International Art Galleries and Museums

The Americas

• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia The mission of this Canadian Art Gallery is to serve the public by bringing the visual arts and people together in an environment which encourages exploration, dialogue and enjoyment.

• Art Gallery of Ontario This gallery exhibits its collection in 50 galleries. The gallery is committed to research about the art of our time and the past.

• National Gallery of Canada Inaugurated in 1880, the mandate of the gallery is to develop, maintain and make known through Canada and internationally a national collection of works of art.

• Museo de Arte Moderno Contains work by David Alfaro Siguaros, Jose Clemente Crozco, Diego Rivera, Oliverio Martinez, Frida Kahlo and Cordelia Ureta and others. The gallery shows representative works of South American artists.

• Museo Nacional del Prado Has an extensive collection of paintings as well as drawings, etchings, coins and medals, sumptuary and decorative art.

• National Gallery of Art This Washington collection illustrates major achievements in painting, sculpture and graphic arts from the middle ages to the present.

• New York City Museums Gives links to museums in New York city.

Europe

• Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation This is the largest museum of Modern Art in Central Europe (Vienna). Site is maintained by the Missing Link

• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium This site comprises the Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of Modern Art. It is the country's largest museum and the various collections range from the XIVth century to the present day.

• Finland's Museums From the National Board of Antiquities, Finland.

• Modern Museum Collection includes 30,000 watercolors, drawings, graphics and 20,000 photographs (Sweden)

• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Berlin's 17 state museums were united in 1991. They embrace the areas of European and extra-European art, archaeology and ethnology

• Uffizi Gallery Created by the Medici in the XVIth century the Uffizi in Florence appears in the specialized form of a pinacotheca.

• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Has an internationally renowned collection based around the paintings of the 17th century Dutch Republic. There are also collections of silver, delftware, dolls houses, prints, drawings and Asian art

• Centre for Contemporary Art This centre has exhibitions, performances, presentations of visual theatre, concerts of contemporary music, sharing of experimental films, video art, creative workshops and interdisciplinary events.

France, Ireland and the UK

• Le Louvre Established in 1793 by the French Republic the Louvre collection incorporates works dating from birth of the great antique civilizations right up to the first half of the XIXth century.

• Museums of Paris This site provides links to museums in Paris.

• National Gallery of Ireland The collection spans from the XIVth to the XXth century and includes all the major continental schools. Irish painting is charted from its re-emergence in the XVIIth to XXth artists

• Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum Opened in 1885. Its collection includes painting, sculpture and graphics from the 15th century to the present day.

• British Museum Founded in 1753. This collection spans two million years of human history and houses a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures

• National Gallery Houses the national collection of western European painting. It covers every European school of painting from 1260 - 1900

• Royal Academy of Arts It is a permanent collection comprising of examples of British art from the 18th century to present day.

• Tate Gallery The Tate operates on four sites in different parts of Britain. It houses the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present day including the Turner bequest and the natural collection of international modern art.

Asia

• Museums in Hong Kong A site maintained by the Leisure and Cultural Services department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

• China's Museum Official site of the museums in China

• National Palace Museum Inaugurated in 1925, the museum has as its mission the protection and preservation of the 7000 year cultural legacy of China and to showcase the collection to the global community. From Taiwan.

• Israel Museum This is Israel's national museum which showcases the cultural heritage of the Jewish people and Israel

• Osaka National Museum of Art The main purpose of the museum is to show with exhibitions, how Japanese art developed in close relation to the art of the world, without restrictions or regional divisions.

• Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Collections cover periods of history from ancient times to the New Age and are represented in plaster casts, maquetta, pictorial and galvanic copies.

• Asia Society Dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia and communication between America and the people of Asia and the Pacific. It is a non profit, non political educational institution founded in 1956 by John D Rockerfeller 3rd located in New York.

• Tokugawa Art Museum Japan Establishes under the non profit Tikugawa Reimeikau foundation in 1935. At the core of the collection are objects inherited from the first shogun Ieyasu.

Other Regions

• Auckland Art Gallery A large and comprehensive collection of New Zealand art.

• Durban Art Gallery Its collecting focus is concentrated on works which reflect the rich multi-cultural diversity of Durban and South Africa.

• Art Crimes A gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world which includes more than 3000 images.

• The Alternative Museum An experiment in global sharing of art and culture in a way that has never been possible with traditional institutions.