The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

The Museo del Prado in Madrid.

The Louvre in Paris.

An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings. Sculpture, photographs, illustrations, and objects from the applied arts may also be shown.^[1] The term is used both for both public galleries, which are museums for the display of a permanent collection of art, and private galleries, which are commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However both types of gallery may host temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 99 KB)Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (May, 2004) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 99 KB)Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (May, 2004) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Image File history File links Gmii. ... Image File history File links Gmii. ... Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev (1847-1913) The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in the Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Image:Madrid-prado. ... Image:Madrid-prado. ... Bold text The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid; the capital of Spain. ... Motto: (Spanish for From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: , Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jimémez (PP) Area  - Land 607 km² (234. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x3072, 3545 KB) Summary Aile Richelieu du Louvre 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Louvre Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x3072, 3545 KB) Summary Aile Richelieu du Louvre 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Louvre Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. ... Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... Painter redirects here. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... Drawing is one way of making an image: it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ... € ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Commerce be merged into this article or section. ...

The rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egypt Gallery, for example. Ancient Egypt was a long-standing civilization in northeastern Africa. ...

The term contemporary art gallery refers to a usually a privately-owned for-profit commercial gallery. These galleries are often found clustered together in urban centers such as the Chelsea district of New York City, widely considered to be the center of the contemporary art world. Most large urban areas have several private art galleries, and most towns will be home to at least one. However, they may also be found in small communities, and remote areas where artists congregate, i.e. the Taos art colony and St Ives, Cornwall. Contemporary art galleries are usually open to the general public without charge, however some are semi-private. They usually profit by taking a cut of the art's sales; from 25 to 50% is usual. There are also many not-for-profit and art-collective galleries. Some galleries in cities like Tokyo charge the artists a flat rate per day, though this is considered distasteful in some international art markets. Galleries often hang solo shows. Curators often create group shows that say something about a certain theme, trend in art, or group of associated artists. Galleries often choose to represent artists exclusively, giving them the opportunity to show regularly. One idiosyncrasy of contemporary art galleries is their aversion to signing business contracts, although this seems to be changing. Contemporary art is often shown and sold in galleries. ... Elegant building along 23rd street. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... The Taos Art Colony is an art colony which began in 1898 with the visit of Bert G. Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein to Taos, New Mexico. ... St Ives harbour and the local rescue lifeboat. ... A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ...

Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as music concerts or poetry readings. Conversely, some works of visual art are not shown in a gallery. In particular, works on paper, such as drawings and old master prints are considered by curators as unable to be permanently displayed for conservation reasons. Instead any collection is held in a print room in the museum. Murals generally remain where they have been painted, although many have been removed to galleries. Various forms of 20th century art, such as land art and performance art, also usually exist outside a gallery. Photographic records of these kinds of art are often shown in galleries, however. Most large museum art galleries own more works than they have room to display. The rest are held in reserve collections, on or off-site. // Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ... This article is about the art form. ... Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. ... The term Old Master Print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Salle des illustres, ceiling painting, by Jean André Rixens. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005. ... This article is about Performance art. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Similar to an art gallery is the sculpture garden (or sculpture park), which presents sculpture in an outdoor space. Sculpture installation has grown in popularity, whereby temporary sculptures are installed in open spaces during events like festivals. The Esplanade Ernest-Cormier, a sculpture garden in Montreal, with Melvin Charneys work Colonnes allégoriques. ...

Architecture

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.

São Paulo Museum of Art in São Paulo, Brazil

The architectural form of the art gallery was established by Sir John Soane with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1817.^[2] This established the gallery as a series of interconnected rooms with largely uninterrupted wall spaces for hanging pictures and indirect lighting from skylights or roof lanterns. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x608, 157 KB)Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x608, 157 KB)Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. ... The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao, with the Maman, a huge spider by Louise Bourgeois The Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is made of glass, titanium, and limestone. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2288 × 1712 pixel, file size: 806 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2288 × 1712 pixel, file size: 806 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Museu de Arte de São Paulo The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Portuguese for São Paulo Museum of Art, or MASP, was inaugurated in 1962, by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi. ... Nickname: Motto: Non ducor, duco(Latin) I am not led, I lead Location in the São Paulo state. ... Section of the dome of Florence Cathedral. ... Sir John Soane (10 September 1753 - 20 January 1837) was a British architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical tradition. ... Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... It has been suggested that window frames be merged into this article or section. ...

The late 19th century saw a boom in the building of public art galleries in Europe an America, being an essential cultural feature of larger cities. More art galleries rose up alongside museums and public libraries as part of the municipal drive for literacy and public education. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the late 20th century the dry old fashioned view of art galleries has increasingly been replaced with architecturally bold modern art galleries, often seen as international destination for tourists in their own right. The first example of the architectural landmark art gallery would be the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright. More recent outstanding examples include Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Mario Botta redesign of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Some critics argue that these galleries are self defeating, in that their dramatic interior spaces distract the eye from the paintings they are supposed to exhibit. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The front of the Guggenheim Museum from 5th Avenue This article refers to the Guggenheim Museum in the upper east side of Manhattan (New York). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the worlds most prominent and influential architects. ... Frank Owen Gehry (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ... The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao, with the Maman, a huge spider by Louise Bourgeois The Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is made of glass, titanium, and limestone. ... Mario Botta (born April 1, 1943) is a famous modern architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. ... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). ...

Notable art museums

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA.

[Museum Rudana] in Ubud, Bali.

[Genta Fine Art Gallery] in Ubud, Bali.

Paintings inside the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery at night.

The front of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.

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Americas (except USA)

• Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
• Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada
• Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
• São Paulo: São Paulo Museum of Art
• Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario
• Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery

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Africa

• Cairo: Egyptian Museum, Museum of Islamic Art
• Johannesburg: MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg Art Gallery
• Harare: National Gallery of Zimbabwe

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Asia

• Baghdad: National Museum of Iraq
• Bali: Museum Rudana, Genta Fine Art Gallery
• Beijing: Palace Museum
• Jakarta: Indonesian National Gallery
• New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum
• Shanghai: Shanghai Museum
• Taganrog: Taganrog Museum of Art
• Taipei: National Palace Museum
• Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum

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Europe

• Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, van Gogh Museum
• Athens: National Archaeological Museum of Athens, New Acropolis Museum
• Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Museu Picasso
• Barnard Castle: Bowes Museum
• Berlin: Museum Island, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie
• Bilbao: Guggenheim Museum
• Bristol (UK): Royal West of England Academy, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
• Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
• Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Applied Arts
• Cambridge (UK): Fitzwilliam Museum
• Cardiff: National Museum
• Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Statens Museum for Kunst
• Dresden: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
• Dublin: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland,
• Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Dean Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
• Florence: Galleria degli Uffizi, Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Palazzo Pitti
• Glasgow: Gallery of Modern Art, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Burrell Collection
• Istanbul: Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Pera Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Great Palace Mosaic Museum
• Leeds: The Royal Armouries Museum, Temple Newsam
• Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
• Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Sudley House
• London: National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Courtauld Gallery, Queen's Gallery, Gilbert Collection, Sir John Soane's Museum, Kenwood House, Wallace Collection, Apsley House, Foundling Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery
• Madrid: Museo del Prado, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
• Manchester: Manchester Art Gallery
• Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum, Kremlin Armoury
• Munich: Alte Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek, Pinakothek der Moderne
• Naples: Museo di Capodimonte, Naples National Archaeological Museum
• Oslo: National Gallery of Norway
• Oxford: Ashmolean Museum
• Paris: Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin, Centre Pompidou, Musée Picasso, Guimet Museum, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Musée de Cluny, Musée de l'Orangerie
• Prague: National Gallery, Náprstek Museum
• Rome: Vatican Museum, Galleria Borghese, National Museum of Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Capitoline Museums, National Etruscan Museum
• St Ives: Tate St Ives
• St. Petersburg: Hermitage, Russian Museum
• Stockholm: Nationalmuseum
• Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie
• Venice: Accademia, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' d'Oro, Ca' Pesaro
• Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Leopold Museum, Albertina, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, MUMOK
• Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art[1]
• Zürich: Foundation E.G. Bührle

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Scottish National Portrait Gallery The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery on Queen Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... The narrow courtyard between the Uffizis two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street. ... Michelangelos David in the Tribuna that was built especially to house it. ... Early, tinted 20th-century photograph of the Palazzo Pitti, then still known as La Residenza Reale following the residency of King Emmanuel II between 1865–71, when Florence was the capital of Italy. ... “Glaswegian” redirects here. ... The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the City of Glasgows main gallery of contemporary art. ... Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is Glasgows premier museum and art gallery and has one of Europes great civic art collections. ... The buildings that house the Burrell Collection The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow, in Scotland. ... 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The Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul The Great Palace Mosaic Museum (Turkish: Büyük Saray Mozaikleri Müzesi), is located close to Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, at Arasta Bazaar. ... , Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. ... The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, northern England, was opened in 1996 to display items belonging to the Royal Armouries collection. ... Temple Newsam is an estate in the county in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ... Location    - Country Portugal    - Region Lisboa  - Subregion Grande Lisboa  - District or A.R. Lisbon Mayor Carmona Rodrigues  - Party PSD Area 84. ... The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (MNAA, National Museum of Ancient Art) of Lisbon is the most important art museum in Portugal and one of the most important European museums. ... Museu Calouste Gulbenkian is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal, containing an impressive collection of ancient (and some modern) art. ... Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government  - Type Metropolitan borough, City  - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area  - Borough & City 43. ... This page is about the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. ... The Tate Liverpool is located in Albert Dock, Liverpool. ... Sudley House, Aigburth, Liverpool, England is an art gallery which contains the collection of George Holt in its original setting. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Londons National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in central London which was opened in 1856. ... Tate Britain is a part of the Tate Gallery in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. ... Tate Modern from the Millennium Bridge Tate Modern from St Pauls Cathedral. ... The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the worlds largest and finest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4. ... The British Museum in London, England is one of the worlds greatest museums of human history and culture. ... Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. ... The Saatchi Gallerys new premises in Chelsea, opening early 2007. ... The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. ... The Queens Gallery is a public art gallery located at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. ... The Gilbert Collection was formed by the English businessman Sir Arthur Gilbert, who made most of his fortune in the property business in California. ... The Soane Museum is a museum of architecture, and was formerly the house and studio of Sir John Soane. ... Kenwood House Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a former stately home in Hampstead Heath in London. ... The Wallace Collection is a national art museum located in London. ... Apsley House in 1829 by TH Shepherd. ... The Foundling Museums Court Room The Foundling Museum was set up in 1998 and houses the nationally important art collection of the Foundling Hospital. ... The Guildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of the City of London. ... Motto: (Spanish for From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: , Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jimémez (PP) Area  - Land 607 km² (234. ... Bold text The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid; the capital of Spain. ... The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is the official name Spains national museum of 20th century art (informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía or Queen Sofia Museum). ... The Museo Thyssen Bornemisza is an art gallery in Madrid. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... Occupying three buildings, including what was originally the Royal Manchester Institution designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1824, the Manchester Art Gallery houses the civic art collection of Manchester, England. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov (1883) The State Tretyakov Gallery is the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. ... Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev (1847-1913) The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in the Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. ... The Armory (Оружейная палата in Russian), one of the oldest museums of Moscow, located in the Kremlin. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ... The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. ... The Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. ... The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in the city centre of Munich, Germany. ... For other uses see, Naples (disambiguation) and Napoli (disambiguation) Location of the city of Naples (red dot) within Italy. ... The Museum of Caopodimonte has some of the famous paintings from many artists like Michelangelo Buonarroti and many other people. ... The National Archaeological Museum of Naples. ... County District Østlandet Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Nasjonalgalleriet, or The National Gallery in Oslo is the national art gallery of Norway. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Ashmolean Museum main entrance. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night Over the Rhone, painted in September 1888 at Arles Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, 1876 Édouard Manet: The Luncheon on the Grass, 1862-3 Gustave Courbet: The Artists Studio (detail), 1855 Paul Cézanne: Apples and Oranges, circa 1899... The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. ... The Pompidou Centres famous external skeleton of service pipes. ... Hôtel Salé This article refers to the museum in Paris. ... Guimet in his museum. ... Musée Marmottan-Monet is located at 2, rue Louis Boilly in the 16th arrondissement of Paris (phone: +33-1-44-96-50-33, fax: +33-1-40-50-65-84). ... The Musée de Cluny as viewed from the nearby park The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry Thermes de Cluny: caldarium The Musée de Cluny, officially known as Musée National du Moyen Âge, is a museum in Paris, France. ... Claude Monet: Nymphéas, 1920-26 The Musée de lOrangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. ... Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: , Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ... National Gallery in Prague is the Czech National Gallery in Prague. ... Gandhara stone palette with king and attendants in Indo-Parthian dress. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... Categories: Stub | Vatican City ... The Villa Borghese Pinciana (begun 1605) houses the Galleria Borghese. ... The National Museum of Rome (Museo Nazionale Romano in Italian) is a set of museums in Rome, Italy, split between various branches across the city. ... In Palazzo Barberini, which still dominates Piazza Barberini, Rione Trevi, Rome, three great architects worked to create a harmonious whole: Carlo Maderno, who began it in 1627, his nephew and assistant Francesco Borromini, working on his first important commission, and a young sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. ... Michelangelos design for Capitoline Hill, now home to the Capitoline Museums. ... This page is on the museum itself, for the architectural history of the house see Villa Giulia. ... St Ives harbour and the local rescue lifeboat. ... Porthmeor Beach, St Ives with the entrance to the Tate gallery on the right. ... Saint Petersburg  listen (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991... The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art (not all on display at once), [1] and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. ... Russian Museum - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... For other uses, see Stockholm (disambiguation). ... Swedish Nationalmuseum, seen across the water from the Royal Castle in Stockholm. ... , City Center seen from Weinsteige Road Castle Solitude The 1956 TV Tower The Weissenhof Estate in 1927 Stuttgart (IPA: []) is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. ... To be translated from here The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (State Gallery) opened in 1843. ... For other uses, see Venice (disambiguation). ... The Accademia di Belle Arti is Venice’s school of art and is uniformly known throughout Venice as the Accademia. ... The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. ... Ca Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. ... Ca dOro façade overlooking the Grand Canal Ca dOro (correctly the Palazzo Santa Sofia) is one of the most beautiful palazzos on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy and surely the most famous. ... Ca Pesaro in Venice. ... “Wien” redirects here. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna. ... The Leopold Museum, housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria, is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl. ... Albertina in Vienna The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. ... The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria. ... MUMOK is the abbreviation of Museum MOderner Kunst (English: Museum of Modern Art) Foundation Ludwig Vienna. ... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country  Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ... For other uses of Zurich, see Zurich (disambiguation). ... The Foundation E.G. Bührle was established by the Oerlikon-Bührle company in Zürich, Switzerland to bring to public viewing Emil Georg Bührles important collection of European sculptures and paintings. ...

Oceania

• Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria
• Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) located in The Domain in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the second largest in Australia after the National Gallery of Victoria. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Wellington Region. ... Te Papa (Our Place), The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum of New Zealand. ...

United States

• Atlanta: High Museum of Art
• Baltimore Museum of Art
• Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA): Harvard Art Museums
• Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oriental Institute
• Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, University of Michigan-Museum of Art
• Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum
• Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts
• Jacksonville, Florida: Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
• Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
• Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Arts Center
• Los Angeles: Getty Center, Getty Villa, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center
• New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery
• New Orleans: Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• New York: The Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Frick Museum, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Cloisters
• North Adams, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
• Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum
• Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin Museum
• Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum
• Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum
• San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor
• Seattle: Seattle Art Museum
• Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Phillips Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Interior of Bristol Art Gallery, Bristol, England. The large picture ‘Noah’s Ark’was painted in 1700 by the Dutch artist Jan Griffier.

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Artis based on some traditional Persian elements such as Badgirs, and yet has a spiraling design reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Nickname: Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties in the state of Georgia Coordinates: , Country State Counties Fulton, DeKalb Government  - Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area  - City  132. ... High Museum, Atlanta. ... The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ... The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a museum in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection of over 2,500 works of European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. ... Nickname: Location of Buffalo in New York State County Government  - Mayor Byron Brown (D) Area  - City 52. ... view from Elmwood Avenue The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art located in Buffalo, New York. ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1630 Incorporated 1636 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Kenneth Reeves (D) Area  - City  7. ... The Harvard University Art Museums are the Fogg Art Museum, which specializes in Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, which specializes in art of Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which specializes in ancient, Islamic and Asian art. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... The Art Institute of Chicago is a fine art museum located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum in downtown Chicago. ... The Art-Deco doors of the Oriental Institute, sculpture by Ulric Ellerhusen Head of a bull that once guarded the entrance to the Hundred-Column Hall in Persepolis The Oriental Institute (OI), established in 1919, is the University of Chicagos archeology museum and research center for ancient Near Eastern... Nickname: Motto: Progress & Prosperity Location in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Coordinates: , Country State County Cuyahoga Founded 1796 Incorporated 1814 (village)   1836 (city) Government  - Mayor Frank G. Jackson (D) Area [1]  - City  82. ... The Cleveland Museum of Art, South View from Wade Lagoon Located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, the Cleveland Museum of Art has a permanent collectionof more than 40,000 objects in 70 galleries. ... Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: , Country State County Wayne County Founded 1701 Incorporation 1806 Government  - Type Strong Mayor-Council  - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Area  - City  143. ... The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), originally named the Detroit Museum of Art, has one of the largest, most significant art collections in the United States. ... The art museum and library of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, designed by world-renowned architect Eliel Saarinen. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... Nickname: Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Coordinates: , Country State NECTA Hartford Region Capitol Region Named 1637 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1896 Government  - Type Mayor-council  - Mayor Eddie Perez Area  - City  18. ... The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States and largest in the state of Connecticut. ... Houston redirects here. ... The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in Houston, is the largest art museum in Texas, USA, and the largest art museum in the USA east of Los Angeles, south of Chicago, and west of Washington. ... Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ... The Honolulu Academy of Arts is a fine art museum located near downtown Honolulu, Hawaii. ... “Jacksonville” redirects here. ... MOCA Jacksonville The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is one of the Southeast’s largest contemporary art institutions. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as seen from Emanuel Cleaver Boulevard to the south The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is the preeminent art museum in both Kansas City, Missouri, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area as a whole. ... The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1994 in Kansas City, Missouri. ... Location in Pulaski County, Arkansas Coordinates: , Country State County Pulaski Founded 1821 Incorporated 1831 Government  - Mayor Mark Stodola Area  - City  116. ... The Arkansas Arts Center is located in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... The Getty Center, seen from the Central Garden The Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, is the current home of the J. Paul Getty Museum as well as a research institute, conservation institute, grant program, and leadership institute. ... The Getty Villa Main Courtyard of the Villa The new entrance to the Getty Villa sets the tone of entering an archaeological dig. ... The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is an art museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... One of the most celebrated art museums in the country, the Walker Art Center is known for commissioning and presenting innovative contemporary art; fostering the cross-pollination of the visual, performing, and media arts; and engaging diverse audiences in the excitement of the creative process. ... “New Haven” redirects here. ... The Yale Center for British Art is an art museum associated with Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States. ... The Yale University Art Gallery is located at 1111 Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut. ... NOLA redirects here. ... The mission of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, is to broaden the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South through its permanent collections, changing exhibitions, educational programs, publications, research center, and its Goldring-Woldenberg Institute for the Advancement... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The front of the Guggenheim Museum from 5th Avenue This article refers to the Guggenheim Museum in the upper east side of Manhattan (New York). ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ... Night view of Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ... The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, is the second largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. ... Holbeins portrait of Thomas More is one of the hightlights of the Frick Collection. ... The Morgan Library & Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library) is a museum and research library in New York City. ... Garden at The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, New York City The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages. ... North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. ... The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, commonly referred to as MASS MoCA, is a museum located in North Adams, Massachusetts. ... Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, to the south and west of Cleveland. ... The Allen Memorial Art Museum (abbreviated AMAM) is located in Oberlin, Ohio and is affiliated with Oberlin College. ... Nickname: Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love endure Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: , Country Commonwealth County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government  - Mayor John F. Street (D) Area  - City 369. ... The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ... Entrance to Rodin Museum The Rodin Museum is a museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which contains the largest collection of sculptor Auguste Rodins works outside Paris. ... Nickname: Motto: Sic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government  - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area  - City 62. ... The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or ‘’’VMFA’’’ is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government  - Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area  - City  66. ... The façade of the St. ... Nickname: Location in Essex County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Essex County Settled 1626 Incorporated 1626 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Kimberley Driscoll Area  - City  18. ... The Peabody Essex Museum was founded in 1801 as the East India Marine Society by a group of Salem, Mass. ... “San Francisco” redirects here. ... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). ... Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... Seattle Art Museum, viewed from First Avenue The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in downtown Seattle, Washington USA. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... The West building of the National Gallery of Art with the East building visible behind and to to the left The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1937 by the Congress, with funds for... The exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum located in Washington, DC on the National Mall and designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft. ... National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. ... The Phillips Collection is an art museum located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. founded by Duncan Phillips in 1918 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery. ... Dumbarton Oaks is a nineteenth-century mansion located in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. It houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, a leading center for scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies and the history of landscape architecture. ... The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of American art. ... Corcoran Gallery of Art, main entrance on 17th Street The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museums main focus is American art. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 579 pixel Image in higher resolution (2241 × 1621 pixel, file size: 1,007 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The interior of the Art Gallery of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England . ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 579 pixel Image in higher resolution (2241 × 1621 pixel, file size: 1,007 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The interior of the Art Gallery of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England . ... The museum building. ... This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... 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List of notable contemporary galleries

• Bombay: The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art
• London: Saatchi Gallery Victoria Miro Gallery Alwin Gallery
• Madrid: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
• Mexico City: Galeria OMR
• New York: Bodley Gallery Gagosian Gallery Park Place Gallery Zach Feuer Gallery
• Paris: Daniel Templon Emmanuel Perrotin Yvon Lambert
• São Paulo: Museum of Contemporary Art
• Tampa: Contemporary Art Museum
• Tehran: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
• Valencia : Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM)

This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art - ICIA based in Bombay is the largest gallery for contemporary art in India, opened by Vickram Sethi of The Arts Trust. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Saatchi Gallerys new premises in Chelsea, opening early 2007. ... The Victoria Miro Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in London, run by Victoria Miro. ... Motto: (Spanish for From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: , Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jimémez (PP) Area  - Land 607 km² (234. ... The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is an art gallery in Madrid. ... Nickname: Motto: Ciudad en movimiento Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... “NY” redirects here. ... The Bodley Gallery was a prominent art gallery in New York City from the 1940s through the 1980s. ... The Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery, owned by Larry Gagosian, with branches in the United Kingdom and the US. There is an extensive list of exhibited artists, including Damien Hirst, Frank Stella, Rachel Whiteread, Jake and Dinos Chapman, John Currin, Jasper Johns, Gilbert and George and Nan Goldin. ... Park Place Gallery was a contemporary art gallery located in SoHo in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, during the mid to late 1960s. ... Zach Feuer Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in New York Citys Chelsea district. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Yvon Lambert (born May 20, 1950 in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward. ... Nickname: Motto: Non ducor, duco(Latin) I am not led, I lead Location in the São Paulo state. ... There are several museums entitled the Museum of Contemporary Art. They include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran Museum... Tampas skyline For alternate meanings, see Tampa (disambiguation) Tampa is a city located in Hillsborough County on the west coast of Florida. ... The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Museum is based on some traditional Persian elements such as Badgirs, and yet has a spiraling design reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wrights Guggenheim. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name València (Valencian) Spanish name Valencia Founded 137 BC Postal code 46000-46080 Website http://www. ...

Online museums

Museums with major web presences

Most art Museums have only limited online collections, but a few Museums, as well as some libraries and government agencies, have developed substantial online catalogues. Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections of prints, photographs, and other works on paper include:

• Library of Congress, prints (C19 on) and photographs collection (several million entries).[2]
• Peabody Essex Museum, with over 1 million entries (many being prints and works on paper).[3]

Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections with more focus on paintings and sculpture include: The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ... The Peabody Essex Museum was founded in 1801 as the East India Marine Society by a group of Salem, Mass. ...

• Boston Museum of Fine Arts, with over 330,000 works, most with images. Good for prints.[4]
• The Mona Lisa Database of French Museums - Joconde (from the French Ministry of Culture) in French [5]
• Louvre, with over 80,000 works in various databases, with a large number of images, as well as another 140,000 drawings.[6]
• National Gallery of Art, with over 108,000 works catalogued, though with only 6,000 images.[7]
• Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, with over 85,000 works. Good for prints[8]
• Harvard Art Museums, with over 81,000 works, about half of which have very low resolution images. [9]
• Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield, with over 60,000 works, most with images. [10]
• SaoPauloMuseus.com, Museums of Sao Paulo City - Brazil. [11]

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The West building of the National Gallery of Art with the East building visible behind and to to the left The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1937 by the Congress, with funds for... The Harvard University Art Museums are the Fogg Art Museum, which specializes in Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, which specializes in art of Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which specializes in ancient, Islamic and Asian art. ... The Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield is a consortium of Museums in Western Massachusetts and includes art museums which are part of the Five Colleges as well as Historic Deerfield. ...

Online art collections

There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries that have been developed independently of the support of any individual Museum. Many of these are attempts to develop galleries of artwork that are encyclopedic or historical in focus, while others are commercial efforts to sell the work of contemporary artists.

A limited number of such sites have independent importance in the artworld. The large auction houses, such as Sotheby's and Christie's maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning. The site artnet.com, founded in the late 1990s, hosts an exclusive, fully illustrated database of Fine Art and Design auction lots sold worldwide since 1985. Bridgeman Art Library serves as a central source of reproductions of artwork, with access limited to museums, art dealers and other professionals or professional organizations. 1st-Art-Gallery.com, with a database of over 3 million high resolution images, serves as a source of information for painters who seek to improve their skills - the gallery allows artists to obtain half ready reproductions of thousands of paintings so they can practice their skills by completing the work. Sothebys (NYSE: BID) is the worlds second oldest international auction house in continuous operation. ... The Christies auction house in South Kensington, London Christies American branch in Rockefeller Center, New York Christies is a fine art auction house, the largest and by some accounts the oldest in the world. ... The Bridgeman Art Library, based in London, England, is one of the largest archives for reproductions of works of art in the world. ...

Folksonomy

There are also online galleries that have been developed by a collaboration of museums and galleries that are more interested with the categorization of art. They are interested in the potential use of folksonomy within museums and the requirements for post-processing of terms that have been gathered, both to test their utility and to deploy them in useful ways. A folksonomy is a user-generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve web content such as Web pages, photographs and Web links, using open-ended labels called tags. ...

The steve.museum is one example of a site that is experimenting with this collaborative philosophy. The participating institutions include the Guggenheim Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Guggenheim Museum refers to any of several museums worldwide created and run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. ... The Cleveland Museum of Art, South View from Wade Lagoon Located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, the Cleveland Museum of Art has a permanent collectionof more than 40,000 objects in 70 galleries. ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). ...

Vanity galleries

Main article: Vanity gallery

A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges fees from artists in order to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors. The shows are not legitimately curated and will include as many artists as possible. Most art professionals are able to identify them on an artist's resume. See: A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees in order to exhibit their work. ... A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees in order to exhibit their work. ... A vanity press or vanity publisher is a book printer which, while claiming to be a publisher, charges writers a fee in return for publishing their books or otherwise makes most of its money from the author rather than from the public. ...

• NYFA.org: 'Investing in Your Career, A Worth While Risk?'

See also

• List of notable museums and galleries
• Art exhibition
• Artist-run space
• Artist-run centre
• Artist Run Initiatives
• Arts centre
• Contemporary art gallery
• National gallery
• Vanity gallery
• Fine Art Prices

This is a list of 50 notable museums and galleries worldwide, organised by country and then by city, as included in the Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac 2005, pp. ... Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) are any projects run by visual artists to present their and others projects. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Contemporary art is often shown and sold in galleries. ... National Gallery is a common name for a countrys major public art gallery. ... A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees in order to exhibit their work. ...

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