Art

Many major museums have robust digital collections where you can view high-quality images and read about the museum’s objects. These will usually be linked as “Collections” or “Art” from the museum’s home page.

These collections pages often also include a bibliography of related scholarship or a list of publications in which the object has appeared. 

A selection of museum collections are linked below.

Google Arts & Culture Collections

These museums have collections images available via this Google project. 

New York       

American Folk Art Museum

Brooklyn Museum         

The Cloisters        

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

The Frick Collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Heckscher Museum  (Huntington)

The United States Holocaust Memoral Museum

Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages  (Stony Brook Village)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Morgan Library and Museum

Museum of Modern Art 

Museum of the City of New York

Museum of the Moving Image

New York Historical Society

New York Public Library

Parrish Art Museum  (Southampton)

Queens Museum of Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

United States                                                                

Art Institute of Chicago

The Barnes Foundation  (Merion, Pa)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Detroit Institute of Arts

deYoung Fine Arts Museum  (San Francisco)

The J. P. Getty Museum  (Los Angeles)

Greenfield Village  (Dearborn, MI)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum  (Boston)

Museum of Fine Arts  (Boston)

Museum of Fine Arts  (Houston)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

National Gallery of Art  (Wash. DC)

National Portrait Gallery  (Wash. DC)

Seattle Art Museum

Shelburne Museum  (Shelburne, VT)

The Smithsonian Museums