Virtual museums
Guggenheim Museum, New York
See online exhibitions like But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa and The Little-Known Glass Works of Josef Albers here and virtually tour the building here
British Museum, London
Tour the museum’s Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone here.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Get a close look at the works of Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, and hundreds of other French painters here.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Walk among Vermeer, Rembrandt, and many more masters from the Dutch Golden Age here.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin
The Pergamon is one of Germany’s largest museums and it’s home for the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Greek Pergamon Altar. Visit it here.
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Catch up on the best of contemporary art from Korea here.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Explore an exhibition of American fashion from 1740 to 1895 and a collection of Vermeer paintings here.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Here is where you can find the largest collection of artworks by van Gogh, including more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and over 750 personal letters.
Louvre, Paris
The Louvre doesn’t need Google to create online tours for itself. It has its own virtual tours.
MASP, São Paulo
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is Brazil’s first modern art museum. Do visit it here.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Travel back in time to the 8th century with this collection of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Italy was hit hardest by the virus in Europe. Show some solidarity and pay this magnificent gallery a visit.
Research an artist
Richard Wilson Online Catalogue Raisonné
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Catalogue Raisonné
IMAGE DUPLICATOR is a search engine that allows you to find images and information on the artworks of Roy Lichtenstein.
Louise Bourgeois The Complete Prints & Books
Catalogues Raisonnés of Works by Salvador Dalí
Photography;
Paintings
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Granach Digital Archive 2,050 paintings
eBooks
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. You can search the catalog here
Announcing the National Emergency Library, a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. Learn more.
Moving images
UbuWeb-contemporary art video art
Art21: Contemporary art videos
Artnet article on Google Arts and Culture
MCN Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
National Gallery of Denmark (SMK): SMK Open
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: LACMA Collections
Museum of Modern Art: MoMA The Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
This Statement is meant to provide clarity for U.S. colleges and universities about how copyright law applies to the many facets of remote teaching and research in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Kyle K. Courtney is currently the Copyright Advisor for Harvard University--blog post (Part I & Part II) on exigent circumstances