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Recommended Websites for Museums and Virtual Field Trips

By M.D. Roblyer|A. H. Doering
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Internet sites can be rich sources of artworks that students can use as illustrations of artists' work and as models for their own work. The list below provides some sites that teachers can bookmark for regular use in classes.

  • Virtual Tour of the Louvre Museum, Paris (http://www.louvrefr/anglais/visite/vis_f.htm)
  • Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)
  • Museum of Modern Art (http://www.moma.org)
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org/)
  • Smithsonian Museums (http://www.st.edu/)
  • National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art (http://www.whitney.org/)
  • Andy Warhol Museum (http://www.warhol.org/warhol/)
  • Art Museum Image Consortium (http://www.amico.org/)
  • Tour of Florence Cathedral (http://www.nku.edu/~houghton/duomoweb)
  • Photography Exhibition of the work of Douglas Prince (http://www.nku.edu/~photo/prince/index.html)
  • Great Artists: DaVinci to Picasso (http://www.theartgallery.com.au/ArtEducation/greatartists/)
  • Fine Art History Quick Reference (http://www.theartgallery.com.au/ArtEducation/greatartists/)
  • Masters of Photography (http://www.masters-of-photography.com/)
  • Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson from NPR (http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1318621.html)
  • International Sculpture Center (http://www.sculpture.org/)
  • Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (http://wwwfranklloydwright.org/)
  • Architect Zaha Hadid (http://www.zaha-hadid.com/)
  • Great Buildings Online (http://www.GreatBuildings.com/gbc.html)
  • Non-Western art listings at Penn State Library (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artshumanities/art/nonwestern.html)
  • Non-Western art links (http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/links/non_Western.html)
  • Non-Western art links on The Educator, online magazine for the professional in education (http://www.the-educator.co.uk/mainsite/links/art/nonwes.htm)
  • Science, Art and Technology course from Art Institute of Chicago for science teachers (http://www.artic.edu/aic/students/sciarttech/)

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