museum has a collection of over 1.2 million objects from all over the world featuring clothing, ancient ceramics, paintings, sculpture, and an almost limitless amount of other fine art objects. 

https://www.vam.ac.uk/ 

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections?type=featured 

Explore museums of many kinds, discover new artwork and experiment with virtual & augmented reality.

https://artsandculture.google.com/

For example: Tour the Van Gogh Museum:

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/van-gogh-museum?hl=en

Another example: Tour the Musée d’Orsay, Paris:

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris?hl=en

The California African American Museum (CAAM) conserves more than 6,300 objects of art, historical artifacts, and memorabilia, and maintains a research library with more than 20,000 books and other reference materials available for limited public use. 

https://caamuseum.org/

The Japanese American National Museum covers more than 130 years of Japanese-American history and contains artifacts, home movies, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories. 

https://www.janm.org/

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. Its permanent collection numbers over 1,300 works of art. 

https://molaa.org/

Chicago Film Archives contains historical footage found nowhere else.

https://chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/

Harvard Film Archive has one of the largest university-based film collections in the United States. A selection of the over 40,000 audio visual collection is accessible online.

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/collections

Archive of Texas-related audio visual items including home video, amateur films, advertisements, local television, and more. 

https://texasarchive.org/https://texasarchive.org/