Research Guides: Museum Studies: Web Resources

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On the Web

Archive Grid
ArchiveGrid is a database where thousands of museums, libraries, and archives have contributed information about their collections, including catalog records and/or finding aids.
Art Museum Network
A platform for the concerns of art museum leaders, it provides links to articles, blogs, position papers, presentations, and discussions about key issues for art museums.
Artefacts Canada
A database of over 4 million object records from Canadian museums and collections.
ARTstor
Contains nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
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The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.
Inexhibit
Inexhibit is a web portal dedicated to permanent and temporary exhibition spaces. It’s a site to showcase exhibition centers and museums and to be a virtual meeting point for professionals.
Museum Management Program
A program under the National Park Service that includes exhibits, publications, park profiles, lesson plans for teaching with museum collections, and an on-line searchable databases of selected park museum collections.
Smithsonian Library, Archives, and Research Catalogs
The Smithsonian's searchable catalog.
Provenance Research - Getty Museum
The Getty Provenance Index Databases contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century.
Smithsonian Museum Studies
Website for the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies with information about museum studies, museology resources, training, and more.

Online Reference Works

American Institute for Conservation Learning Portal
Access to print materials and webinars related to the conservation of cultural heritage.
The Getty Vocabularies
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ®, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ®, and the Union List of Artist Names ® are structured vocabularies that can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and material culture.