Guide to Museum Web Sites
See also: New Art Links
Test Sites for Visual Image Retrieval
MetaSEEk, A Content-Based Meta Search Engine for Images (Columbia University)
IBM's QBIC program at the French Ministry of Culture
QBIC at UC Davis: Introduction
Image Search at the University of Michigan
Museum Organization Sites
American Association of Museums
Association of Art Museum Directors' Art Museum Network
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information
Museums and the Web Annual Conference, April 21-15, 1998, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Getty Sites
Getty Institutešs Museum Education Site Licensing Project (MESL) Guidelines/ Contents
Getty MESL Project Resources List
Getty MESL Project "Research Agenda."
Arts Sites General Directories
The Civilized Explorer, a Meta-Guide to Art on the Internet (This section includes links to some rather unusual museum and gallery sites and it includes commentary worth reading.)
Houston Sites
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
US Museum Sites
National Gallery of Art
Search Pages (Artist, Title, Subject, and Expanded Search options)Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Peabody Essex Museum
Asian Export Art Wing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (terrible site!)
San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
Detroit Institute of Art. Included in NEH list of "best humanities sites" See also their visual resources database.
International Museum Sites
A List of Museum Links in Japan
Contemporary Art Museum of Rome
Louvre Webmuseum Paris (North Carolina Mirror Site)
Other Related Sites of Interest
Christie's Auction Sotheby's Auction (odd integration of calendar into several frames)
Asian Arts
A Mega-List of Asian Arts Sites (go halfway down the page to find the lists)
Freer Gallery of Art
Includes Puja/ Hindu Devotion, An On-Line Site for EducatorsNational Palace Museum in Taiwan
Textiles, Other Media, Interesting Treatments
British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
Search on Textiles, World Wide Arts Resources
De Young Museum, San Francisco. (Note: Includes slide preview of Ancient Glass exhibiton.)
North Carolina Museum of Art (Note: Includes Shock Wave and Quick Time presentations on classical vases.)
Some Really Odd & Creative Sites that I Like
Scary Women (Conference on Women in Horror Films at UCLA)The Hellbound Web (Student-designed weblopedia on the Hellraiser horror film series, includes video and audio clips)