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Rights of use vary, some free for non commercial personal or educational use. See individual pages.


Web gallery of Art   http://www.wga.hu/   This site is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1800), currently containing over 12,400 reproductions.  A contact for the site wrote to me that the site "is intended to be a resource of art history primarily - but not exclusively - for students and teachers. Consequently, we encourage them to use the Gallery as an on-line art resource without any restrictions. Furthermore, we support the projects aiming to set up special purpose educational, religious and other public service oriented non-profit websites by using some images of the Gallery. If your project falls into these categories we give you the required permission."


http://vlmp.museophile.com/   virtual library museum pages


http://www.metmuseum.org/   The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.


http://www.mos.org/   Museum of Science in Boston.


http://www.exploratorium.edu/    Exploratorium | The museum of science, art and human perception  (I had the computer freeze when going to this site once.)


Art institute of Chicago    http://www.artic.edu/aic/    has a collections page   http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/   with lots of pictures. Images can be used for private, non commercial and educational use, under fair use, as defined by the US copyright laws.


http://www.smithsonian.org/   Smithsonian


The Louvre   http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp   


http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/index.html   Carnegie Museum of Natural History   exhibits are here   http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/halls.html   some on line exhibits.


http://www.moma.org/collection/   Museum of Modern Art collection.


http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/index.html   Virtual museum Canada has bunch of pictures. Free to use for educational and personal use


http://www.nga.gov/   National Gallery of Art. Especially see the kids art page   http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm   with many activities.


http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/   webmuseum


http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/   Science museum. Has some interesting on line exhibits such as   Making the modern world   http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/   which has some picture and story shows,  and Ingenious   http://www.ingenious.org.uk/   which shows science and culture.



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last updated 12/31/07