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California
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The American Museum of Beat Art (AMBA) 
 The American Museum of Beat Art in Pasadena, California celebrates the Beatniks, whose "world of bohemian non-conformity and cultural non-compliance" paved the way for the sixties and subsequent alternative cultural movements. The Web site highlights items from the museum's collection of works and artifacts of Beat Generation artists, as well as earlier twentieth century artists who influenced Beat writers, poets, and visual artists. Featured are images, biographies, and archival written matter, as well as links to other resources on Beat culture on the World Wide Web. http://www.beatmuseum.org/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Museums by Place: United States, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Oct 18, 2004 Architecture of the Getty Center
Features 700 photographs (low, medium, and high resolution) of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, designed by architects Richard Meier and Michael Palladino. Visitors can select locations within the museum on a clickable map or browse in-depth images grouped by architectural design or detail, such as the travertine, museum courtyard, tramway, signage, fountains and rocks, and trees and landscaping. http://academic.reed.edu/getty/ Topics: Last updated Jan 28, 2004 Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The site for "one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art." The site features events, hours, programs, resources for teachers, and examples from the permanent collection. http://www.asianart.org/ Topics: Art by Region, Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Mar 7, 2006 Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley: Art Exhibitions
Nearly 400 essays "on selected art exhibitions from 1995 to the present, plus a complete history of over 200 MATRIX [Program for Contemporary Art] exhibitions, covering more than 25 years." Browse by year or search by keyword, exhibition title, or artist. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/art Topics: Museums, Schools of Art Last updated Apr 4, 2007 Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley: Film Programs
Nearly 20,000 "critical and historical texts about films shown at PFA from 1979 to the present, many ... constituting unique documentation of rare films." Search by keyword, title, date of film, credits, director, or description. http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/film Topics: Film, Movies, & Video Last updated Apr 4, 2007 Berkeley Natural History Museums (BNHM)
Website for this consortium of six member museums and eight field stations associated with the University of California, Berkeley, including the Essig Museum of Entomology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and Central Sierra Snow Laboratory. Features links to individual member sites, and details about BNHM projects such as digitizing museum specimens and "Exploring California Biodiversity," which provides urban children an opportunity to learn about the natural environment. Also includes news and a calendar of events. http://bnhm.berkeley.edu Topics: Museums Last updated Jul 25, 2006 Berkeley Natural History Museums: Search Specimens in Our Collections
Database for specimens held by six natural history museums at the University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University and Jepson Herbaria, Essig Museum of Entomology, Museum of Paleontology, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and UC Botanical Garden. Individual entries include scientific and common names, taxonomy, and collection date and location. Some items include photos. Browsable, or searchable by many factors such a geography, taxonomy, collector, and geologic time. http://bnhm.berkeley.edu/query/ Topics: Museums Last updated Jul 27, 2006 Contemporary Jewish Museum
Website for this museum that opened in San Francisco in June 2008 in a new Daniel Libeskind-designed building (which incorporates an "adaptive reuse of the landmark Jessie Street Power Substation, designed by Willis Polk in 1907"). Includes material about exhibits and photos and audio clips about the building. http://www.thecjm.org/ Topics: Judaism Last updated Jun 18, 2008 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Web site for the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Includes the Thinker ImageBase with over 82,000 images (over 12,000 artists) from the collections of the two museums. http://www.famsf.org/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Dec 12, 2007 Getty Center
"The Getty Center is the new home of the organizations of the J. Paul Getty Trust--the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, the Getty Information Institute, and the Getty Grant Program." On these pages, you'll find out how to get to the impressive new L.A. museum and what you will see once there. http://www.getty.edu/ Topics: Museums by Place: United States Last updated Jul 14, 2006 The ImageBase
A "searchable image and text database of [tens of thousands of] objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor)." Entries include biographical information on the artist, when applicable. http://www.famsf.org/fam/about/imagebase/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Mar 27, 2008 Images and Ideas: The Collection in Focus at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
A survey of the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, featuring over 25 images of paintings, photographs, and sculpture, from the 1600s through the 1980s. Browsable topics include iconic painting, Renaissance figures, and American paintings. Searchable by title, date, and media. From the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf48700304 Topics: Arts and Humanities, Museums Last updated Oct 6, 2009 The Irvine Museum
"The Irvine Museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of California art of the Impressionist Period (1890 - 1930)." This site provides extensive information on current exhibits; a calendar of events; a Featured Artists area with online, annotated exhibits of selected works of a few artists; and, in the education section, a page for Learning About Color . http://www.irvinemuseum.org/ Topics: Schools of Art Last updated May 19, 2002 LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
More than 20,000 digitized images from LACMA's permanent collection are available at this Web site. Searchable and browsable in categories that include costume and textiles, Islamic art, Japanese art, South and Southeast Asian art, photography. Storeroom Treasures features objects that aren't often displayed in the galleries; it includes images and sculptures of demons, dragons, jewelry, lions, masks, monkeys, the moon, and netsuke. There is also visitor and other information about the museum. http://www.lacma.org/ Topics: Museums Last updated Aug 29, 2002 Miottel Museum
Website for the private Berkeley, California, museum that features historic maritime artifacts and souvenirs associated with the S.S. Normandie and other ocean liners, vintage aviation memorabilia, and travel posters. The site features an overview of collections with selected illustrations, and images of museum collections and of an exhibit at the San Francisco International Airport. http://www.miottelcollection.com/ Topics: Museums Last updated Jul 23, 2008 MOCA: The Museum of Contemporary Art
Site of a Los Angeles art museum "committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of work produced since 1940 in all media." Contains images from the permanent collection, browsable by artist, classification (painting, photography, sculpture), and decade. Also includes information on exhibitions, events, and educational programs. http://www.moca-la.org/ Topics: Museums, Schools of Art Last updated Mar 26, 2007 MoPA: The Museum of Photographic Arts
"MoPA is located in beautiful Balboa Park near downtown San Diego [California]." Its site includes a schedule of exhibitions, program information, history of the museum, and images from the permanent collection and several exhibits. http://www.mopa.org/ Topics: Photography Last updated May 5, 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Information about exhibits, permanent collections, education and public programs, and membership and special events. In English and Spanish. http://www.mcasd.org/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Mar 21, 2006 Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)
Site of a museum in Long Beach, Calif., dedicated to "contemporary Latin American art (created by artists who have lived or worked in Latin America since World War II)." Provides information about the museum's history, exhibits, events, and more. http://www.molaa.org/ Topics: Art by Region, Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated May 14, 2005 Museum of the American West
This Los Angeles museum is "devoted to preserving and interpreting the rich history and traditions of the American West." Online exhibits include cowboy skills and crafts, art and artists, Jewish life, Chinese immigrants, the Ortega family, and homesteading. Formerly the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, the site also provides a biography of Gene Autry and his Cowboy Code. http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/ Topics: Communities & Groups, Notable People, United States History Last updated Apr 27, 2005 Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC)
A browsable and searchable collection of materials from "archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California." Contains collections from institutions, including the Oakland Museum of CA, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley Art Museum, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, Japanese American National Museum, and the UCR/California Museum of Photography. From the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/ Topics: Last updated May 5, 2005 Online Archive of California (OAC)
"A digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California." Includes a searchable database of finding aids ("detailed descriptions of collections, their intellectual organization and, at varying levels of analysis, of individual items in the collections"). From the California Digital Library. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ Topics: Last updated Aug 12, 2003 Representing America: The Ken Trevey Collection of American Realist Prints
A collection of over 30 prints from the 1930s and 1940s. Browsable by theme: urban dramas, country dreams, women, men in industry, lovers, old boys clubs, leisure, health, and African Americans. Includes background information on the Federal Art Project and prints during the Great Depression, a cultural timeline of the 1930s, and a glossary of printmaking terminology. From the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/trevey/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Schools of Art Last updated May 23, 2004 The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
Site of the "visual arts center" offering "art and film programs, collections and research resources." Contains searchable databases of images of artworks; essays on selected art exhibitions; critical and historical texts about films shown at PFA; and PFA Library book, film and video, and ephemera collections. Includes a calendar of events, information on exhibits and programs, and a brief history of the center. From the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Aug 20, 2003 |
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