LINKS

These links are not comprehensive and we make no claim to the accuracy of information contained in them. Suggestions for inclusion are welcome.

Some museum picture collections

Art Institute of Chicago - a great American museum

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - the art collections of the oldest public collections in the UK

http://www.ashmolean.org/collections/?type=resources&id=61

Birmingham City Art Gallery - one of the UK's major regional collections on line

http://www.bmagic.org.uk/

British Museum, London - nearly half a million objects, including all the pictures, from one of the world's greatest museums

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - one of the largest art museums in the United States

http://www.famsf.org/

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - the collections of a major university museum

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/search.html

The Frick Collection, New York - includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists

http://collections.frick.org/

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad - highlights of the Western European art collection of this great museum

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3.html

Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna - among the most important and spectacular in the world, assembled by the Habsburgs, for centuries enthusiastic patrons and collectors

http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page147.html

La Joconde - collections catalogue of the French national museums

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm

Mauritshuis, The Hague - the collection of the Royal Picture Gallery of mainly Dutch and Flemish paintings

http://www.mauritshuis.nl/index.aspx?ChapterID=2346

Metropolitan Museum, New York - artworks from one of the world's great museums

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/index.aspx?dep=0&vW=1

National Gallery, London - one of the greatest collections of Western European painting in the world

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

National Portrait Gallery, London - the national collection of 113,417 portraits of Britons

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp

Prado Museum, Madrid - growing database of the paintings in one of Europe's great museums, based on the Spanish royal collection

http://www.museodelprado.es/en/ingles/collection/on-line-gallery/

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - the collections of this great European art museum

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/zoeken/index.jsp?focus=assets&lang=en

Tate, London - the UK's national collection of British and modern art

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/

Wallace Collection, London - one of Europe's finest collections of works of art, paintings, furniture, arms & armour and porcelain

http://www.wallacecollection.org/wallacelive

The Wellcome Library - collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Some other image and data collections

Artcyclopedia - a guide to art on the internet

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Artinfo - the art world and art market on line http://www.artinfo.com/ with an extensive illustrated database of artist and auction results

http://www.artinfo.com/artists/

Artnet - the art world and art market online http://www.artnet.com/ with an extensive illustrated database of artist and auction results

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistIndex.aspx?alpha=A1

Artstor - a subscriber-only digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities

http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml

Bridgeman Art Library - a leading commercial source of fine art images from over 8,000 collections and 29,000 artists

http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/

‘NICE Paintings' on the Visual Arts Data Service - an alternative way to view and search ‘NICE Paintings'. VADS is an online resource for visual arts with over 100,000 images freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK

http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/NIRP/index.php

SCRAN - Scottish Cultural Network: 360,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media

http://www.scran.ac.uk/

Web Gallery of Art - a privately-run database of 23,000 painting images

http://www.wga.hu/index.html

Some other cultural resources and organisations

24 Hour Museum - news, listings and features from over 3,000 UK museums, galleries and heritage sites

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/

Association of Art Historians - the national organisation for professional art and design historians, researchers or students

http://www.aah.org.uk/

Collections Trust - UK organisation for collections, aiming to ensure that cultural collections are available for use and enjoyment by everyone

http://www.mda.org.uk/

Cornucopia - online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries

http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/index.html

Dictionary of Art Historians - a biographical dictionary of historic scholars, curators and historians of art

http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/

Intute - a free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Public Catalogue Foundation - photographing and recording all oil, acrylic and tempera paintings in publicly owned collections in the UK and producing colour catalogues on a county-by-county basis

http://www.thepcf.org.uk/

Union List of Artists Names - a recognised international authority list used by ‘NICE Paintings' to define the names, dates and schools of its artists

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/