Visual and Theatre Arts

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Provides images of works exhibited in the museum and information about them.

Online collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art include: American Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Arms and Armor, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Asian Art, The Cloisters, The Costume Institute, Drawings and Prints, Egyptian Art, European Paintings, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Greek and Roman Art, Islamic Art, The Robert Lehman Collection, Medieval Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Musical Instruments, and Photographs.

The National Gallery of Art collection includes Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, Photographs, Decorative Arts, and Architecture.

Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Search over 7.7 million catalog records with 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

"The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than thirty-five thousand costumes and accessories, representing five continents and seven centuries of fashionable dress, regional costumes, and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present."

"The Theatre and Performance collection was founded in the 1920s when a private collector, Gabrielle Enthoven, donated her extensive collection of theatrical designs, memorabilia, books and photographs to the Museum. Since then the collection has continued to grow and has provided a home for many other significant objects and archives. All areas of the live performing arts are represented in the collections, documenting both current practice and the history of the performing arts in the UK."