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One of London’s most inspiring attractions, the Design Museum is the world’s leading museum of industrial design, fashion and architecture. Concerned as much with the future as the past, our acclaimed exhibition programme captures the excitement and ingenuity of design’s evolution through the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

Ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and India. Culture, history, arts. (Part of the British Museum.)

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Links to many art sites: museums, artists, exhibitions. Brilliant art search engine.

http://www.horniman.ac.uk/

Cultural icons, carvings, anthropology, natural history, musical instruments.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free. The National Gallery’s permanent collection spans the period from about 1250 to 1900 and consists of Western European paintings.

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp

The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women.

http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm

Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day, from the Tudors to the Turner Prize. Tate holds the greatest collection of British art in the world, including works by Blake, Constable, Epstein, Gainsborough, Gilbert and George, Hatoum, Hirst, Hockney, Hodgkin, Hogarth, Moore, Rossetti, Sickert, Spencer, Stubbs and Turner. The gallery is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art, and helps promote interest in British art internationally.

Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern displays the Tate collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, including major works by Dalí, Picasso, Matisse, Rothko and Warhol as well as contemporary work by artists such as Dorothy Cross, Gilbert & George and Susan Hiller.

Also links to the other Tate galleries (Liverpool, St.Ives)

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

The V&A is the greatest museum of applied and decorative arts in the world. Explore the breathtaking permanent collections from the four corners of the globe including fashion and textiles, sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, silver and jewellery, furniture, photography and paintings.

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/

British Museum web site, with links to many artists and their works.

http://www.gaudi2002.bcn.es/

All about Gaudi, with plenty of links to his works. Each small picture has links to many more detailed pictures of the same place. There is also a section devoted to photographs of his work by various famous (in Spain at least!) photographers.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/

Links to many photographers, their work, articles about them and further useful links relating to their life and works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

“The Collection” page has links to pages about: American Decorative Arts; American Paintings and Sculpture; Ancient Near Eastern Art; Arms and Armour; Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas; Asian Art; Cloisters; Costume Institute; Drawings and Prints; Egyptian Art; European Paintings; European Sculpture and Decorative Arts; Greek and Roman Art; Islamic Art; Robert Lehman Collection; Medieval Art; Modern Art; Musical Instruments; Photographs; Antonio Ratti Textile Centre

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/