Art Museums
Art museums are great for finding works of art and artifacts from cultures around the world from antiquity to the present. They often have short videos on their sites and other resources to help you and your students contextualize the art and artifacts. Search within them for topics specific to your unit of study in ELA, social studies, or the integrated arts.
Note: This is not intended to be comprehensive. Please let us know if you have an art museum to recommend!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
The Currier Museum, Manchester, NH
The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Washington DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Smithsonian, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Getty Center, Los Angeles & Malibu, CA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The British Museum, London, England
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
Museu Nacional de’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain