LibGuides: IMAGE RESEARCH GUIDE: Art Museum Collections (list not exhaustive)

Art Museums with Searchable Online Collections

Some museums have images that are large enough to capture for use in presentation tools such as PowerPoint. Others have images which are large enough only for reference. Check the JSTOR collections for large museum images to use in presentations and papers. Below is merely a selected list of museums with images on-line.

Art Institute of Chicago
Asian Art Museum, San Franciso, CA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
British Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Full-text Catalogues NOTE: Not all of the texts will have all images due to copyright restrictions.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Musée du Louvre You can perform a simple search, advanced search, search by room, department and recent acquisitions. Knowledge of French is most useful for getting the most out of this database.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
National Gallery of Art, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK The UK National Portrait Gallery now provides free image downloads for academic and non-commercial use. See their website for more information.
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
NGA (U.S.) Images - High Resolution Downloads More than 25,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rijksmuseum Collection The Rijksmuseum is offering its entire collection free to the public to use, to manipulate, and to create new work.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
SMK, Copenhagen, Denmark
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Uffizi Gallery, Florence This site is busy, but you can get basic information about works, where they are located in the museum, and small images.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Walters Art Museum

Boatwright Memorial Library

Art Museums with Searchable Online Collections