Museum Studies: Web Resources
Internet Resources
- art and architectureFrom the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Art Cyclopedia9,000 artists, 2,900 art sites indexed and 160,000 links
- arthistoricumGerman virtual art library
- Arts JournalLinks to current arts stories in the news
- Axis: the online resource for contemporary art"The website features profiles of professional artists and curators, interviews, discussions, art news, debates and showcases the artists to watch."
- Best History Websites: Art HistoryA site designed for schools but has a useful collection of art history web sites
- British Library Images Online"a unique resource for picture buyers, graphic designers and publishers, enabling you to license thousands of high quality images from the British Library's unparalleled collections"
- British MuseumThe 'Explore' page
- Dictionary of Art Historians"A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history."
- Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1660-1980 This link opens in a new window"The Dictionary of Scottish Architects (DSA) is a database providing biographical information and job lists for all architects known to have worked in Scotland during the period 1840-1980"
- Europeana"Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions."
- Getty Provenance Index DatabasesIncludes archival inventories and sales catalogues
- Getty Vocabularies"The Getty vocabularies contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture, archival materials, visual surrogates, and bibliographic materials."
- Google Art ProjectAllows you to browse art work from over 150 collections
- KubikatKubikat is the collective catalogue of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history:
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institut (www.khi.fi.it)
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (www.zikg.eu), funded by the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris (www.dt-forum.org), funded by Max Weber Stiftung - Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome (www.biblhertz.it) - National Art LibraryInformation about the V&A National Art Library
- National Registry of Archives"The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history."
- New York Public Library Digital Collection"over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collection"
- Union List of Artist Names® Online"The four Getty vocabularies are intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture and material culture."
- V&A Art auction sales, sales catalogues and price guides study guide"This guide describes resources and standard reference works useful for finding information on prices paid at auction for works of art and locations of sales catalogues for provenance research."
- V&A CollectionsSearch the collections of the V&A
- VADSthe online resource for visual arts. A wealth of collections and resources from the UK HE community.
- Wikimedia Commons" is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips)"
