Museum and Gallery Websites:
- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: This is the official site of the VMFA, which includes information on current and upcoming exhibitions. On this site teachers can find lesson plans and activities that go along with the exhibitions. The museum website also offers information on classes and workshops to enhance teacher or student knowledge.
- The National Gallery of Art: This is the official website for the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. It offers online access to its permanent collection and gives teachers a resource for research on artists and significant time periods. The site also offers a link to its NGA classroom where the teacher can find nine interactive lesson units that are meant to bridge several art movements via separate topics.
- The National Gallery of Art, Kids: This website, though part of the larger NGA website is devoted specifically to a younger audience. It serves as a great way for children to create interactive art online using mixed media from natural and man-made resources as well as pieces from the NGA's collection.
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art: This official site of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. gives the viewer a look at its permanent collection as well as offering information on field trips or about educational programs taught by the gallery's instructors.
- The Chrysler Museum of Art: The Chrysler Museum's website gives online access to its permanent collection and information on ongoing or upcoming exhibitions. This website can be a tool for student or teacher research on a particular artist or historical time period. It also offers online learning resources for teachers.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: This website offers teachers lesson plans, pre-visit guides, educator programs to enhance teacher learning, and a blog for high school students to contribute to. The site gives information on its current exhibitions, online access to its permanent collection, and news on recent acquisitions There are also a series of interactive videos and assorted media that relate to current and past exhibitions.
- The Modern Museum of Art: This is the official website for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The site offers viewers online access to its permanent collection and gives information about current, upcoming, or past exhibitions. Teachers are given access to lesson plans, tips, resources on Abstract Expressionism, and project ideas. Its primary focus is modern art and gives teachers pdf guides that chronicle modern art from 1882 to the present, with a series of subtopics that range from portraiture and landscapes to materials and processes.
- The Modern Museum of Art, Red Studio: Red Studio is sub-page of the official MOMA page. It is an interactive website that was created in collaboration with high school students across the country, addressing their questions and ideas about modern art. The site includes interviews with museum curators, modern artists, interactive activities, and REMIX, an interactive activity that allows users to create digital collages.
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art: The official website for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This site offers viewers access to its permanent collection online, information on supporting the museum, and information on current exhibitions. It also offers teachers lesson plans, educator profiles, and information on opportunities for professional development.
- The J. Paul Getty Museum: This is the official website for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The site offers lesson plans and activities for teachers, ESL resources specifically for the art classroom, formative assessment, information on techniques for different mediums, and an online discussion board for teachers. The student resource page includes information on comparisons between works at the museum and an introduction to art vocabulary that can be used orally, in written form, and during critiques.
- Google Art Project: This website is a digital gallery that applies to the view of Google Earth street view. The user can view galleries and museums internationally and across the country. Paintings can be viewed up close and it also offers excerpts about the work's historical context and a short biography of the artist. Users can create their own collections of personal "galleries" by uploading photos of their own.