LibGuides: Jacques English1A: Seeing

Art Museums

Below you will find a list of nearby museums for your "Seeing" assignment. Some of the museums are smaller and house local artists; while others are some of the largest in the country, holding thousands of objects dating from ancient times to the present.

ABRA Gallery
Westlake Village
Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB
Goleta
Autry National Center
Los Angeles (Griffith Park)
Carnegie Art Museum
Oxnard
Craft & Folk Art Museum
Los Angeles (Miracle Mile)
CSUN Art Galleries
Northridge
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) Museum and Galleries
Los Angeles (Downtown)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Los Angeles (Downtown)
Museum of Ventura County
Ventura
Norton Simon Museum
Pasadena
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The Fowler Museum at UCLA
Los Angeles (Westwood)
The Hammer Museum
Los Angeles (Westwood)
The Huntington Art Collections
@ The Huntington Library (San Marino)
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles (Brentwood)
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles (Miracle Mile)

Suggest Websites

The Following web sites provide detailed information about Art History:

Artsy.net An extensive free repository of fine-art images and an online art appreciation guide. They call it the "Art Genome Project" and its intention is similar to that of Pandora.

Art History Resources on the Web Covering art from all continents and throughout history, this impressive site gathers artistic movements and the museums that specialize in them into one handy resource.

ArtCyclopedia Need a little background on an artist, art piece, or artistic movement? ArtCyclopedia is your virtual art encyclopedia when you just don't know where to start.

Google Art Project Using Google's mapping technology, you can explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System The holdings of the Smithsonian’s archival, library and specialized research collections can be found online in the Smithsonian Research Information System (SIRIS). SIRIS covers a wide variety of subjects within Art History.