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Art/Art History: Museums & Collections

Contains historical photographic exhibits online along with a guide to Protecting and Preserving Photographs.

Includes all of the Archives of American Art records. Provides access to primary sources that document American visual arts. Sources from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

New York, New York.

The Smithsonian's museum of international modern and contemporary art.

New York, NY.

To find Literary & Historical Manuscripts, select the drop down menu from the top right corner. Click Collection, and then Collection Highlights. New York, New York

Browse the Museum's holdings online through a fully searchable database. The MFAH also holds a prominent collection of Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art

Washington, D.C.

"The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art fosters the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity." Smithsonian Institution.

First collection of American art in the United States with works by over 7000 artists from colonial times to the present. Explore the Research and Collections tabs in the top menu. Smithsonian Institution.

The Textile Museum was established in 1925 by George Hewitt Myers in order to "expand public knowledge and appreciation of the artistic merits and cultural importance of the world's textiles." The collection today contains more than 20,000 textiles, and is housed on George Washington University's Foggy Bottom Campus in D.C.

A searchable collection of art works from Harvard’s Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler Museums. Provides provenance and exhibition histories.

Boston, MA.

An Emmanuel ID gains admission to regular hours of the Museum for the entire Emmanuel community; it does not gain access to special events. Boston, MA.

Emmanuel students, faculty and staff have free general admission to the MFA with their Emmanuel IDs.

Located in Salem, Massachusetts, the Peabody collection spans 200 years of history, representing: American Decorative Arts; Asian, Oceanic and African Arts and Culture; Asian Export Art; Early American Architecture; Maritime Art and History; Native American Art and Archaeology; and Natural History.