Looking at Art: Selected Museum Sites

"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."-- Pablo Picasso

Looking for inspiration? Visit the art museum sites below, selected by Collins art teachers Ms. Flynn, Ms. Politis, and Ms. Telles.

Art Access
This site, created by the Art Institute of Chicago and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, features examples of art and objects from several areas of the Institute's permanent collections, including: African American Art; American Art to 1900; Ancient Indian Art of the Americas; Art of Africa; Impressionism and Post-Impressionism; India, Himalayas & Southeast Asia; Modern and Contemporary Art; Renaissance & Baroque Art; and Rococo to Realism.

Art Interactive: Learn About Sculpture (from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian's museum of international modern and contemporary art)
This site features a fun interactive sculpture site.

Art Safari: An Adventure in Looking, for Children and Adults, by Joyce Raimondo, for the Museum of Modern Art
This interactive resource challenges children to analyze artwork through a series of questions.

Art Zone (from NGAkids)
This fun National Gallery of Art site features interactive art activities for students.

Children's Museum of Manhattan

For Kids: the Getty Museum and Whyville (from the J. Paul Getty Museum)
Learn about the Getty Museum's art treasures while exploring the games at this site.

Inside Art: An Adventure in Art History (from Educational Web Adventures)
This interactive art history site is designed for younger students.

Matisse for Kids (from the Baltimore Museum of Art)
Join Raoudi, Henri Matisse's schnauzer, for an online adventure, and along the way learn about this master's bold and wonderful artwork.

MOCHA: Museum of Children's Art (located in Oakland, California)

Museum of Fine Arts
Visit this site to search from among more than 325,000 works of "art from around the world and across the ages", available for viewing and copying.

Museum of Web Art: Kids
Check out this site for games, puzzles, and The LIZZYs - "the web's first animated musical" (created by Susan Finley, music by Tom Beyer, web design by Susan Finley & Barbara Genova).

MuseumKids
Kids, parents and teachers will enjoy this rich site, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which features interactive explorations, tours, games, puzzles and mysteries, as well as a terrific Timeline of Art History (searchable by time period or topic).

Peabody Essex Museum
This site features ARTscape, through which students can search for subjects that interest them among the PEM's many works of art, architecture, and culture, and create their own art "collections".

Sculpture
This resource, designed for younger children by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, introduces different types of sculpture.

SmartKids (from the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago)
Look at examples of artwork and learn about their history, learn about the vocabulary of art (just what DOES a curator do, exactly?), visit an artist's studio, create your own art, keep an online journal, and much more, at this terrific interactive site.

Smithsonian: Fun On-Line Stuff for Kids
This site features games, puzzles, trivia quizzes, and much more, as well as information for kids about how to begin their own collections of art or other interesting things. (Links to any plug-ins needed to run any of the games are available from this site.)

UC Berkeley Art Museum Online Guide
This terrific site, a nice overview for students who may soon be visiting an art museum, helps to teach them how to look at a piece of art by asking them a series of questions about selected paintings. It also features a helpful list of vocabulary terms, as well as an explanation of "How to Read a Museum Label".