Software for Art Education
ArtWebsite Web Links
Educate your students, their families, and your community by recommending educational web sites. Add and delete an unlimited number of web site links organized your choice of search categories. ArtWebsite starts you off with 48 museum web links.
Here are a few examples from the Museum Resources category. Each link will open into a second browser window so you can easily return to this site.
• Art Access, http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/
Examines objects from various areas of The Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent collection to enrich visitors' understanding of their content, style, and historical context.
• Art Interactive, http://hirshhorn.si.edu/education/interactive.html
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian's museum of modern art. Discover how modern and contemporary artists have used different methods and materials to convey their ideas. Make your own art online and see how it looks in the museum.
• ArtsEdNet, http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/
The Getty Museums Art Education web site. Exhibitions include "The Forum of Trajan in Rome: A Virtual Tour" and "Looking at Art of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Online Exhibition (also known as Beyond Beauty)"
• Explore & Learn, http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/index.asp
Metropoliatan Museum of Art online resources inlcuding a timeline of art history and interactive educational activities featuring current exhibitions.
• Explore Ancient Egypt, http://www.mfa.org/egypt/explore_ancient_egypt/
The Museum of Fine Arts houses one of the finest Egyptian collections of its kind in the world. Learn about Egyptian Art, go behind the scenes of excavations, and learn about history, language, religion, anthropology, and archaeology.
• J. Paul Getty Museum, http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/media_gallery.html
Informative online video gallery covering a variety of subjects including collection tours, a look behind the scenes at the museum, and art making techniques.
• Louvre Virtual Tour, http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Take a virtual reality tour through of the many gallery spaces of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
• National Gallery of Art, http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/
The Gallery's education division offers a wide range of programs and resources including in-depth studies exploring specific artists and themes.
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - E Space,http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/espace_overview.html
Offers direct access to commissioned artworks, permanent collection Web objects, and featured sites. Commissioned Web projects explore the new forms of storytelling in a space delineated by the personal computer screen as well as the hypermedia structure.
• The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=16
Online interactive programs providing a wealth of information on a variety of artists, cultures, styles, time periods, materials and techniques.