Allen Memorial Art Museum
(Oberlin, OH)
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) was the first college art museum
west of the Alleghenies. Now ranked among the finest college or university collections in the
nation, the AMAM is one of the greatest cultural assets of Oberlin College. The
comprehensive collection, which contains over 11,000 works that span the entire history of art.
http://www.oberlin.edu/~allenart/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York, NY)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its
collections include more than two million works of art—several hundred thousand of which are on
view at any given time—spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the
present.
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/opening/enter1.html
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Kansas City, MO)
Located in the very middle of the United States, The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art is one of the country’s premier art institutions. Its rich
collections bring together masterpieces from every culture and period
of the world, from ancient times to the present day.
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(San Francisco, CA)
The De Young Museum and the Legion of Honor were deeded to the City of San Francisco
by their founders. In 1970 their museums' boards of directors
agreed that their common purposes could be achieved more
efficiently by one institution, and that they could thus make greater
local and national impact.
http://www.thinker.org/
Milwaukee Art Museum
(Milwaukee, WI)
The Milwaukee Art Museum, established in 1888, is located downtown inside the lakefront's War Memorial Center. Designed
by famed architect Eero Saarinen, the museum was built in 1957 and includes a major addition in 1975. The collection
comprises more than 20,000 works of art including 15th to 20th century European and American paintings, sculpture, prints,
drawings, photography and decorative arts.
http://service.alpha.net/www.mam.org/index.htm
Yale University Art Gallery
(????, CT)
A tour of the Yale Art Gallery will take you
through outstanding collections of Egyptian,
Etruscan, and Greek art, early Italian panel
paintings, European, Asian and African art from
many cultures, impressionist, modernist, and
contemporary paintings and sculpture as well as
changing selections from over 30,000 master
prints, drawings, and photographs. The collection
of American paintings and decorative arts is
considered one of the finest in the world.
http://www.yale.edu/artgallery/
Duke University Museum of Art
(Durham, NC)
Duke University Museum of Art website is under some constuction still, but it is worth a peek. They have many permenant exhibitions, as well as some special temporary ones. As far as I can tell it should be a wonderful, well-organized website for the public.
http://www.duke.edu/web/duma/
