Arizona Museums
Arizona Museum for Youth
http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/amfy
The museum has just moved to a new facility. The website includes general
information, the Upcoming Exhibit, and Workshops. For Elementary School
teachers
ASU Art Museum
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
View images from the collection as well as find information about the
museum, the educational program, and links to other art related sites.
Redesigned in 2002. For teachers

Attributed to: Asher B. Durand. The Hunter. Oil on Canvas, 1846
Center for Creative Photography
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/ccphome.html
this museum and research center is devoted to photography as an art form.
The site includes: Exhibitions, Collections and Archives, Library, Education.
The calendar is on the first page.
Updated August 2003. For teachers
Heard Museum
http://www.heard.org
"The mission and philosophy of the Heard today is to educate the
public about the heritage and the living cultures and arts of Native peoples,
with an emphasis on the peoples of the Southwest." The site is newly
redesigned. In addition to the museum information the link to Education
and Research has Curriculum materials that can be purchased or downloaded.
The unit on Rain for Elementary School children is excellent.
Kept current. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers

Turtle. Helen Cordero
The Museum of Northern Arizona
http://www.musnaz.org
a private, non-profit museum devoted to preserving and interpreting the
Colorado Plateau including Native American artifacts.
Phoenix Art Museum
http://www.phxart.org
site includes: General Information, Exhibitions and Events, the Collection
(which has an increasing number of images), Classes and Talks.
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.scottsdalearts.org/smoca/salender.asp
Also includes information about the Scottsdale Center for the Arts
and Public Art
The University of Arizona Museum of Art
http://artmuseum.arizona.edu
Information about the museum, its collections and exhibitions, and educational
program.

Jack Roberts. Red Rock Crossing.
E-mail: jackroberts@sedona.net
National Museums
We’ve included the following museums because their
collections are exceptional and/or they have very special sections for
young patrons.
The British Museum
http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/
The Detroit Institute of Arts
http://www.diamondial.org/
You can search the collection by category.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/
The Smithsonian’s international modern and contemporary art museum
The Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/title.htm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://metmuseum.org
MOMA - the Museum of Modern Art
http://moma.org
The National Gallery
http://nga.gov
National Museum of African Art,Smithsonian
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/NMAFAgen.htm
Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
http://www.asia.si.edu/
Museum Web Page
Virtual Library Museum Pages
http://www.icom.org/vlmp
An exhaustive directory of on-line museums organized by country with listings
from Africa through the USA and The Rest of the World! Museums that have
large collections or are recommended are starred.
Images
AICT - Art Images for College Teaching
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community maintained
by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Includes: Ancient, Medieval
Era, Renaissance & Baroque and Non-Western. Slides are available.
For teachers
Allposters.com
http://www.allposters.com
A commercial site with thumbnail images that can be enlarged of artwork
available as posters. Fine Art Prints plus photography. Catalogued by
period and style. Images surrounded with sales information, but the collection
is large.

Richard Ozanne. Garden of Life #18.
Tel:: 800-408-0943
Artcyclopedia
http://artcyclopedia.com
a very helpful site that can be searched by:
- Artists by Name
- Artworks by Title
- Art Museums by Name/Place
- Movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism)
- Nationality
All Women Artists
For teachers
ArtServe
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
from the Australian National University. Has some 185,000 images mainly
from the Mediterranean Basin (but increasingly good on Kyoto, Nara, and
East Asia). Sorted by:
- Countries, 31 of them, excluding North and South America, China and
most of Africa – but California is there!
- Subject categories, 21 categories running from arms & armour
through painting to treasuries from churches
- Surveys
- Prints
- Museums and galleries
- Architecture and sources
- Medieval materials
- Art, architecture, museums arranged by country
- Sculpture
- Mediaeval materials
- Embellishments
- Film: Riefenstahl's
- Student projects
- Miscellaneous
Kept current. For teachers
Artstor
http://www.artstor.org
A source of images that will be licensed to not-for-profit U.S. institutions.
Individuals within the institutions will then be able to use the images.
In the testing phase. From the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Worth watching
to see if you’ll be able to use access the thousands of images that
are promised.
Mark Harden's Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/core.html
maintained by Mark Harden, the editor at Glyphs, and supported by contributions.
A remarkable site that catalogues images online.
- The Artchive includes essays and a list of Images on the Web for
some 250 artists; works also organized by school (e.g. abstract expressionism),
medium (sculptors), period (e.g. ancient art). He's beaten the copyright
problem by exhibiting posters.
- Juxtapositions offers virtual tours and includes essays on selected
artists, periods, etc.
- Theory & Criticism has critical essays with links to the images
- Art Links includes: Museums (links to a limited selection), Artists
(links to pages devoted to an artist), Resources (links to virtual tours)
- Gallery includes images and information about: Goya, Rembrandt, Beckman,
The First Impressionist Exhibition 1874, Sculpture Garden, 1925 The
Year in Review, Recent Acquisitions.
- Art CD Rom Reviews
Kept current. For teachers and, with guidance, students
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