Museums
Welcome to Museum links. A portal to the world of art!
Last updated 7/5/05
Sacramento 
Greater Sacramento Area & Reno 
Bay Area 
Southern California 
Northwest 
Western States 
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Washington D.C. Area 
Boston and Northeast Area 
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Mid-West 
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Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
Art Foundry Gallery
Barton Gallery
b. sakata garo
- Comment: Exhibitions are usually beyond that of a commercial gallery.
Crocker Art Museum
- Annual attendance; 150,000
- Comment: ''Sacramento's Crocker needs our community support. Surely we can do better in attendance than being ranked near the bottom of this long list of museums.''
- A small museum shop
CSUS Galleries & Museums
- Annual attendance; unknown
- Comment: Includes: Robert Else Gallery, Raymond Witt Gallery, University Union Gallery, and my favorite University Library Gallery, which has had some great show recently. Park in the high rise, and it is an easy walk to all.
Doiron Gallery
Elliot Fouts Gallery
Exploding Head Gallery
40 Acres Art Gallery
La Raza Galeria Posada
JAYJAY Gallery
Pamela Skinner Gallery
SFAC Sacramento Fine Arts Center
Smith Gallery
Solomon Dubnick Gallery
- Comments: With its Tower Gallery, SD is one of the best in town
Tower Framing and Design
Toy Room Gallery
Viewpoint Gallery
- Comment: Premier Photography Gallery
Greater Sacramento Area
Chico, CA
Janet Turner Print Gallery, Chico
- Annual attendance: Unknown
- Comment: California State University, Chico is the home of the repository of her extensive collection of fine art original prints. The Turner Collection represents a spectrum of printmaking techniques from over forty countries and six centuries.
Davis, CA
John Natsoulas Gallery
- Annual attendance: 50,000 approx.
- Opinion: As much a museum as a commercial gallery. Gallery has a small museum shop
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (Closed for renovations)
- Comments: Non-profit gallery building a new home.
UC Davis Galleries & Museums
- Annual attendance: 13,400
- Comment: Plan ahead before you go. Includes Design Museum, Carl M Gorman Museum, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, good ceramics show at the Memorial Union gallery
Reno, NV
Nevada Museum of Art NMA
- Annual attendance: 90,000 (seems low)
- Comment: The museum is brand new, very modern, and has some good shows. The exterior was designed to look like a piece of desert outcropping.
Stockton, CA
Haggin Museum
- Annual attendance: unknown
- Comment: Not an Art Museum per se. The permanent art collection features work by noted 19th Century painters such as Albert Bierstadt
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Bay Area 
Recommended: "art-Sites San Francisco" 2003 by Sidra Stich. This $19.95 book lists hundreds of art sites in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Art Museum and PFA
- Annual attendance: 260,000
- Comment: One of the largest university art museums in the United States. PFA stands for Pacific Film Archive. Contemporary building design. Very little "2D" art on walls. Parking problem. Take in the University of California's Worth Ryder Gallery across the street.
- Strengths: Hans Hoffman, survey of American art, film library
- OK restaurant and a small museum shop
Oakland, CA
Oakland Museum of California
- Annual attendance: 250,000
- Showing: Strong permanent collection of California art and artists, including Arthur & Lucia Mathews and many other fine landscape painters.
- Comment: Not an art museum per se. Excellent California history section.
- A good museum shop
San Francisco, CA
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (Review article)
- Comment: Small gallery, worth a visit. Include the San Francisco Art Institute up the street to see the Diego Rivera Mural and exhibits
Crown Point Press, San Francisco
- Comment: Worth a visit. Specializes in fine art prints. Great website for learning the processes and see prints. Hard to find location. Parking problem. They sell some books and sell over the internet.
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco
- Comment: Worth a visit. Great web site that shows the art inventory. From their web site: ''now in its 28th year'' ''One of the premier academic galleries in the U.S.'' ''Strong stable of academic realists'' They sell a few artist show-books. The man at their desk said with pride "we are the biggest and best gallery in San Francisco for sure and probably all of California."
Pasquale Iannetti Art Gallery, San Francisco
- Comment: From their web site: ''one of the most highly regarded galleries on the West Coast specializing in fine original prints'' ''features work by European, American, & Mexican Masters through the 20th century'' Great web site for seeing selections of the artists' work. Gallery is in the middle of gallery row on Sutter St.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Attendance: 600,000
- Comment: The museum's architecture and permanent collection of paintings is not to be missed. ''The architecture is strong it can over powers the art''
- Good restaurant and a great museum shop
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
California Palace of Legion of Honor
- Annual attendance: 750,000
- Comment: Beautiful setting in Lincoln Park with ocean and bridge views. This museum is a not to be missed experience. My only misgiving with it is the Holocaust Memorial seems out of place. Parking can be a problem.
- Strengths: Rodin Collection, European old masters, Achenbach collection of works on paper. Excellent temporary exhibits.
- Good restaurant and a good museum shop
- 82,000 images available from their web database
- Create your own virtual gallery.
The deYoung Museum is closed till 2005
- Comment: View the construction photos on the web site
San Jose Museum of Art
- Annual Attendance: 200,000
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
- Annual Attendance: 150,000
- Comment: It is just across the street from SFMOMA. The visual arts is one part of the center.
- No onsite restaurant or a museum shop
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Southern California 
Irvine, CA
Irvine Museum
- Annual attendance: 16,000
- Strengths: Museum is dedicated to display & preservation of the art of California Impressionism, 1890-1930
Laguna Beach, CA
Laguna Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 200,000 (seems too high)
La Jolla, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
- Attendance: 135,000
- Comments: Contemporary exhibitions. Museum has a beautiful ocean view setting. La Jolla has a good commercial gallery district. Museum has a branch location in San Diego. No restaurant, good store.
Los Angeles, CA
The Getty - www.getty.edu
- Annual Attendance: 400,000
- Comment: The architecture and setting out shines the visual art
- Strengths: Antiquities, selected European paintings, French decorative arts, illustrative manuscripts, art education, city views, gardens, etc.
- Good restaurants and a good museum shop
LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 800,000
- Comment: A great museum. Allow a lot of time to take it all in.
- Showing: There are usually many exhibitions currently showing.
- Strengths: Extensive temporary shows, broad collections
- Good restaurant and a great museum shop
- Half of their large collection is on line (46,104)
MOCA: Museum of Contemporary Art
- Annual attendance: 350,000
- Comment: The museum is at three different locations. A small cafe at main location.
UCLA Armand Hammer Museum
- Annual Attendance: 120,000
- Comment: Good museum book store, no restaurant. Good parking in building.
Newport Beach, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- Attendance: 70,000 w/2 Locations (seems low)
Pasadena
Norton Simon Museum
- Attendance: 150,000
- Comment: The Norton collection is well worth a visit. 'One of the world's finest private collection of European and Asian art.' It has 30 galleries and 1000 works on view
- A good museum shop. No restaurant.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, San Marino
- Annual attendance: 565,000
- Comment:: Whole complex, gardens, library, are well worth a visit. Virtual tour of the gardens is most interesting.
San Diego, CA
San Diego Museum of Art SDMA
- Annual attendance: 400,000
- Comment: SDMA is always worth a visit. Check out the Timken Museum next door, and The Museum of Photographic Arts nearby
- OK museum shop
Timken Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 93,000
- Comment: It's free, small, and worth a visit to see their European art when at the San Diego Museum of Art
- No restaurant or museum shop
San Marino
Huntington Library, Art Collections, San Marino
- Annual attendance: 565,000
- Comment:: Whole complex, gardens, and library, are well worth a visit. Virtual tour of the gardens is interesting.
- Tea room and a good museum shop
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 130,000
- Comment: 'a small gem of a museum'
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Northwest 
Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 350,000
Seattle, WA
Frye Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 102,000
- Comment: Museum aptly described as the 'The Jewel on the Hill' and it is free.
- Cafe and a small museum shop.
Henry Art Gallery Seattle
- Annual Attendance: 65,000
- Comment: Beautiful new building on the University of Washington Campus
- Strengths: A contemporary museum
Seattle Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 400,000
- Comment: 'Friendly old downtown museum' and the Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park. Large expansion program underway. Small cafe and a good museum store.
- Strengths: Asian, African, Northwest Coast Native American Art, Kress Collection of Italian Renaissance, Baroque, and Northern European Art.
Tacoma, WA
(Tacoma/Seattle is the place to go to see art glass)
Tacoma Art Museum
- Attendance: 100,000
- Comment: Very contemporary museum building and exhibits. Small cafe and museum store. Parking problem.
Chihuly Bridge of Glass
- The "Bridge" is a pedestrian bridge across a freeway to the Museum of Glass
Museum of Glass
- Attendance: Unknown
- Comments: The "Hot Shop" alone is worth a visit. This is a moderinistic building 90 ft tall that has many glass blowing stations-furnaces working. Seating & TV for audience. The museum show I saw was out there a bit. Good cafe & good museum shop.
Vancouver, BC Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, BC Canada
- Attendance: Unknown
- Comment Largest art museum in western Canada. Known for the largest collection of BC artist Emily Carr.
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Western States 
Cody, WY
Whitney Gallery of Western Art
- Annual Attendance: 250,000 (Buffalo Bill Historical Center)
- Comments: "one of the most extensive collections of Western Art"
Denver, CO
Denver Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 334,000
Las Vegas, NV
Claude Monet at the Bellagio
- Annual attendance: unknown
- Comment: At the Bellagio Hotel Casino, small well-executed exhibit
- Showing: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts lends 21 Monet Masterworks
Guggenheim at the Venetian
- Annual attendance: unknown
- Comment: At The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino
Las Vegas Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 59,000
- Comment: Appears to have a great building and a virtual museum, but has a very confusing out of date web site. Strangely the location doesn't appear on Las Vegas tourist maps. I was there in April, but didn't have time to find it.
Wynn Collection, Las Vegas (Review article)
- Annual attendance: Show closed
- Comment: Museum closed May 8th, and will reopen next year
Mt. Carmel, UT
Maynard Dixon Museum
- Comment: Tiny Mt. Carmel and it's Maynard Dixon Summer Home is soon home to the Thunderbird Foundation Museum. The museum will honor Maynard Dixon's art and legacy and art of the west. Visitors receive a warm welcome from hosts Susan and Paul Bingham.
Norman, OK
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: Unknown
- Strengths: French Impressionism, collections of American Art of the 2nd quarter of the 20th Century
- Museum is part on the University of Oklahoma
Phoenix, AR
Phoenix Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 500,000
- Strengths: American Western Art. Painters of Taos and Santa Fe Schools
Santa Fe, NM
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
- Annual attendance: 30,000
- Comment: The museum has 130 paintings, drawings, & sculpture by Ms. O'Keeffe
Scottsdale, AR
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts
- Annual attendance: 380,000 (seems way to high for this small museum)
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New York Area 
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 500,000 (seems too low)
- Showing: ''About Time 700 Years of European Painting''. This large museum has many shows running.
- Comment: BMA is a well kept secret in the museum world with 1.5 million works of art in the permanent collection and 560,000 square feet of space, second largest museum in New York City Web site leads to a Adobe Reader document.
Manhattan
Art Students League of New York
- Comment: Roaming the halls & exhibits of this classic school is a great art experience
The Drawing Center
- Annual Attendance: 100,000
- Comment: ''The only non-profit to focus on the exhibition of drawings'' Fairly small place with lots of foot traffic in Soho. Work was well displayed
- No restaurant or store
Frick Collection, New York
- Annual Attendance: 270,000
- Comment: Occupies the downtown anchor of New York's 'Museum Mile'. The site has a virtual museum tour. It is the former home of Henry Clay Frick
- Strength: Art of Western Europe with emphasis on the 17th to 19th centuries
Guggenheim Museum New York
- Annual attendance: 925,000
- Strengths: 20th-century non-objective art. Strong collections including holdings of Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky, Chagali, etc.
- Comment: Mr.Guggenheim bought art by the carload, when avant-garde art was rather unknown in America and rather inexpensive. Unique show place by Frank Lyold Wright. There are satellite museums in Soho, Bilbao. Spain, and in Venice.
The Jewish Museum New York
- Annual attendance: 225,000
- Comment: ''The museum examines through art the interaction between continuity and change in the Jewish culture''
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
- Annual attendance: 5,500,000
- Comment: 'A world class museum' 'Undisputedly greatest museum in America' 'Encyclopedic collections, Temporary blockbuster shows'
MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art
- Annual attendance: 1,500,000
- Opinion: 'The MOMA houses the most comprehensive collection of 20th-century art in the world'
- Showing: 'Painting and sculpture from the collections' While the building is being renovated, the operations have shifted to the Queens
Whitney Museum of American Art
- Annual attendance: 274,000
- Comment: Two museums in NYC
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Washington D.C. Area 
Alexandra, VA
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
- Annual attendance: 800,000
- Comment: 'largest and most successful art center in the country' '160 professional artists working in 84 studios and the work of an additional 2000 artists are displayed (on a rotating basis?) in its 6 (8?) galleries.'
Baltimore, MD
The Baltimore Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 278,000
- Comment: One of the largest collections of Matisse anywhere in the world
Washington DC
Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Annual attendance: 250,000
National Gallery of Art Washington D.C.
- Annual attendance: 6.000,000
- Comment: 'World class art museum' Good restaurants and museum stores
The Phillips Collection
- Annual attendance: 200,000
- Comment: A gem of a small museum
Smithsonian Museums, D.C.
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Annual attendance: 583,000
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Annual attendance: 784,000
National Portrait Gallery, D.C. (closed for renovation)
- Annual attendance: 350,000
- Comment: Reopens in 2006. Visit the on-line exhibits. Unique setting in the Old Patent Office Building
National Museum of American Art D.C.
- Annual attendance: 400,000
National Museum of African Art
- Annual attendance: 281,000
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Boston and Northeast Area 
Bennington, VT
Bennington Museum, Vermont
- Annual attendance: 50,000
- Comment: Largest collection of Grandma Moses' paintings 'Early Americana at its finest'
Boston, MA
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Annual attendance: 172,000
- Comment: Not to be missed experience. The art is often difficult to appreciate, crowded, poorly lit. (I was there 10 years ago)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Annual attendance: Unknown
- Strengths: High profile traveling exhibits, broad collections, Own 36 paintings by Monet, largest collection outside France. His contemporaries are well represented.
Hartford, CT
Wadsworth Atheneum
- Annual attendance: 160,000
- Comment: The oldest public art museum in the country. It has a big reputation. Largest collection of Hudson River Landscapes in the country.
Cambridge, MA
Harvard University Art Museums
- Annual attendance: unknown
- Comment: This includes: The Fogg Museum, The Arthur M. Slackler Museum, & The Busch-Reisinger Museum
Stockbridge, MA
Norman Rockwell Museum
- Annual attendance: 225,000
- Comment: The museum houses the largest and most significant collect of the artist's work: 574 original paintings and drawings and the artist's archive of 100,000 items
Worcester, MA
Worcester Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 135,000
- Comment: 2nd largest museum in New England
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Pennsylvania 
Doylestown, PA
James A. Michener Art Museum
- Annual Attendance: 90,000
- Comment: Known for its extensive collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist Collection. It has a permanent exhibit about James Michener
Merion, PA (just outside of Philadelphia)
Barnes Foundation, Merion PA
- Annual Attendance: Limited to 1,200 visitors a day, has a 50 car parking lot. Reservations only
- Comment: "one of the finest collections of early French modern and post-Impressionist in the world" Heated battle has been raging for years on whether to allow the public to see the collection
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 800,000
- Showing: : This large museum has many exhibits showing.
- Strengths: Broad collection. "Largest collection of Thomas Eakins. Ten acres of space, 200 galleries, 500,000 works of art"
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- Annual attendance: 75,000
- Comment: Classic art school. Some good art-in-progress in the school halls. The nations' first and oldest art school and museum in the country
- Strength: Overview of American art. Examples of the academy's many illustrious alumni, among them Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri, etc.
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
- Annual attendance: 58,000
- Museum is administer by Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pittsburg, PA
Carnegie Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 860,000
Andy Warhol Museum
- Annual attendance: 70,000
- Comment: Part of the Carnegie Museums
- Strengths: Complete survey of the artist's work
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Mid-West 
Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago
- Annual attendance: 1,478,000
- Comment: One of the world's leading art museums. 'One of the finest collections of Impressionist art in the world'
Museum of Contemporary Art
- Annual attendance: 80,000
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 630,000
- Comment: Broad collection.
Detroit, MI
The Detroit Institute of Arts
- Annual attendance: 591,000
- Showing: This large museum has many exhibits currently showing.
- Strength: Holdings of 60,000 works and over 100 galleries
- Opinion: From DIA's web site: 'One of the largest and most significant collections in the country'
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Annual Attendance: 500,000
- Strength: Broad collection, 22 galleries dedicated to just Asian Art
- Comment: It is free. Many exhibitions running at the same time.
Poplar Bluff, MO
Margaret Harwell Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 13,000
- Comment: Located in a historic building. Also offers children's art classes. Davida's home town
St. Louis, MO
Saint Louis Art Museum
- Attendance: 480,000
- Comment: The building was part of the 1904 World's Fair. It has a 100 galleries.
- Strengths: Broad collection. German Expressionism, Max Beckman, good collection of American, European, etc.
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Southern States 
Atlanta, GA
High Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 310,000
- Opinion: ''the architecture overwhelms the art, similar to San Francisco's MOMA''
- Strength: Wide range of collections, including the Kress collection. Growing body of contemporary works. Shows some of its work by theme rather than chronological order. In other words Flower paintings might all be shown together without regard to when they were done or by whom.
Dallas, TX
Dallas Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 400,000
- Opinion: 'A rich museum in search of identity.'
- Strengths: Comprehensive collections
Fort worth, TX
Kimbell Art Museum
- Annual attendance: 284,000
- Comment: Kimball has some good traveling exhibitions
The Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth
- Annual attendance: 80,000
- Comment: 'An architectural jewel' 'takes your breath away'
Houston, TX
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Annual attendance: 1,100,000
- Showing: ''The Spirited Vision: Highlights of the Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law''
- Strength: Strong collections
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 344,000
Richmond, VA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts VMFA
- Annual attendance: 368,000
- Strengths: 19th & 20th C European
Sarasota, FL
Ringling Museum of Art
- Annual attendance: 280,000
- Strengths: Baroque art. Largest collection of works by Rubens in the U.S.
- Comments: See also the Circus Museum and the Ca d'Zan Mansion
St. Petersburg, FL
Salvador Dali Museum
- Attendence: 250,000
- Comment: 'This museum has the most comprehensive collection of the artist's work' (in the USA?)
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Comments/Misc. 
Overall comments:
There are over 1,700 art museums and not-for-profit exhibition galleries plus some commercial galleries that are similar to museums. The following list contains about 90. My primary emphasis is American and European art, especially paintings from the 19th Century. Art works that people who attend the 20th St Gallery might enjoy.
The larger museums can have many temporary exhibits running at the same time. They can have satellite museums and lend portions of their collections to other locations. For instance in Las Vegas, The Wynn Collection and Guggenheim Las Vegas. There are always a number of traveling shows making the rounds. Many are "must see" events and require special ticketing and reservations.
With so much to see, travel being difficult, and museums hours limited, a good solution is the museum web site. It is possible to visit these museums on the computer screen. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some sites have virtual tours, but I have trouble getting most of them to work, lacking the right "plug-ins" or they are not worth the effort. At best they show what the interior looks like. See the Frick Collection, New Yor. It is fun to move from room to room. An ipix plug-in was needed. An unbiased, more or less, outside review of many exhibitions are posted on the internet, for instance: Wynn Collection. Las Vegas.
This list could have been increased by adding: Hearst Castle at San Simeon, Anchorage Museum of History and Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, museums in Hawaii, many of the college museums, and many of the fine museums in Canada.
Trivia questions:
What is the largest portrait museum in the world?
The art museum having the most attendance?
The richest art museum?
The most seen popular exhibition last year?
How many museums are under the Smithsonian banner?
The smallest museum in square footage?
Which city has the "Museum Mile"?
What is the average percentage of museum cost is covered by admissions?
What is one of the most controversial museum/collection?
What are the most expensive pictures?
What is art by Wayne Thiebaud selling for?
What museum has the best collection of Impressionist & Post Impressionist art?
Name 40+ movies about artists and the art scene.
Answers below
Reference Books:
America's Art Museums by Suzanne Loebl 2002
'A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small'
Art Museum Exhibitions from The New York Times 2004
'The essential guide for the traveling art lover'
Art Across America by Russell and Spenser 2000
A Comprehensive Guide to American Art Museums and Exhibition Galleries'
Web Sites dealing with museums & galleries:
AAM - American Association of Museums The museum association. All museum including art.
ArtScene - Art, Museum, Gallery, Painting A guide to the art scene in Southern CA
AskART.com A web site that tracks artist's auction prices. "The artist's Bluebook, a guide to 32,000 artists" The site charges a fee for some information. Information records on thousands of American artists
Art Museum Network "Official web site of leading museums." Has news, links, sesarch to collections. 200 museums
Museums and Museum Sites
fine Art forum resource directory
MuseumSpot.com On line museum network, all types of museums
Art Museums An international index/links of major museums
MOCA, on-line archives ''California Museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections''.
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine Information of 125,000 works of art.
This site will lead you to individual works in various museums
AllPosters.com - Museum Posters Contains 26,000 pictures of museum images
Inquiries to Yahoo and Google will yield millions of hits
| National Gallery, Washington D.C.
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6,000,000
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| MET New York
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5,500,000
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| Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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unknown
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| MOMA New York
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1,500,000
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| Chicago Art Institute
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1,478,000
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| Museum of Fine Art Houston
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1,100,000
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| Guggenheim, New York
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925,000
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| Carneige Museum of Art
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860,000
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| Los Angeles County LACMA
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800,000
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art
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800,000
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| Torpedo Factory Art Center
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800,000
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| Hirshorn, Washington D.C.
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784,000
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| San Francisco Fine Art Museums
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750,000
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| Cleveland Museum of Art
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631,000
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"There is no offical list of museums by attendance, wealth, or size." American Association of Museums
Answers:
- National Portrait Gallery in London with 80,000 portraits.
- Probably the Louvre or Tate.
- The Getty
- Leonard Da Vinci, Master Draftsman at the MET.
- 14.
- Probably the Timkin in San Diego, CA. ''We are one of the smaller museums in square footage, but are very important in the quality of our collection''
- New York City.
- 5%.
- Barnes Foundation
- Most Expensive: 104 Million For Picasso's ''Boy and a Pipe'' Next 82.5 Million by Getty Museum for Van Gogh's Dr. Pachett. And about 40 million paid for Jasper Johns' Gray Number (1958) by David Geffen.
- "Art News" has Wayne Thiebaud in the 2 million - 4 million range
- Musee d'Orsay in Paris
- See Art Movies Movies involving artists, and the art scene
Web Site Rating
These web site ratings are arbitrary on my part. I personally go to museums to browse the art. At each web site I looked at current exhibitions and the collection(s). Sometimes the information is there but was not obvious quickly. I am interested in seeing pictures, a description of the artwork and some background on the artist. My personal interest is in American & Late European Art, specifically paintings. I took the size of the institution into account. A general rule seems to be, if the work changes often, I find text and a few pictures. If the museum showing is more or less static, the picture viewing is better. Commercial sites often do a good job. Museum sites have a lot of information that a viewer from another area might never be interested in. For an audience seeking images, the web makes sense. San Franciso Art Museums get 250,000 people a month looking at it. Only about 5% of Crocker's museum collection might be shown at one time. Their total collection is 10,000. Crocker's on going effort is to put all their collection online. Refer: Sacramento Bee July 5th, 2004 Scene pages E1 & E2, "Virtual Canvas" An great article about putting a collection on line.
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Shows collection and exhibits in depth
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Gives a good idea of what is showing & in the collections
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| OK:
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Satisfactory, good idea of what museum has to offer
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| FAIR:
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Little information is there, confusing, out of date
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| INFORMATIONAL
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Basic information
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| No Website
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E-mail me directly to add your opinions, corrections, and exhibit information. xobeci@pacbell.net This is a 'work-in-progress' effort.
Jim Ferry and The 20th St. Art Gallery
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