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Art Research Guide

Museums

 

Museum websites are great resources to browse and learn about collections.  You can also find information about current exhibitions!  

Highlighted Museums

The United States of America has several notable art museums that expand beyond the scope of this list.  Below are a few highlighted art museums and galleries, listed alphabetically, to get you started in your research.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California

Dia: Beacon, New York, New York

Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.

The Frick Collection, New York, New York

The Guggenheim, New York, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Art is something that is appreciated around the world.  Check out the collections at these highlighted international museums, which are listed alphabetically, below.

Louvre, Paris, France

Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

The National Gallery, London, England

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea

Polo Museale of Florence, Florence, Italy

The Prado, Madrid, Spain

The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Uffizi Gallery Museum, Florence, Italy

Vatican Museums, Vatican City

There's a lot of art in North Carolina!  Take a look at the websites for the museums listed below to get browse their collections, expand your knowledge, and maybe plan a visit. 

The selections below are organized by museums that are closest to Greensboro, North Carolina, first and become further in distance from Greensboro as you move down the list.

Greensboro
Elsewhere
Greenhill Gallery

Guilford College Art Gallery

Weatherspoon Art Museum

Winston-Salem
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Reynolda House
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art

Raleigh
North Carolina Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of History

Durham
Center for Documentary Studies
NCCU Art Museum

Chapel Hill
Ackland Art Museum

Charlotte
Mint Museum

Western NC (Generally)
Asheville Art Museum
Black Mountain College Project
Hickory Museum of Art

Eastern NC (Generally)