Quick links to museum and art collections across the world.

Below are direct links to museum and library image & multimedia database systems. While most links represent the museum's or library's entire collection; others are only selected works. 

Links are arranged in alphabetical order by  institutional name.

For your convenience VRC has indicated the number of works represented in each database.

MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES  (A-L)

• Art Images for College Education (created by Art historian, Allan T. Kohl -ancient, medieval, and renaissance European art)
• Art Institute of Chicago (more than 54,000 works)
• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco  (10,000 works)
• Boston College (Art & Architecture links)
• British Museum  (775,000 images)
• Brooklyn Museum (100,000 works)
• California State University - WorldImages Kiosk  (100,000 images)
• Carnegie Museum (115,000 works)
• Cartoon Museum (selected works)
• Chrysler Museum of Fine Arts (30,000 works)
• Clark Art Institute (database)
• Clevland Museum of Art (database)
• Cooper Hewitt: National Design Museum (selected works)
• Corcoran, Washington, D.C. (16,000 works)
• Corning Museum of Glass (database)
• Dallas Museum of Art (7,4000 works)
• DeCordova Museum (3,500 works)
• Denver Art Museum- (68,000 works)
• Detroit Institute for Art (more than 60,000 works)
• Digital Public Library of America ( 2,779,536 works)
• Five Colleges, Amherst Massachusetts (database)
• Frick Musuem (database)
• Guggenheim Museum, USA (4,500 works)
• Hammer Museum (database)
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (database)
• Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (database)
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (database)
• J Paul Getty Museum (database)
• Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) (database)
• Kyoto National Museum (10,000 works)
• Kimbell Art Museum (350 works)
• Library of Congress (American illustrations, photographs, graphics)
• Los Angeles Museum County Museum of Art  (50,000 works)
• Louvre (database)

MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES (M-P)

• Medieval Art and Architecture France Chartres (database)
• Mead Art Museum (database)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (more than 100,000 works)
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts (selected works)
• Musee d'Orsay (database)
• Museum of Fine Art (Boston) (346,000 works)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (database)
• Musuem of Modern Art (MOMA), New York (database)
• Guimet (Middle East & Asia antiquities)
• Museum of Picasso, France (selected works)
• Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF) (database)
• National Gallery of Art, United States (6,000 works)
• National Gallery London (database)
• National Gallery of Scotland (selected works)
• National Museums Tokyo (database)
• National Museum of Women in the Arts (database)
• The Archives of Ontario Visual Database (database)
• National Portrait Gallery Britain (16,000 works)
• New York Public Library (30,000 works)
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection (database)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art (68,000 works)
• Prado Museum (1,000 works)

MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES(R-Z)

• Rice Gallery - highlights - contemporary art
• Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art (database)
• Saatchi Gallery (selected works)
• Smithsonian Museums - (8 million works)
• Smithsonian American Art  (database)
• SIRIS Smithsonian American Archives (database)
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (database)
• Tate (database)
• Tokyo National Museum (database)
• University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) - (database)
• University of Maryland Digital Collections (database)
• University of Virginia Digital Collections (database)
• University of Washington - Digital Collections (database)
• Victoria and Albert Museum (database)
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (selected works)
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (database)
• Walker Art Center (database)
• Worcester Art Museum (selected works)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (database)
• Yale Center for British Art (database)