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•  Artwave - directory for Canada
•  Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery - at the University of Victoria
•  McMichael Canadian Art Collection - Canadian public art galleries, collecting exclusively Canadian art; including the Group of Seven, First Nations art, and Inuit art
•  Teylers Museum - the nation's oldest public museum, with diverse collections of art and scientific objects
•  Toledo Museum of Art - one of America's finest art museums, containing more than 30,000 works of art of the highest quality
•  Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery - dedicated to Tom Thomson (1877-1917), considered one of the most important and influential early Canadian artists

•  Glenbow Museum - art and history center offering visitors a cultural museum, an art gallery, a library and archives of western Canadian history. Site includes virtual exhibits and this week in Canadian history
•  University of Calgary Nickle Arts Museum - hosts public lectures and special events
•  West End Gallery - in Edmonton

•  Art Gallery of the South Okanagan - on-line exhibitions, complete with curatorial essays
•  Vancouver Art Gallery - information and images about exhibitions, the permanent collection, programs and events, hours, admissions, memberships, and more
•  Vancouver East Cultural Centre - includes a calendar of events and a Quicktime VR tour of the facility

•  Winnipeg Art Gallery - mandated to develop and maintain Manitoba’s visual arts heritage. Offers collection and membership information

•  Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador - at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland

•  Art Gallery of Ontario
•  Art Gallery of Sudbury - Galerie d'art de Sudbury - public art gallery
•  Burlington Art Centre - public art museum serving southern Ontario, with exhibitions of regional and national Canadian artists and contemporary ceramics
•  Cornwall Regional Art Gallery (CRAG) - community art gallery featuring contemporary exhibitions, classes, and more
•  National Gallery of Canada - in Ottawa; permanent home of Canada's exceptional national art collection
•  Yahoo! Royal Ontario Museum
•  Slate Art Guide - Toronto - art galleries, art museums and art events

•  Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - The Permanent Collection, comprising of over 5,000 artworks, focuses on artists associated with Nova Scotia and outstanding examples of regional and Canadian art
•  Confederation Centre of the Arts - in Charlottetown; home to the Charlottetown Festival and Canada's family classic, "Anne of Green Gables"

•  Le Musée de la Civilisation à Québec
•  Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent Museum - musée d'etnologie et d'art contemporain avec une collection virtuelle
•  Musée du Québec / Museum of Quebec - collection includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative art, and installations
•  Muséocapitale - Québec City - represents the RIMQ, a group of museums throughout the Québec City area. Institutions are organized by name and by subject area
•  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Collection of paintings, sculptures and decorative art, representing all movements and periods. 26,000 works in its Permanent Collection

•  Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts - performing arts theatre and convention centre

•  Museo de Monterrey - official site features images and information about the permanent art collection, temporary exhibitions, and a virtual tour (in English and Spanish)

•  Bentley Gallery - includes information on current and recent exhibitions
•  Eliphante - a 3 acre art installation. Photos, music, and stories about this sculptured environment
•  MARS Artspace - Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado (Salt River Art Movement) is Arizona's premiere alternative artspace
•  Scottsdale Center for the Arts
•  Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
•  Yahoo! Tucson Museum of Art
•  University of Arizona - Museum of Art
•  Yahoo! Arizona State University - Art Museum

•  Chroma Gallery - contemporary art by Arkansas artists
•  University of Arkansas Museum

•  ArtScene [LA] - a guide to art galleries and museums in Southern California
•  Art-Tech - showcasing artists and exhibitions integrating art and technology
•  ARTsiteLA.com - guide to artists and galleries in the Los Angeles area
•  ArtSlab - individual and collaborative student work
•  Aurobora Press - invitational fine art press dedicated to the monotype. Gallery features exhibitions of artworks published by Aurobora
•  Yahoo! Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
•  Bowers Museum of Cultural Art - featuring a collection of California paintings and artifacts
•  California Center for the Arts Museum
•  Drora's Louvre
•  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - including the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
•  Yahoo! Fowler Museum of Cultural History
•  Fresno Metropolitan Museum - featuring all exhibits, a rotation of monthly special exhibits and a yearly calendar of events
•  The Getty® - in Los Angeles
•  Irvine Museum - dedicated to the preservation and display of California art of the Impressionist Period
•  Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts - at Stanford; includes the historic Museum building, Rodin Sculpture Garden, and outdoor sculpture areas
•  Laguna Art Museum
•  Yahoo! Los Angeles County Museum of Art
•  Mexican Museum, San Francisco - art and cultural institution located in the Fort Mason Center
•  Yahoo! Museum of Art and History
•  Neighborhood Center of the Arts - in Nevada City
•  Yahoo! Palm Springs Desert Museum
•  San Diego Art Institute - seeks to advance the visual arts through exhibition, outreach, and education
•  Yahoo! San Diego Museum Of Art
•  San Francisco Art Commission Gallery - an important venue for emerging to mid-career artists
•  San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum - includes both national and international holdings, with special emphasis on the rich heritage of the live performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area
•  San Jose Center for Latino Arts
•  San Jose Museum of Art
•  Santa Clara University - de Saisset Museum - event and exhibit information; caretaker of the California History Collection
•  Thacher Gallery - University of San Francisco
•  UC Berkeley - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - offers exceptional art and film exhibition programs and theater schedule. Online searchable or browse-able database of over 12,000 film notes on world cinema and more
•  Yahoo! USC Interactive Art Museum at the Fisher Gallery
•  Ventura County Museum of History & Art - features the art and history of Ventura County, California, including the George Stuart Historical Figures
•  Artists' (Invisible, Floating) Museum of Actual Art - with images of art, artist profiles, links, and much more

•  Denver Art Museum
•  A Gallery of Originals and Prints by Chris Bradley - featuring the fantasy and contemporary art of artist Chris Bradley; this website features fantasy illustrations and original oil paintings; this site also features limited edition and giclee prints on canvas for all those serious art collectors

•  Eli Whitney Museum
•  Stamford Museum & Nature Center - art, a farm stocked with animals, a spectacular playground, and more
•  Yale Center for British Art - houses the most comprehensive collection of English paintings, prints, drawings, rare books, and sculpture outside Great Britain

•  Delaware Art Museum

•  Yahoo! Corcoran Museum/School of Art
•  Columbia Arts Center - visual and performing arts center for Southwestern Washington and Northwestern Oregon
•  Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C. - exhibiting contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and multimedia
•  Yahoo! National Gallery of Art
•  Yahoo! Smithsonian Institution
•  National Gallery of Art - Find general information about the gallery as well as exhibitions, the collection, resources and a gallery shop
•  National Museum of American Art - Houses a collection of some 37,500 American paintings, sculpture, folk art, photographs, and graphic arts.
  •  Yahoo! National Museum of American Art
•  National Museum of Wildlife Art - features some of the most striking pieces and talents in one of the world's most striking places

•  Art Museum at Florida International University
•  Audubon House and Tropical Gardens - a restored 19th century home, exotic period gardens, authentic antiques and original engravings by John James Audubon
•  Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens - with art from the Antiquities to modern day as well as formal English and Italian gardens
•  Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art
•  Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami - exhibitions on antiquities to contemporary art
•  Orlando Museum of Art - the museum's mission reflects the continued growth of Central Florida, ardent community support for the arts, and the OMA's role as a leading cultural institution in the region
•  Rollins College - Cornell Fine Arts Museum
•  Salvador Dali Museum - in St. Petersburg
•  St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts - includes online previews of collections in European, American, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, photography, and Greek and Roman antiquities
•  University of South Florida - Contemporary Art Museum
•  Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida - houses two galleries and several studios and is open Tuesday through Saturday

•  Emory University - Michael C. Carlos Museum - in Atlanta; collection of objects spanning from the prehistoric cultures of the seventh millennium B.C. to the twentieth century
•  Yahoo! Georgia Museum of Art
•  Yahoo! High Museum of Art
•  Oglethorpe University Museum - represents a wide variety of exhibits, ranging from the Mystical Arts of Tibet to Renaissance Paintings
•  Solomon Projects - in Atlanta
•  Visual Art Atlanta - features exhibits, reviews, calendar of openings, and a directory of museums and galleries

•  Honolulu Academy of Arts - Hawaii's general fine arts museum, especially strong in Asian art. Exhibitions, education programs, collections, publications, studio art classes, and theater activities

•  Boise Art Museum - visual arts institution featuring a variety of artistic experiences for visitors of all ages including exhibitions, education programs and special events

•  Yahoo! Art Institute of Chicago
•  Arts Center - view the gallery or participate in art classes and workshops for people of all ages
•  David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art - at the University of Chicago
•  Elmhurst Art Museum
•  Yahoo! Illinois State Museum
•  Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art - Northwestern University
•  Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Museum
•  University of Chicago - Oriental Institute Museum - a showcase of the history, art, and archaelogy of the ancient Near East
•  Yahoo! University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Krannert Art Museum

•  Indianapolis Museum of Art - information on current exhibitions, permanent collections of African, American, Asian, European, and Contemporary art, extensive gardens, educational resources, and events
•  Snite Museum of Art - University of Notre Dame - in Notre Dame
•  Sofa Gallery
•  Swope Art Museum - in Terre Haute; 19th and 20th century American art

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•  Cedar Rapids Museum of Art - features landscape art, Ancient Roman artifacts and sculptures, and more
•  Fluxus Indian Museum - in Coon Rapids

•  Yahoo! University of Kansas - Spencer Museum of Art
•  Wichita Art Museum - in Wichita

•  Speed Art Museum - includes information on current exhibits and educational programs
  • Art Sparks
•  University of Louisville - J.B. Speed Art Museum

•  New Orleans Museum of Art - explore the holdings of museum, the on-line photography exhibit and special exhibitions

•  Colby College Museum of Art - in Waterville
•  Yahoo! Farnsworth Art Museum
•  Wyeth Center - a gallery and study center devoted to the Maine work of Andrew Wyeth and other members of the Wyeth family

•  American Visionary Art Museum - creating a place where self-taught, intuitive contributions of all kinds will be duly recognized, explored, and then championed in a clear strong voice
•  Baltimore Museum of Art - features an extraordinary permanent collection and ever-changing exhibitions, plus programs and performances for all ages
•  Graffiti Museum
•  Yahoo! Walters Art Gallery
•  Washington County Museum of Fine Arts - in Hagerstown; small fine arts museum with a collection of 19th and early 20th century American art

•  Amherst College - Mead Art Museum - in Amherst
•  Boston University Art Gallery - in Boston
•  Cahoon Museum of American Art - in Cotuit
•  Davis Museum and Cultural Center - in Wellesley; at Wellesley College
•  DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park - in Lincoln; dedicated to the exhibition, collection, and preservation of works by living New England artists
•  Harvard University Art Museums - The Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum
•  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum - contains collections information, calendar, exhibitions list, newsletter, and more
•  Quadrangle - museums and libraries in Springfield
•  Sargent at Harvard - searchable database of John Singer Sargent holdings at Harvard University.
•  Yahoo! Museum of Fine Arts - Boston
•  Smith College Museum of Art
•  Yahoo! Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
•  Tufts University Art Gallery - in Medford
•  Wesleyan University
•  Williams College Museum of Art - with a strong permanent collection and an exciting exhibitions calendar
•  Worcester Art Museum - in Worcester

•  Dennos Museum Center - in Traverse City; featuring exhibitions and concerts combined with gallery tours, artist lectures, hands-on workshops and school outreach activities
•  Detroit Institute of Arts - Includes images & information from our galleries and exhibitions, DIA event and educational program schedules, and information on membership, museum shops, and more
•  Yahoo! Grand Rapids Art Museum
•  Saginaw Art Museum - in Saginaw; hosts an active exhibition schedule from its permanent collection and temporary shows, a hands-on gallery for children, tours and art classes in a historic mansion and gardens
•  Yahoo! University of Michigan Museum of Art

•  Minneapolis Institute of Arts - comprehensive fine arts museum in the upper midwest
•  Minnesota Museum of American Art
•  Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum - University of Minnesota

•  Mississippi Museum of Art
•  Southern Breeze Gallery - in Jackson; displaying a collection of Mississippi artists and their work
•  Walter Anderson Museum of Art - features the art of Mississippi artist, writer and naturalist Walter Anderson, including his Little Room, Community Center and W.P.A. murals and exhibitions of other significant artists

•  Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art - houses one of the finest collections of American art in the midwest
•  St Louis Art Museum - in St. Louis; free
•  University of Missouri, Columbia - Museum of Art and Archaeology - offers a strong collection of classical and Near Eastern art and archaeology, European and American art, and South Asian art

•  Yahoo! University of Montana Museum of Fine Arts
•  Yellowstone Art Museum - in Billings

•  Yahoo! University of Nebraska, Kearney - Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA)

•  Art in Las Vegas dot com - information, listings, commentary and news about art happenings, places and the art scene in Las Vegas, Nevada
•  Las Vegas Art Museum - housed in the Sahara West Library and Fine Art Museum, the museum features the works of many fine artists
•  Nevada Museum of Art
•  Yahoo! Liberace Museum

•  Hood Museum of Art - Dartmouth College - in Hanover

•  Bergen Museum - in Paramus; youth gallery, arts education, exhibits of local artists and regional shows
•  Decoys and Wildlife Gallery - in Frenchtown
•  New Jersey Museums - directory
•  Princeton University Art Museum
•  Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center - in Newark; offers an array of programs including workshops for children and adults, performances and art shows
•  Watchung Arts Center - in Watchung

•  Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - private institution that operates in collaboration with the Museum of New Mexico system
•  Yahoo! Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) - in Santa Fe
•  New Mexico Cultural Treasures - listings of museums, parks and monuments
•  Wyeth Hurd Gallery - in Santa Fe; featuring the works of the Wyeth Hurd family

•  A.I.R. Gallery - cooperative, non-profit gallery for women artists
•  Yahoo! Brooklyn Museum
•  Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University - features a distinguished collection of contemporary art, a permanent folk arts program, and a wide range of temporary exhibitions
•  Cornell University - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - in Ithaca
•  Corning Museum of Glass - dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass
•  Dahesh Museum - dedicated to collecting and exhibiting 19th- and early 20th-century European academic art
•  Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library, NY - virtual tour of the museum, and telnet access to the FRESCO, the library catalog for art research
•  Jewish Museum - New York - captures 4000 years of history and culture
•  Yahoo! Kimbell Art Museum
•  Yahoo! Metropolitan Museum of Art
• open soon Morgan Library - formerly the private library of Pierpont Morgan
•  Museo Del Barrio, El - New York City's only Latino museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American art
•  Yahoo! Nassau County Museum of Art
•  NYC Museums - directory of museums ranging from Impressionism to Avant Garde to Asian crafts
•  Papermag's Guide to Art in New York - guide to viewing, purchasing and enjoying art in The City. Lists and reviews of galleries, shops and museums, and events
•  Plattsburgh Art Museum - featuring the Rockwell Kent Gallery and the permanent collection. The Burke Gallery presents changing exhibitions and online exhibitions
•  Yahoo! Polish Museum
•  Shaker Museum and Library - in Old Chatham; preserves, collects and interprets a collections of Shaker artifacts
•  Spanierman Gallery
•  SUNY - Albany - University Art Museum
•  SUNY Purchase College - Neuberger Museum of Art - information on exhibitions, events, collections and the Museum store
•  Syracuse University Art Collection - tour of murals and sculpture, current and traveling exhibitions
•  University of Rochester - Memorial Art Gallery - including images from the Gallery's permanent collection
•  Vassar College - Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
•  West End Gallery - in Corning
•  West End Gallery - in East Aurora

•  Ackland Art Museum - in Chappel Hill
•  Greenville Museum of Art - features late 19th and 20th century American visual art
•  Nasher Museum of Art - in Durham; at Duke University
•  St. John's Museum of Art

•  North Dakota Museum of Art

•  Akron Art Museum
•  Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin College - in Oberlin
•  Butler Institute of American Art
•  Guide to Public Art in Cincinnati - history, photos and a virtual tour of Cincinnati's collection of outdoor sculptures, fountains, objects and paintings
•  Cincinnati Art Museum - features a virtual tour of museum collections, general museum information, children's activities, art of the month, and much more
•  Cleveland Museum of Art - Works of Art online, exhibition highlights, events, visitor information, educational information, lots of Egyptian facts
•  Columbus Museum of Art - cultural art center
•  Springfield Museum of Art - in Springfield

•  Gardiner Art Gallery - in Stillwater

•  University of Oregon Museum of Art - discover thirty-five hundred years of history in the collections of the University of Oregon Museum of Art

•  Arthur Ross Gallery - the exhibition gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, featuring fine art shows from around the world
•  Carnegie Museum of Art - in Pittsburgh; collections and exhibitions emphasizing 19th- and 20th-century painting, sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, prints and video
•  Library Company of Philadelphia - independent research library and museum with collections documenting the history and background of American culture from the colonial period to the end of the 19th century
•  Museum of American Art - of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
•  Pennsylvania State University - Palmer Museum of Art
•  Rosenbach Museum & Library - in Philadelphia, PA; museum of art and antiques and library of rare books and transcripts housed in a historic 19th century mansion
•  Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art - in Altoona
•  State Museum of Pennsylvania - see dinosaurs, animals, art, the history of technology and Pennsylvania, and more

•  Columbia Museum of Art - in Columbia; featuring works from the museum's collection and a schedule of upcoming exhibits
•  Greenville County Museum of Art - in Greenville
•  Gibbes Museum of Art - in Charleston; over 7,000 objects ranging from paintings, prints and drawings to photography, sculpture and miniature rooms
•  The West End Gallery - in Greenville

•  Carroll Reece Museum - East Tennessee State University
•  Cheekwood Museum of Art - notable collections of 19th and 20th century American art, Worcester porcelain and antique silver, as well as outstanding traveling art exhibitions
•  Clough Hanson Gallery - Rhodes College - in Memphis
•  Frank H. McClung Museum - University of Tennessee - collections in anthropology, archaeology, decorative arts, medicine, local history, and natural history. Exhibits document Tennessee's art, culture, geology and fossils, history, and technologies
•  Knoxville Museum of Art
•  West Tennessee Regional Art Center - housing the Caldwell Collection, a gallery, educational resources, exhibitions and events, and more
•  William King Regional Arts Center - promotes the arts in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee

•  Amarillo Museum of Art - specializing in 19th and 20th century American art and in Asian art
•  Amon Carter Museum - featuring nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art and photography
•  Art Museum of Southeast Texas
•  Austin Museum of Art
•  Dallas Museum of Art
•  Grace Cultural Center - houses an art museum, a historical museum and a children's museum in Abilene, TX
•  Yahoo! Museum of Fine Arts - Houston
•  Rice University Art Gallery
•  San Antonio Art League Museum - SAALM maintains a museum to preserve and exhibit local and regional art
•  Sid Richardson Museum - in Ft. Worth; collection of Western Art
•  Springville Museum of Art - for the visual fine arts

•  Utah Museum of Fine Arts - contains a collection of world art and is free to the public

•  Cage's Sculpture Farm
•  Chrysler Museum - collection of 30,000 objects spans almost 4,000 years of art history
•  Hampton University Museum
•  Longwood Center for the Visual Arts - in Farmville
•  South Boston - Halifax County Museum of Fine Arts & History
•  Sweet Briar College Galleries - exhibitions in all three of the college's galleries and a tour of the college's impressive collection of art
•  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
•  William Benton Museum of Art - in Abingdon

•  Art in the Rain - Seattle - guide to visual arts including artists, events, galleries, links, museums, performing arts, public art, publications, and art for children
•  Bellevue Art Museum - in Bellevue
•  Center on Contemporary Art - CoCA presents the best of experimental and contemporary art
•  Commencement Art Gallery - public non-profit exhibition space for emerging artists living in Tacoma and the greater Puget Sound region. A project of the Tacoma Arts Commission
•  Frye Art Museum - in Seattle; featuring 19th and early 20th century European and American paintings, as well as works by Northwest regional artists and Alaskan painters
•  Henry Art Gallery - University of Washington - in Seattle
•  Yahoo! Seattle Art Museum
•  Tacoma Art Museum - committed to the art of the Northwest as collector and presenter
•  Waterworks Gallery - in Friday Harbor

•  Circus World Museum - in Baraboo; collects, preserves, and interprets archival material and artifacts relating to the history of the American circus
•  Haggerty Museum of Art - in Milwaukee; at Marquette University
•  Milwaukee Art Museum

•  Wyoming State Museum

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•  Art Museum Network - a directory of museums and galleries by region
•  Art Seen As Is - guide to current exhibitions in the galleries
•  ArtCenter.Net - features museums, galleries, artists, and exhibitions
•  Artcyclopedia - guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet, with directory of both artist and museums
•  ArtNet Scandinavia
•  FineartForum Online Art Resources: Art Museums
•  Gallery Guide On-Line - listing displays and exhibitions at more than 1,500 art galleries, museums, and other venues worldwide
•  Kultur Online - guide to online-museums and virtual galleries, with discussion forum, amusing WWW observations and more (in German)
•  Museums - WWW Virtual Library
•  SunSITE Multimedia Exhibits
•  University of California, Berkeley Museum Informatics Project
•  World Wide Art - directory of art galleries, museums & artists

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