Museums
US | International
- US
- Alabama
- The
Legacy Museum
- Montgomery. "Incarceration is situated on a site in
Montgomery where Black people were forced to labor in
bondage. Blocks from one of the most prominent slave auction
spaces in America, the Legacy Museum is steps away from the
rail station where tens of thousands of Black people were
trafficked during the 19th century."
- Arizona
- The
Heard Museum
- Phoenix. "[O]ne of the world’s finest destinations for
learning about American Indian arts and cultures." Way
expensive gift shop but some lovely stuff.
- California
- The
Broad
- Los Angeles. "[H]ome to the nearly 2,000 works of art in
the Broad collection, which is among the most prominent
holdings of postwar and contemporary art worldwide."
- The
Computer History Museum
- Mountain View
- Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
- comprising the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor
- J.
Paul Getty Museum
- Los Angeles
- The
GLBT History Museum
- San Francisco
- The
Hammer Museum
- Los Angeles Contemporary art and Armand Hammer's
collection
- LACMA
- Los Angeles
- Museum
of Contemporary Art
- Los Angeles
- Oakland
Museum of California
- Oakland - an amazing collection of works from the 19th
to the 21st centuries all about California or by
Californians
- Palm
Springs Art Museum
- San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Timken
Art Museum - San Diego
- American, Dutch, Flemish, French, Italian, and Spanish
paintings, plus Russian icons.
- Colorado
- Denver
Art Museum
- Denver
- The
Clyfford Still Museum
- Denver - one of my favorite abstract artists
- Connecticut
- Yale
Center for British Art
- New Haven, CT
- Yale
University Art Gallery
- New Haven, CT
- Florida
- Morse
Museum
- Winter Park. "The world’s most comprehensive collection
of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany"
- Museum
of Contemporary Art
- North Miami
- Museum
of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (scheduled
to open in 2018)
- St. Petersburg
- World Erotic
Art Museum
- Miami Beach
- Illinois
- The
Art Institute
-
Chicago
- DuSable
Museum of African American History
- Chicago
- The
Field Museum
- Chicago
- Hyde
Park Art Center
- Hyde Park
- Museum
of Contemporary Art
- Chicago
- Museum
of Science & Industry
- Chicago
- National
Museum of Mexican Art
- Chicago
- Peggy
Notebaert Nature Museum
- Lincoln Park
- Indiana
- Indianapolis
Museum of Art
- Indianapolis, IN
- Louisiana
- New Orleans
Museum of Art
- Maryland
- The
National Cryptologic Museum
- Ft. George G. Meade, MD
- Massachusetts
- Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute
- Williamstown, MA
- Harvard
University Art Museums
- Cambridge, MA
- Institute
of Contemporary Art
- Boston, MA
- Lizzie
Borden B&B & Museum
- Fall River
- Museum of Fine
Arts
- Boston
- The
Museum of Russian Icons
- Clinton, MA Largest collection in the North America and
in Massachusetts yet. Who new?
- The Norman
Rockwell Museum
- Stockbridge, MA
- Michigan
- Detroit
Institute of Arts
- Detroit, MI
- Grand
Rapids Art Museum
- Minnesota
- Minneapolis
Institute of Arts
- Walker
Art Center,
- Minneapolis, MN
- Nebraska
- International
Quilt Study Center & Museum
- Lincoln, NE
- New Jersey
- The
Newark Museum
- New Mexico
- Albuquerque,
NM museums
- Georgia
O'Keefe Museum
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- The
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
- Stanta Fe, NM
- New York
- The
Frick Collection
- New York
- Guggenheim
Museum
- New York
- The
Jewish Museum
- New York
- The
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
- New York
- Lower
East Side Tenement Museum
- New York
- The
Martin House Complex - Frank Lloyd Wright building
- Buffalo
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art
- New York - See also their MetPublications
portal where you can search TOC and other bibliographic
information of their publications and even download full-text
of some of them. How kewl is that?
- The
Morgan Library & Museum
- New York
- Museum of
Jewish Heritage
- New York
- Museum of
the City of New York
- New York
- MoMA
- New York
- Museum
of the moving image
- New York
- The
Nassau County Museum of Art - Roslyn Harbor.
- "The permanent collection . . . spans American and
European art of the 19th and 20th centuries." The 145
acres of the former Frick Estate constitute one of the
largest publicly accessible sculpture gardens on the East
Coast.
- Neue
Galerie
- New York. Established in 2001, with an incredible
collection of Viennese Secessionist artists like Klimpt
and Schiele
- New
Museum of Contemporary Art
- New York Now in its new location on Prince St. & the
Bowery
- New
York Jazz Museum
- The
Noguchi Museum
- Long Island City
- The
Queens Museum of Art
- The Rubin
Museum of Art - New York
- the first museum in the Western World dedicated to the
art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions.
- Studio
Museum Harlem
- New York
- Whitney
Museum
- New York
- Ohio
- Cleveland
Institute of Art
- "Every year the Cleveland Institute of Art builds on an
internationally recognized heritage of excellence and
innovation that dates back to 1882. That year the school
was chartered as the Western Reserve School of Design for
Women. "
- Cleveland
Museum of Art
- "The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded in 1913 'for
the benefit of all the people forever.'"
- Cleveland
Museum of Contemporary Art
- "The new MOCA Cleveland, the first building designed in
the United States by Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA),
serves as a catalyst for creativity and growth in a
cosmopolitan Cleveland neighborhood, which is home to one
of the country’s largest concentrations of cultural and
educational institutions."
- Pennsylvania
- Brandywine
Museum of Art
- Chadds Ford. "Renowned for its holdings of the Wyeth
family of artists."
- National
Watch and Clock Museum
- Columbia
- Philadelphia
Museum of Art
- Philadelphia
- Andy
Warhol Museum
- Pittsburgh
- Texas
- South Carolina
- International
African American Museum
- Charleston. "This is a museum where you can create your own
experience—from quiet reflection in the African Ancestors
Memorial Garden to an immersive, eye-opening tour through our
galleries to transformative discoveries in the Center for
Family History. Check for updates, read our guidelines, and
begin to plan your own journey."
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- Texas
- Kimbell
Art Museum - Fort Worth
- "[W]idely regarded as one of the most outstanding
architectural achievements of the modern era. Designed by
the American architect Louis I. Kahn."
- Vermont
- Shelburne
Museum
- Impressionist paintings, folk art, quilts and textiles,
decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and a
dazzling array of 17th- to 20th-century artifacts
- Virginia
- United
States National Slavery Museum
- Fredericksburg
- Washington
- Seattle
Art Museum
- Washington, D.C.
- International
Spy Museum
- Washington, D.C.
- Newseum
- Washington, DC. An interesting sideline, their "Today's
Front Pages" from about 80 newspapers around the
world. A map is here.
-
Smithsonian Museums
- Washington, DC
- Wisconsin
- Chazen
Museum of Art
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Milwaukee
Art Museum
- Rahr-West
Museum
- Manitowoc
- Austria
- Klimt
Center
- Attersee. Villa Paulick in Attersee, his summer home for 15 years.
- Salzburg
- Museum
der Moderne - IMHO the most interesting of the bunch but
that's only because I have a penchant for Nolde, Kokoschka, et
al. Unfortunately not a lot of images on the website - at
least that I could find.
- Salzburger Kunstverein - founded in 1844 & "one of the
first Austrian associations to focus on the sale and
exhibition of contemporary art" (NY
Times)
- Salzburg
Museum - relatively new - founded in 2007. "Precious art
objects, aesthetic presentation and an exciting conceptual
approach"
- Vienna
- Museums
Quartier - one of the world's largest complexes for
modern art and culture
- Leopold
Museum - Schiele & Klimpt & the Viennese
Secession.
- Secession
House - built for the Viennese Secessionist artists to
exhibit their work. It continues to display contemporary art.
- Belgium
- Horta
Museum
- Jugengstil house designed and built for Victor Horta by J
.M. Olbrich, the same architect who designed the
Sezession House in Vienna. Apparently it remains closed
due to a dipute among Horta's heirs. Many more pictures of the
interior available here.
- Museum
of Cocoa & Chocolate - Brussels
- Mundaneum
- Mons. Paul Otlet's 19th century attempt to develop the World
Wide - or at least to assemble all the world's knowledge. On
file cards yet.
- Canada
- Leacock
Museum - Orillia
- Croatia
- Modern
Art Museum - Dubrovnik
- Denmark
- Hirschsprung
Collection - Copenhagen
- England
- The
American Museum in Britain
- Bath
- The
Anderson Collection
- Norwich. Housed in the Sainsbury
Centre for Visual Arts. "[R]epresents the French
exponents of art nouveau associated with the Ecole de Nancy
and makers who, both in France and Britain, worked across a
range of disciplines such as glassware and furniture,
metalware and jewellery." Here
are some more pictures from the BBC.
- The
Bate Collection
- Oxford. [O]ne of the most magnificent collections of
musical instruments in the world.
- Cragside
- Victorian house museum
- FitzwilliamMuseum
- Cambridge
- Lebrecht
Music & Art Photo Library - photos of, among
other things, performance spaces world-wide
- London house museums
- Apsley
House
- Home of the Duke of Wellington, hosts one of London's
best art collections
- Dennis
Severs House
- Rather than freezing the décor in one particular
historical moment, Mr. Severs showed how a house would
have evolved over successive generations in The hands of a
single family.
- Eltham
Palace and Gardens
- 1930s Art Deco decadence, childhood home of Henry VIII
-
Leighton House Museum
- Frederic, Lord Leighton's home, is one of the London’s
most remarkable 19th-century houses and a consummate
summation of the period’s Orientalist taste, featuring
Leighton's collection of more than 1,000 Islamic tiles,
Located on the edge of Holland Park in Kensington.
- Sir John
Soane’s Museum
- designed both to live in, and as a setting for his
antiquities and his works of art.
- The
Emory Walker House
- "[T]he last authentic Arts and Crafts interior in
Britain. [T]he decoration and furnishings preserved as
they were in the lifetime of the printer Emery Walker
(1851-1933), a great friend and mentor to William Morris."
- Tate
London
- The
Victoria and Albert Museum - London
- Very interesting textile collection
- The
Watts Cemetery Chapel
- Compton. "[D]esigned by Mary Watts wife of Internationally
renowned Victorian artist, George Frederic Watts. . . a
wonderful fusion of influences, including Art Nouveau,
Celtic, Romanesque and Egyptian." Better images are here.
- France
- Alcatian
Museum
- Strasbourg
- Centre
Pompidou - Paris
- Chapelle
du Rosaire de Vence
- Vence. Gorgeous windows designed by Matisse. And a
beautiful painting on the interior lid of a Dodd harpsichord
(at least when I was there during the last century) that
goes unmentioned in this Wikipedia article.
- Fondation
Louis Vuitton - Paris
- "to promote and support contemporary artistic creation for
a wide French and international audience."
- Fondation
Maeght St. Paul de Vence
- Amazing comtemporary collection & sculpture garden.
- Galeries
Bartoux
- Various places in France (including Courchevel &
Honfleur & Paris & one the U.S.)
- Louvre
Museum - Paris
- Le
Magazin - Grenoble
- Kind of a fussy home page. Contemporary art
- Musée
d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Musée
d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
- Musée
du quai Branly - Paris
-
Musée Carnavalet
- 100 rooms dedicated to Paris' history from the beginning
to today. Free admission
- Musée-château
d'Annecy
- apparently doesn't have its own website. According to the
NY Times it contains "artifacts and contemporary art."
- Musée
Lalique - Wingen-sur-Moder
- W-s-M was the village where René Lalique chose to build
his factory in the aftermath of the First World War.
Situated in the heart of the Northern Vosges, a region with
a long-standing glassmaking tradition, it is now the only
place in the world where the brand's crystalware is
produced.
- Musée
d'Orsay - Paris
- Musée
de Grenoble
- Home to France's best collection of modern art outside
Paris according to the NY Times
- Musée
des Arts décoratifs - Paris
- Musée
des Confluences - Lyon
- Avec plus de 2,2 millions d'objets, les collections du
musée des Confluences comptent parmi les plus riches en
France. Can you tell it's a French-language site?
- Musée
Jacquemart-André - Paris
- Built in the 19th century originally as a home to display
M. André's art collection.
- Musée
Maillol - Paris
- Musée
national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny -
Paris
- Musée
national Picasso-Paris
- Musée
Gustave Moreau, Paris
- Musée
Marc Chagall, Nice
- Amazing paintings comprising his Le Message Biblique
- Musée
Matisse, Nice
- Le nouveau
musée des Arts décoratifs - Paris
- Germany
- East
Frisian Tea Museum/Ostfriesischen Teemuseum
- Norden
- German
museums by geographical area
- From wikipedia.
- Vitra
- Weil am Rhein - a Swiss family-owned company [that] not
only makes furniture and creates retail environments, but
also has its own Campus with buildings by leading
international architects
-
Museum Island - Berlin
- Home of the Altes Museum, Bode Museum, Pergamon Museum
& others
- Iceland
- Husvik
Culture House
- Húsavík
- Italy
- Venice
- Palazzo
Grassi - François Pinault's private collection of modern
and contemporary art.
- Lithuania
- Anastazija
and Antanas Tamoŝaitis Gallery - Lithuanian folk costumes,
sashes, articles of clothing, as well aw, tapestries, gobelins,
paintings and graphic art works designed by Anastazija and
Antanas Tamoŝaitis
- Netherlands
- Cobra
Museum of Modern Art - Amstelveen, NL Named after the
cities of its founding artists (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam)
-
Leiden American Pilgrim Museum - En route to what would
be the U.S., many Pilgrims escaped to Leiden.
- den Haag
- Gemeente
Museum
- "a large collection embracing the fields of modern art,
fashion, the decorative arts and musical instruments" and,
apparently, music manuscripts
- Koninklijk
Huisarchief
- The Royal Archives includes the papers, the library,
photographic archives and art collection of the Oranges. It is
part of the Department of the Royal Family.
- Mauritz
Huis
- A
collection of Dutch masterpieces from the Dutch Golden-Age,
including excellent paintings by Vermeer (two when I was
there), Rembrandt, Steen and Frans Hals.
- De
Mesdag Collectie
- The most important collection of the 19th century Hague
School & French
Barbizon works in the world.
- Hals
Frans Museum - Groot Heiligland. "Frans Hals, the most
famous Haarlem painter of the Golden Age." The museum hosts "the
largest collection of paintings by Frans Hals in the world" as
well as works by other artists of the period.
- Hermitage,
Amsterdam - the Netherlands branch of St. Petersburg's
museum
- Kröller-Müller
museum - a most amazing collection outside Amsterdam in Otterlo,
NL. It has roomsful of Van Goghs, a vast collection of other
artists, and is surrounded by an incredible sculpture garden and
acres and acres of park.
- Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen - Rotterdam.
- Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam
-
The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art - Spanbroek (near
Hoorn if that means anything to you. Interesting "Magic Realism"
collection including some Magritte & de Chirico. Closed in
2009. Part of its collection is now in the MORE
museum in Gorssel.
- Textiel
Museum - Tilburg Great collection including examples from
the Amsterdam School.
- Online
- The
Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture
- In the golden age of the Métis Nation, circa 1816-1869, the
Métis traversed the landscape of present-day Western Canada
and the American Great Plains
- Poland
- Warsaw
- Chopin
Museum
- Scotland
- The
Hunterian
- Glasgow. "[H]ome to the world’s largest permanent display of
the work of James McNeill Whistler, the largest single holding
of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and The
Mackintosh House, the reassembled interiors from his
Glasgow home."
- Slovakia
-
Beekeeping Museum
- Kráľová pri Senci
- Clock
Museum
- Bratislava
- Danubiana
- Bratislava - "The Danubiana Museum of Modern Art, Bratislava
was opened in 2000 on the tip of peninsula on the river
Danube."
- Slovenia
- Museum of
Contemporary Art Metelkova
- Ljubljana - "Moderna galerija houses the national collection
of 20th century Slovene art (paintings, sculptures, prints and
drawings as well as photography, video and electronic media
collections) and a collection of works from the former
Yugoslavia. The national collection presents the basic stages
in the development of the Slovene tradition of modern and
contemporary art from the beginning of the 20th century
onwards."
- Sweden
- Göteborg
-
Göteborgs Konstmuseum
- Röhsska
Design Museum (sorry - no English version)
- The Zorn
Museum
- Mora. Anders Zorn was a contemporary and competitor of
Boston's beloved John
Singer Sargent.
- Russia
- André
Bely Memorial Apartment - Moscow
- Includes the full text of his memoirs
(for translating?)
- Art
Museum - Tomsk
- The
Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
- Perm
Museum of Modern Art
- Moscow
Design Musuem
- opened 20.Nov.2012
- Perm
State Art Gallery
-
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts - Moscow
- In both Russian & English
- State
Historical Museum - Moscow (in Russian)
- The
Tretiakov Gallery - Moscow
- Vinzavod
- contemporary art museum in Moscow
- Spain
- Prado.
Madrid
- Switzerland
- Basel
- Beyeler
Museum
- Kunsthalle
Basel - Contemporary art
- Kunstmuseum
Basel
- Museum
Tinguely - dedicated to this intriguing Swiss artist
- Schaulager
- contemporary art
- The
Greisinger Museum
- Jenins (southeast from Zurich). Major Tolkein collection.
- The Klee
Zentrum
- Bern
- Kunstmuseum
- St. Gallen.
