American Art Museum

http://www.nmaa.si.edu/

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home of the largest collection of American art in the world. Its holdings—over 37,500 works—represent the most inclusive collection of American art of any general museum today, reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious diversity.

The Getty

http://www.getty.edu/

The mission of the J. Paul Getty Museum in San Francisco is to delight, inspire, and educate a diverse public through the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of works of art of the highest quality.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/

View more than 3,500 works of art in our online collection.

National Museum of Women in Art

http://www.nmwa.org/

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. In the pages that follow you will discover a wealth of information about the museum, selected artists, our collection, and many services. You may choose to examine images of works from our permanent collection, or take a tour of the museum with Founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists, and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information.

National Museum of African Art

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/

As a leading center for the visual arts of Africa, the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) fosters and sustains--through exhibitions, collections, research, and public programs--an interest in and an understanding of the diverse cultures in Africa as these are embodied in aesthetic achievements in the visual arts. The museum accepts into its collections and exhibits the art of all African areas, including the ancient and contemporary arts for the entire continent.

National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov/

The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.  The Gallery limits its active art collecting to paintings, sculpture, and works of art on paper, from the late middle ages to the present, from Europe and the United States. Trustee policy allows the Gallery to accept, in addition, other significant works of art in conjunction with major donations in the primary areas of the Gallery's collections.

US Museums

http://www.icom.org/vlmp/usa.html

This site provides an alphabetical listing of museums in the United States and provides links to their homepages.

British Museum

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/

The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. Access to the collections is free.

The Louvre

http://www.louvre.fr/

 The Louvre is one of the greatest museums in the world. Established in 1793 by the French Republic, the Louvre Museum, is one of the earliest European museums.  Divided into 7 departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilizations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation.

Florida Museums

Bass Museum of Art

http://www.bassmuseum.org/

The purpose of the Bass Museum of Art of Miami Beach is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the visual arts for the residents and visitors of the City, the County and the region as well as an international community of scholars and art connoisseurs.  The Bass Museum of Art was established by agreement in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted the gift of the art collection of John and Johanna Bass upon condition that it would maintain the collection in perpetuity, provide for the exhibition of the collection, and keep it open and available to the public.

FIU Art Museum

http://www.fiu.edu/~museum/

The Art Museum at Florida International University, started in 1977 as a student gallery, has grown to achieve AAM accreditation (American Association of Museums) and broad recognition for its growing collection of Latin and 20th century American art, innovative exhibitions, outstanding lecture series and unparalleled programs for South Florida's diverse audiences.

Lowe Art Museum

http://www.lowemuseum.org/

The mission of the Lowe Art Museum, the art museum of the University of Miami, is to serve the University, and the Greater South Florida communities, and national and international visitors as a teaching and exhibiting resource through its permanent and borrowed collections.

Miami Art Museum

http://www.miamiartmuseum.org/

MAM collects, exhibits, presents and interprets international art, with a focus on works of the western hemisphere from the 1940s to the present. To complement the mission, MAM exhibits works outside this time frame for historical context.

Wolfsonian Museum

http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu/

This museum is located on Miami Beach and concentrates on modern art and design.  It is associated with FIU’s museum.