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From the Archives (Guggenheim)
60+ art catalogues from the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Available to read online. Heads up to Open Culture for this one.
museum  e-books  art-history  art-gallery  painting  paintings  modern-art  new-york-city  internet-archive  open-culture 
january 2012 by stephenjgrant
Photography (Victoria and Albert Museum)
To celebrate the opening of the V&A;'s new photography (snapping) gallery...
photographers  photography  museum  V&A;  creative-arts  gallery 
october 2011 by stephenjgrant
Art Project (Google)
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
art  art-history  painting  museums  galleries  google  virtualisation  museum 
february 2011 by stephenjgrant
things magazine
things magazine, an occasional weblog (and even more occasional magazine) devoted to curatorial tendencies, random collections, objects old and new
museum  blog  arts  architecture  magazine  ezine 
january 2011 by stephenjgrant
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, promote human dignity, and prevent genocide. Contains Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
education  genocide  germany  judaism  jewish  holocaust  museum  politics  history  ant-semitism 
november 2010 by stephenjgrant
Verner Panton
This online museum, which is an unofficial fan site, contains the complete work of furniture designer Verner Panton (1926-1998
architecture  art  furniture  design  interiors  lighting  museum  retro  interior-design  denmark 
september 2010 by stephenjgrant
Explore & Learn (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Explore and Learn was developed as the educational part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has an ever changing and large source of materials.
art  arts  artists  art-history  museum  gallery  resources  education  culture 
september 2010 by stephenjgrant
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
education  reference  history  art-history  arts  painting  gallery  humanities  museums  timeline  museum 
february 2010 by stephenjgrant
National Maritime Museum Collections Online
The National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich, have a collection of over 2 million objects about the sea, ships, astronomy and time. Collections Online gives you access to over 12,000 of these and is frequently updated and expanded.
history  uk  art  archive  maps  museum  gallery  digitisation  astronomy  collection  resources  sea  maritime  jisc 
october 2009 by stephenjgrant
Making Sense of Modern Art: The Sixties and Seventies (SFMOMA)
Making Sense of Modern Art offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. This section of the program explores the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s through the work of eight groundbreaking artists.
art  art-history  modern-art  interactive  museum  gallery 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Making Sense of Modern Art: The Late 20th Century (SFMOMA)
Making Sense of Modern Art offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. This section of the program explores developments in the art of the late 20th century by focusing on six contemporary artists and their varying approaches toward artistic media, methods, subject matter, and content.
art  art-history  modern-art  interactive  museum  gallery 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Making Sense of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Making Sense of Modern Art is an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. The program's rich-media format enables you to "zoom in" on full-screen details of individual artworks, explore excerpts from archival videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.
modern-art  art  art-history  interactive  gallery  museum 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection (SFMOMA)
Explore 15 masterpieces from the Anderson Collection through streaming audio and video clips as well as a zoom function for up-close-and-personal viewing. Featured artists include Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella, and Willem de Kooning.
modern-art  art  art-history  interactive  museum  gallery 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Magritte and Surrealism (SFMOMA)
Inspired by Freud's recently published insights into the hidden reaches of the unconscious, the Surrealists sought to subordinate the rational mind in favor of the liberation of instinct.
art  art-history  surrealism  gallery  museum  interactive  magritte 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Making Sense of Modern Art: The Early 20th Century (SFMOMA)
Making Sense of Modern Art offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. This section of the program explores the art scene of the early 20th century, a time marked by the perpetual reinvention and reinterpretation of art's social role and formal properties.
art-history  art  interactive  gallery  museum  modern-art 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Edward Weston (SFMOMA )
In his photographs Weston strove to capture the formal essence of his subject matter and present it as a revelation. Emphasizing line, careful cropping, and the interplay of shadows and light, Weston turned peppers, cabbages, egg slicers, rocks, and roots into objects of mystery and wonder.
photography  photographer  museum  gallery  interactive 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Dorothea Lange (SFMOMA)
A prominent documentary photographer and photojournalist, Lange sought to demonstrate the impact of social and economic circumstances on people’s lives. Her best-known photographs put a human face on the tragic consequences of the Great Depression in 1930s America.
photography  photographer  gallery  exhibitions  museum 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Frida Kahlo (SFMOMA)
Kahlo's fantastical imagery and folkloric style, influenced by Mexican popular art, earned her recognition among the Surrealists, but her intriguing persona and unmistakable originality propelled her beyond the confines of a specific movement to become a leading figure in modern art.
art  interactive  museum  gallery  art-history  painting  mexico 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Ansel Adams at 100 (SF MOMA)
Explore the world of ideas behind Ansel Adams's photography through archival footage of the artist at work, audio commentaries by art historians, and words from Adams himself.
photography  audio  art  interactive  photographer  ansel-adams  museum  gallery 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Smithsonian American Art Museum
These American Art Museum online features contain interactive or media-rich assets that can easily be used by educators in the classroom. Students can learn by viewing media or taking part in various online activities.
education  art  museum  art-history  usa  art-gallery 
september 2009 by stephenjgrant
Silicon Valley Art Museum
SVAM’s mission statement is to create new experiences for the global community through the interaction of art, science and technology
technology  arts  art-history  art-gallery  museum  science  creative-arts 
august 2009 by stephenjgrant
Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design
The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin is concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), the most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century.
education  history  art  museum  gallery  arts  architecture  archive  art-history  bauhaus  crafts  modernism 
august 2009 by stephenjgrant
The Museum of Online Museums (MoOM)
On the MoOM main page you, will find the current exhibitions. The main collection is in the center column, divided into three subsections. On the left you'll find the five current featured exhibitions.
education  reference  gallery  museum  art  culture  images  photography  resources  history  library  art-history 
august 2009 by stephenjgrant
Getty Museum Video Gallery
Go behind the scenes at the J. Paul Getty Museum to learn about the collection, art-making techniques, conservation projects, and exhibitions.
education  video  learning  art-history  museum  gallery  history  videos  art  culture 
august 2009 by stephenjgrant
Wella Museum
Website of the Wella Museum, part of the Wella company involved in hair care.
beauty  cosmetics  history  museum  hairdressing  hair 
august 2009 by stephenjgrant
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive (USHMM)
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. The Archive serves as a comprehensive informational and archival resource worldwide for moving image materials pertaining to the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II.
videos  video  film  history  museum  archives  ww2  holocaust  world-war-two  fascism  war  second-world-war 
june 2009 by stephenjgrant
ArtThink (SFMOMA)
ArtThink is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's curriculum site, which provides theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, history and social studies.
education  art-history  history  museum  communication  art  paintings  social-studies  visual-arts 
may 2009 by stephenjgrant
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore & Learn
Designed for use in the classroom, these online features and printable files (PDFs) help educators introduce to their students the richness and diversity of works in various collections of the Metropolitan Museum.
education  art  museum  art-history  e-books  e-learning  resources 
may 2009 by stephenjgrant
Lake Balls Museum
The Worlds first museum, on the Internet dedicated to the history of the golf ball
sports  museum  golf  sports-history 
may 2009 by stephenjgrant
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Sorry. I'd forgotten...
scotland  museum  travel  tourism  art  glasgow  museums  galleries 
may 2009 by stephenjgrant
Exploratorium
The museum of science, art and human perception. Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
education  resources  science  museum  reference  psychology  interactive  art  physics  chemistry  biology  astronomy  teaching 
april 2009 by stephenjgrant
Open Exhibits
Open Exhibits will develop a library of extensible software modules for all major platforms that exhibit developers can configure in almost unlimited ways. Built using the popular Adobe Flash and Flex authoring tools, museum professionals will be able to creative innovative floor and Web-based exhibits more easily and inexpensively.
software  open-source  education  design  museum  museums  project 
april 2009 by stephenjgrant
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in
multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
education  history  world  museum  reference  books  library  library2.0  global  digitisation 
april 2009 by stephenjgrant
ArtBabble
What is ArtBabble? Art-Bab-ble [ahrt-bab-uhl] noun; verb (used without object) -bled, -bling: 1. free flowing conversation, about art, for anyone. 2. a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion - no art degree required.
education  web2.0  art  video  archive  museum  art-gallery  social-networking 
april 2009 by stephenjgrant
Women, Power and Politics (International Museum of Women)
An online exhibition hosted by the International Museum of Women which traces the history of women's participation in public and political life. It includes sections on womens suffrage, political campaigning and community empowerment projects.
history  politics  exhibitions  education  museum  women  feminism  gender 
april 2009 by stephenjgrant
IEEE Global History Network
The IEEE Global History Network is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of innovation in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and computing, and all their related fields.
history  technology  museum  engineering  electronics  electrical-engineering  ieee 
march 2009 by stephenjgrant
Newseum
The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.
history  news  journalism  museum  interactive  newspaper  newspapers 
february 2009 by stephenjgrant
The Forward Thinking Museum
The Forward Thinking Museum is a virtual art museum containing more than 100 exhibitions and videos. Visitors can view image exhibitions or watch video exhibitions.
interactive  art  photography  art-history  museum  gallery 
february 2009 by stephenjgrant
Architectural Drawings (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Architectural drawings play a key role in how buildings are created. In this series of videos Michael Snodin, former Head of Design in the Word & Image Department at the V&A, talks about a selection of architectural drawings from the V&A and RIBA drawings collections.
videos  museum  architecture  drawing  construction 
february 2009 by stephenjgrant
Mies in Berlin / Mies in America - (MoMA / Whitney)
This website records two exhibitions that were held in New York in 2001: Mies in Berlin and Mies in America. The Mies in Berlin exhibition focused on the early career of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, from the time that he arrived in Berlin in 1905 to when he emigrated to the United States in 1938. The Mies in America exhibition was the "first comprehensive examination of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's architectural career in the United States"
art  art-history  design  architecture  museum  buildings 
february 2009 by stephenjgrant
Louvre Museum virtual tours
Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre....Come along on a virtual tour and enjoy the view
education  art-history  art  museum  paintings  france  virtual  gallery 
february 2009 by stephenjgrant
National Galleries of Scotland's Photostream (Flickr)
National Galleries of Scotland looks after one of the world's finest collections of Western art ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. These holdings include the National Collection of Scottish art which we are proud to display in an international context.
photographs  photography  history  museum  scotland  art-gallery  gallery 
january 2009 by stephenjgrant
Europeana
Europeana is a European Commission funded portal which is currently working to build a virtual European library offering free access to Europe's cultural resources. It includes millions of texts (manuscripts, papers, ebooks), images (photographs, maps), films (moving images, videos, film clips, television broadcasts) and sounds from Europe's main research libraries, archives and galleries.
resources  reference  culture  europe  museum  european-union 
january 2009 by stephenjgrant
The Demarco Digital Archive
The digital archive comprises photographs plus documents, publications and other printed material either created or gathered by Richard Demarco. The digital records are drawn from the Demarco archives held by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Demarco European Art Foundation.
scotland  photography  museum  art  artists  art-gallery  archive 
december 2008 by stephenjgrant
Walt Disney Family Museum
The Walt disney Family Museum website contains a biography of Walt Disney and a series of interviews with family and friends. A series of illustrated articles describes the making of several animation and live features, often preferring personal point of views and experiences to dry descriptions.
museum  history  film  walt-disney  animation  cartoons  cinema  media-studies 
november 2008 by stephenjgrant
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Companion to a 2008/2009 exhibit exploring painter Vincent Van Gogh's "nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which often combine with other longstanding themes of his art -- peasant life, sowers, wheatfields, and the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene." From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
painting  painters  art-history  museum  gallery  exhibitions  art  van-gogh 
november 2008 by stephenjgrant
Leisure, Travel & Tourism Resources (National Maritime Museum)
This section of the National Maritime Museum (NMM) website provides free online resources for business studies and leisure, travel and tourism modules for key stage 4 and post-16 students.
resources  teaching  travel  tourism  museum  marketing  customer-care 
october 2008 by stephenjgrant
Royal Collection - e-Gallery
The e-Gallery is an ever-expanding, multimedia catalogue of some of the greatest works in the Royal Collection.
uk  gallery  art-history  paintings  painters  museum  socialism  collections  art  archive 
october 2008 by stephenjgrant
World Timelines
Have you ever looked at an exhibit in a museum and wondered what was happening in other countries at that time? Worldtimelines.org.uk gives you the opportunity to find out.
museums  museum  timeline  timelines  history  world 
october 2008 by stephenjgrant
Museum Box
If you could put items into a box that described your life, what would you include? This provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
history  virtualisation  museum  web2.0  collaboration  community 
october 2008 by stephenjgrant
V&A Theatre Collections Online
The V&A Theatre Collections online provides access to information and materials celebrating the UK’s unique performance heritage.
theatre  archives  uk  museum  history  performing-arts  drama 
september 2008 by stephenjgrant
Musée du Louvre - OpenLearn
The Musée du Louvre houses 35,000 works of art, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, but how were they brought together as a collection? This unit examines the importance of art through history and the impact of personality and conflict.
art  art-history  museum  open-courseware  open-university 
september 2008 by stephenjgrant
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
art  art-history  timeline  history  sculpture  painting  museum  reference 
september 2008 by stephenjgrant
Frank Gehry, Architect | Guggenheim Museum
California-based architect Frank Gehry has continually shattered conventional notions of what architecture might be, creating what have been acclaimed as "powerful essays in primal geometric form." - Past Exhibitions -
museum  architecture  art  construction  exhibitions 
september 2008 by stephenjgrant
Global Museum
You've found Global Museum - the award winning webzine
museum  art-gallery  magazine  webzine 
september 2008 by stephenjgrant
The Museum of Modern Art's Channel - YouTube
Founded in 1929, MoMA was the first art museum devoted to the modern era. Over its 75-year history, the Museum has built a collection that includes some 150,000 objects; 22,000 films; & in its library & research archives, over 300,000 books & periodicals.
museum  art-history  art-gallery  modern-art  video  youtube 
july 2008 by stephenjgrant
The Delta Blues Museum
The Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, Mississippi, was founded in 1979, its aim to allow visitors to explore and appreciate blues music.
blues  music  museum  musicology  Mississippi 
april 2008 by stephenjgrant
Motown Historical Museum Detroit
Motown Historical Museum is one of Detroit’s most popular tourist destinations. Each year, the museum attracts thousands of visitors from across the nation and around the globe.
motown  museum  music  detroit  Tamla-Motown  history 
december 2007 by stephenjgrant
Stax Museum of American soul music artists records exhibits merchandise in Memphis
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music, located at the original site of the legendary Stax Records in the heart of Soulsville USA in Memphis, Tennessee, welcomes you to all things Stax.
music  memphis  soul  stax  history  museum 
december 2007 by stephenjgrant
The National Museum of Computing
In collaboration with Bletchley Park Trust, we are establishing the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Bletchley is home to Colossus and World War II code breaking, and is now world recognised as the birthplace of electronic computing.
computers  history  ict  computing  museum 
november 2007 by stephenjgrant
Falconer Friends
Assisting the falconer museum, forres
forres  museum  highlands  Morayshire 
september 2007 by stephenjgrant
Collect Britain
Site from British Library. Putting history in place - over 90000 images & sounds from the UK & beyond.
collections  historical  history  art  museum  Library  Britain  uk  gallery  images 
june 2007 by stephenjgrant

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