The Academy of Natural Sciences

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia's Natural History Museum, is a public museum and research institute. It has exhibits on dinosaurs, butterflies, art of science and traveling exhibits.

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition.

The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and present a panorama of the world's cultures.

The Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is home to 19 museums and 9 research centers. This page is a great launching site to the Smithsonian Institution's museums including: African Art Museum, Air and Space Museum, American History Museum, Portrait Gallery, National Zoo, Sculpture Garden, Design Museum.

The Louvre

This is the official site of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The Louvre Museum presents collections of western art from the Middle Ages to 1850, and the antique civilizations that have preceded and influenced this art. The collections are divided into 8 departments: Oriental Antiquities, Islamic Art, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities and, for the modern period, Paintings, Sculptures, Art items, Prints and Drawings until 1848. In addition to these departments, the museum presents a section devoted to the history of the Louvre, including the medieval moats erected by Philippe Auguste in 1190. 21 new rooms have been dedicated to collections of Italian and Spanish paintings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. This site features a collection database that includes images and details for thousands of pieces of art sorted by department such as Medieval Art, Photographs, and so on.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa)

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Features a Modern Teacher section with dowloadable PDF teacher guides, searchable lessons, and images to browse from the guides.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (The Guggenheim)

An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. Visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by experienced docents. Founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond.

Vatican Museums

Some of the greatest artists of all time will welcome you: Raphael in the Stanze, Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Giotto, Leonardo, and Caravaggio in the Pinacoteca, Van Gogh, Matisse and Moore in the area dedicated to modern religious art. You will encounter, through the Laocoön Group and the Apollo Belvedere, the greatest masterpieces of Classical Antiquity.

Collections online include: Gregorian Egyptian Museum, Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms, Pinacoteca.

J. Paul Getty Center (The Getty)

One of the largest supporters of arts in the world, the J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution that focuses on the visual arts in all their dimensions.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.

Uffizi Gallery

The splendid Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy. Features world-class artists including: Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael. There are also virtual guides and images presented on this site to navigate through for your viewing pleasure.