Art History Student Resources

• Dr. Karen Carter, Professor and Art History Program Chair
• Anne Norcross, Professor and Coordinator of the Visual Resource Collection
  

• KCAD Writing Center

The following research databases are accessible via the KCAD Library:

• Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO)
• ArtStor
• Biography In Context (Gale)
• JSTOR
• WorldCat (OCLC)

Notable Museums the United States

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - impressive collection of art from Egypt, the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome & beyond.
• Guggenheim Museum, NYC - collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art. 
• Museum of Modern Art, NYC - art, architecture, and design images in the Museum of Modern Art collection. 
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA - “The Villa” section of the museum is a reconstruction of an ancient Roman villa from Herculaneum. Holds a nice collection of antiquities.
• National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. - features more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. - home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world.
• National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. - only national museum in the US focused on the collection, exhibition, conservation, and study of the arts of Africa. 
• National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C. - only national museum focused entirely on documenting African American life, history, and culture. 
• National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. - over 40,000 objects dating from the Neolithic period to today and spanning the ancient Near East to China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Islamic world. 
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 147,000 objects.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art - collection comprises eight curatorial departments: American Art; Contemporary Art; Costume & Textiles; East Asian Art; European Decorative Arts and Sculpture; European Painting; Prints, Drawings & Photographs; and South Asian Art.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - another very good collection of Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek & Roman art.
• The Brooklyn Museum, NYC - After the Met, the best collection of Egyptian art in the United States.
  
  
  

 Notable Museums Outside the United States

• The Louvre, Paris - home of the “Venus de Milo,” “Winged Victory,” and many other works of art, both ancient and modern.
• The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia - a handsome collection in a beautiful building.
• The British Museum, London - renowned for its collection of ancient art, including the majority of the sculpture from the Parthenon.
• The Vatican Museums, Rome - not just for the Sistine Chapel, enormous collection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art.
• Tate, Britain -  British art from 1500 to the present day and nearly 70,000 international modern and contemporary artworks
• The National Gallery, London - massive collection covering 700 years of painting.
• Art Project (powered by Google) - explores museums from around the world. You can view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create adn share your own collection of masterpieces.

 

Notable Design-Focused Museums

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London - works from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• Cooper Hewitt, Washington D.C. - expansive collection covering over 30 centuries of design from all around the world. 
• Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris - Les Arts Décoratifs is a private organization governed by the law of 1901 on not-for-profit associations and recognized as being in the public interest. It originated in 1882, in the wake of the Universal Exhibitions, when a group of collectors banded together with the idea of promoting the applied arts and developing links between industry and culture, design and production.
• Design Museum, London - discover information about designers, architects, and more through the design library at the Design Museum in London.

 

Museums Within Driving Distance of KCAD

• Grand Rapids Art Museum
• Grand Rapids Public Museum
• Grand Rapids African American Museum
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabillia, Big Rapids
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• University of Michigan Museum of Art
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Cranbrook Art Museum
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
• The Art Institute of Chicago 
• Museum of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• American Alliance of Museums
• American Association of Museums
• American Institute for Conservation
• College Art Association
• Midwest Art History Society

• KCAD Art History Careers Info Page
• Career Alternatives for Art Historians
• Higher Ed Jobs
• Handshake (log in to MyFSU and click on the Handshake icon at the top, right side of the page)