Art Galleries

Barbican Gallery, London
Europe's largest multi-arts venue presents a constant programme of art, music, film and theatre.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Built up over the last two centuries, the collections at Birmingham represent every era of art.

Global Gallery
An online arts source that features artists biographies and examples of their work.

Guggenheim Collection
The online collection encompasses both the classic and the new - from work by Pissarro to recent sculptures by Gober - striking a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole.

Haines Gallery
Known for its diverse exhibition programme and thought-provoking projects that present new work and emerging talent alongside internationally established artists.

The Huntarian Gallery
Dedicated to the work of William Hunter.

The Louvre
Tour the Louvre Palace and Museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
A treasure trove of information from New York's huge museum.

Museum of Modern Art, New York
Includes online projects from artists in their current exhibition, a rich database indexing the reams of material in the museum's library and Art Safari, a way of exploring animals in art. Academic and fun.

National Gallery
Houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world.

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.

National Portrait Gallery
Founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British people, the gallery now has the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world.

Royal Academy of Arts
The oldest fine arts institution in Britain, the Academy has been at the heart of the country's cultural life since it was founded in 1768.

Tate Gallery
Holds the national collections of British Art and of international modern art. The entire Tate Collection can be found on this site, each work with its own information page.

Victoria and Albert Museum
Founded in 1852, the V&A is the world's greatest museum of art and design renowned for the immense diversity of its collections.

Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Includes biographies and over 6,500 reproductions.