Art History 150: Museums/Web Sites

The oldest and largest museum in Japan

This collection contains nearly 300,000 oringal slides and photographs dating from 2500 B.C.E to present.

Here is housed one of the most significant collections of Islamic art in the world. The collection comprises more than 1,700 works, of which some 150 examples are on view; these include glazed ceramics, inlaid metalwork, enameled glass, carved wood and stone, and manuscript illustrations illumination, and calligraphy.

The Met has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, , with extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine, and Islamic art.

Its diverse holdings also include significant Old Master works, American art, European and American decorative arts, Asian art and modern and contemporary art.

Explore museums from around the world.

The Suzhou Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art. Chinese-American Architect I.M. Ping design the museum building and it opened in 2006.

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of art from around the world.

An enormous website operating since 1995 and still updated.

A one-stop center of Smithsonian images, videos, sound files and archives.

A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

Archnet is a globally-accessible, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.