List of museums with online presences.

Visit selected museums via virtual panorama shots and view “featured artworks at high resolution” and “zoom into paintings.”

From the Smithsonian, an extensive collection of images and background material on American art.

Links to online collections of museums, searchable by artist and specific works.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "... pairs essays and works of art with chronologies..."

Descriptive database covering large sections of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For each item, may include photos and information such as Gallery label, additional views, provenance, exhibition history, references.

MetPublications is a portal to the Met’s publishing program. This resource will eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals published by the Metropolitan Museum, including online publications. Current titles may be previewed and fully searched online, with a link to purchase the book. The full contents of out of print titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF, at no cost.

Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Started by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. a multi-media survey of art history web-book. Audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and text and still images.

Fashion history, modern and historical, as covered in the Fashion Museum and in the Victoria and Albert.