ARH 140: Introduction to Global Art

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture
through the Museum’s collection.

Over 120,000 slides and digital images of architecture, urbanism, and the built environment in the Islamic world. Spans a 30-year period and documents historic and contemporary sites in the Islamic world, often depicting sites not found in any published resource.

Perhaps the greatest Australian art museum with really fine collection online in the area of Australian and Asian art.

Art and architecture image collections, mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India, and Cambodia.

The British Museum is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence.

One of the world’s most important collections of Asian art, with more than forty thousand objects—and counting—dating from the Neolithic period to today.

Search the online image collection of the greatest of French museums, as well as some other French collections as well.

The Museum of Islamic Art represents Islamic art from three continents over 1,400 years.

Initially focused on the traditional arts of sub-Saharan Africa, NMAfA broadened its collecting scope and programs to include both modern and contemporary artworks, distinguishing itself as the first museum in the United States to include a sustained focus on modern and contemporary African art in its mission.

In partnership with Native peoples and their allies, the National Museum of the American Indian fosters a richer shared human experience through a more informed understanding of Native peoples.

The Africa Museum is a center for knowledge and resources on Africa, in particular Central Africa, in an historical, contemporary, and global context. The museum is a place of memory on the colonial past and strives to be a dynamic platform for exchanges and dialogues between cultures and generations.

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex.

The gallery of high-resolution artwork images from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.