This is a selected list of links to digitized art & image archives, and is by no means comprehensive. Many museum sites have digitized archives of their collections online; many academic institutions link to sites as well. For a good beginning, explore:
ARTstor, a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes, and the Voice of the Shuttle web page, below.
Indices & Compilations Getty Research Institute Voice of the Shuttle: art & art history
Digital Collections AcIS Imaging - Digital Access Project - New York Part of a digital imaging project at Columbia University Architecture Design Images History 3D Models and more - ... Art Images for College Teaching Art Museum Image Consortium Art Museum Network Search by region: links to museums - many which have digitized images of collections or exhibitions. Art on the Net Bibliotheque Nationale de France Christus Rex "CHRISTUS REX, INC. is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world." This page (at first glance) looks like a commercial site: please follow bulleted links for quality image archives. Digital Archive of American Architecture Boston University, featuring over 600 images of American architecture from the 17th -20th century. Digital Archive of European Architecture Exploratorium Official website of the San Francisco science museum. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Gallery of Graffiti Art Getty Center Image Database links Images of Medieval Art and Architecture IMLS Digital Collections Registry (Institute if Museum & Library Services) MOAC: Museums and the Online Archive of California Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art: Digital Works and Online Projects Museum Web Network National Gallery of ArtPerseus Project - Tufts University Tate Gallery
Individual Artists' Sites Search individual names of artists to locate sites with digitized images.
Western Libraries
Robyn Adcox, Reference Specialist, WWU Libraries (c) All rights reserved. Page updated: February 2008