A to Z Museums in Europe

Austria

Grafische Sammlung Albertina. Art museum founded in 1773. (In German, English and Italian.)on-line galleries and exhibits. (In English and German).

Belgium

Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve, Université catholique de Louvain. See also ÉOLE database on Belgian cultural heritage. (In French, also English , Dutch and German.)

Czeck Republic

Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.

National Museum, Prague.

National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.

Galleries contacts and addresses.

Prague. See also Museums and Galleries Image Tour.

Denmark

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting. (In English and Danish.)

National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. (Also in Danish.) See also related museums.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Archeological (especially Egyptian) artefacts, Impressionist and other paintings. (Some information in English.)

Skive Art Museum. (Mainly Danish, some information in Dutch, English and German.)

Finland

Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvskyl. Specializes in architecture.

Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.)

Helsinki City Art Museum. Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city. (InEnglish, Finnish and Swedish.)

The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)

Finnish museums information including a alphabetical list of museums (also ordered by location and by type) from the Finnish Museums Association. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)

Nordic museum links (Finland).

France

Château de Versailles, near Paris. (In French and English.) Includes The Carriage Museum.

The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon.

Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies. (In French and English.)

Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. (Also in French.)

The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world.

Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)

Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and English.)

Textile Museum of Lyon. (In French.)

Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)

Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.

Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

Germany

Kunstmuseum, Bonn. German art since 1945.

Museums in Germany. (In German.)

Museumslandschaft museums list. (In German.)

Bavaria museums. (In German.)

Hamburg museums. (In German.)

Italy

Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia. Art collection of Amedeo Lia and his family, founded in 1995. (Also in Italian and German.)

CeSMAP Study Centre and Prehistoric Art Museum, Pinerolo. (Also in Italian.)

Keat-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari. (In Italian.)

Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Includes the Farnese picture collection. (Also in Italian.)

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza. Ceramics. (In Italian.)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Modern art. An outpost of the Guggenheim Museum,

Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and anindex of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. (Also in Italian.) See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).

The Virtual Museum of Pisa Shockwave for multimedia. (In Italian and English.)

Musei e Gallerie Statali, Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze. Florentine museum information, including database access, from Florence. (In Italian.)

Netherlands

7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.

Centraal Museum Utrecht. The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands, including historical works of art and the Rietveld Schrder house (1924). (Mainly in Dutch.)

Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.

aags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Art collection including Mondrian and Escher. (In Dutch.)

Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven. Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923). (Also in Dutch.)

Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University. Archectural Guide and Galleryincluding Museums.

Limburgs Museum, Limburg. Includes multimedia using RealAudio. (In Dutch.)

Museon, The Hague. Science and natural history: geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology physics and technology, ethnology. (In English and Dutch.)

Natural History Museum, Maastricht. Includes a virtual tour and kid's museum with a quiz. (InEnglish and Dutch.)

Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg. Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design. (In English and Dutch.)

Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. (In English and Dutch.)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Not yet on-line.)

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country. Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave. (In English and Dutch.)

University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art. (English and Dutch.)

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Amsterdam museums.

Eindhoven museums. (Dutch and some English.)

Museums in the Netherlands, Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT). Succinct information, comprehensive coverage.

Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums. See English information including a directory of all museums. An excellent, comprehensive resource.

De Museumserver. Dutch museums on the Internet. (Mostly Dutch, some English.) Good, but slowed by use of Java.

Musea in Nederland. Links sorted by name, type and location. (In Dutch only.)

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Norway

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Museums in alphabetical order, by region, etc., from Museumsnet Norway. Comprehensive list, including hyperlinks where available. (In Norwegian, English, French and German soon.)

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Spain

Joan Miró Foundation , Barcelona, Spain

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Switzerland

Fotomuseum, Winterthur. Photography. (In German.)

Kunstmuseum Luzern. Museum of Fine Arts, Lucerne. (Also in German.)

Musée de la Main, Lausanne. (In French.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Basel. Part of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, the oldest public museum of the world! (In English and German.)

World Art Treasures, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne and EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Presents a number of developing on-line exhibits of art from Egypt, China, Italy, etc. (Also in French.)

Arte 24: Art, Culture and Museums. (In German, English and French.)

Basel museums. (In German and English.)

Geneva museums. (Mainly in French.)

Lausanne museums. (In French.)

Art museums.

U.K.

An Lanntair, an art center of the Western Isles of Scotland.

The Ashmolean at Oxford

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

MuseumNet, listings of UK museums.

National Galleries of Scotland

National Gallery, London

National Museum of Ireland

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

National Museums of Scotland

Sir John Soane's Museum

Tate Gallery

Victoria and Albert, London. Specializes in decorative arts.

 

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