Museum Virtual Tours

One of the best places to begin looking for virtual museum tours and looking at art online is by exploring the Google Arts and Culture Initiative.  Their mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online.  Google partners with many institutions large and small to make this possible.  The site is easy to use and allows you to search by genre, artist, museum, and explore current projects.

Explore their Museum Collection

Explore the Artist Collection

Explore different Mediums

Explore Art Movements

Washington DC area Museums

• National Gallery of Art
• Smithsonian Institution
  • American Art Museum
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Freer Gallery of Art
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • National Museum of African Art
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • National Portrait Gallery

New York area Museums

• Wikipedia offers an extensive list of New York City Museums as well as New York State Museums
• Metropolitan Museum of Art  includes American art and decorative arts, European, African, Asian, Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek art, Byzantine and Islamic art, modern art
• Bronx Museum of the Arts    focus on contemporary art
• Frick Collection  Old Master paintings and Renaissance art