H. Sonne de Torrens, Visual Resource Libarian, CVMC, ICC, UTM

Museum Studies – Guide to Images
January 2009
H. Sonne de Torrens, Visual Resource Libarian, CVMC, ICC, UTM
Contact: [email protected] or 905-569-4610
University of Toronto Library (UTL) Starting Points…
FIS – Museum Resource Page
http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/content/view/1312/134/
UTL – Subject Research Guides – some topics include image references
http://main.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/library_guides.cfm
Medical Images
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/index.cfm?guide=medicalimages
UTL Digital Collections
http://content.library.utoronto.ca/resources/collections/local-collections
Robarts Reference Library – Subject Research Guides – Museum Studies
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/folder.cfm?guide=museum&folderID=325176
Museums Around the World (listed by Country)
Mother of all Art and Art History Links – Museums, University of Michigan
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/
What image databases are available in the University of Toronto Libraries?
ArtStor
http://library.artstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/library/welcome.html#1
Oxford Art Online (was Grove Art Dictionary)
http://www.oxfordartonline.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca
Index of Christian Art
http://ica.princeton.edu.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
FADIS use also to find installation shots. Do a keyword search using “installation”
Where do I find installation and exhibition imagery?
ArtStor: Select the collection “Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection” (189 images)
http://library.artstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca
ArtStor: Do a keyword search in all collections using the terms “ installation view”
FADIS use also to find installation shots. Do a keyword search using “installation”
Flickr: Use the search terms “exhibition or installation or museum” with a location
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http://www.flickr.com/
Picasa (like Flickr but used more by Europe) Use “installation” plus location
https://www.google.com/
University of Washington Libraries: Digital Collections Use terms “exhibition or installation”
http://content.lib.washington.edu/index.html
YouTube use the search terms “museum plus a location” or “installation plus museum” or “artist
name plus museum/installation/exhibition”
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=installation
Google Images - Search for “museum spaces” or “interior”
http://images.google.ca/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=museum
How do I search MANY museum sites at one time?
Artcyclopedia
www.artcyclopedia.com
WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
Museum of Online Museums
http://www.coudal.com/moom/
Euromuse
http://www.euromuse.net/
International Confederation of Architectual Museums
http://www.icam-web.org/
Public Domain Images – Use for Publishing, Commercial and Research Purposes
Free Public Domain Images
http://www.photographiclibraries.com/index.php?c=10
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/
Commercial Image Sites – For Publishing and Research Purposes
Art Resources
http://www.artres.com/c/htm/Home.aspx
Scala Archives- Art and Culture
http://www.scalarchives.com/web/index.asp
WWW General Image Resources
Smithsonian Institute Research Information System
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http://siriscollections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=African
New York Public Digital Library
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. The online catalog contains almost 145,000
object records and 114,042 images.
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/search.html
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/
Canadian Studies
Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html
African Nova Scotians
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/
Toronto City Archives
http://www.toronto.ca/archives/photographs/index.htm
Provincial, city archives, libraries usually digital collections to check
http://digitalcollections.torontopubliclibrary.ca/webDC/index.jsp
Canadian History on the Web
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwhist/faculty/sneylan/hisgra.html
Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada publishes CyberMuse, which contains over 10,000
images of works in the collection.
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/home_e.jsp
Canadian Heritage Information Center
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html
Artist Information
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Artists UofT Library e-resource.
ULAN, Getty. Free on the web.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/
Canadian Artists
http://daryl.chin.gc.ca.
Canadian Women Artists
http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/
UK and British Artists-VADS
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/NIRP/index.php
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Archives of Women Artists
http://www.nmwa.org/library/archives.asp
Archive of American Art
http://www.aaa.si.edu/
Women Artist Archives National Directory (WAAND)
http://waand.rutgers.edu/
National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/library/archives.asp
Stolen Books and Works of Art & Provenance
Interpol- Stolen Works of Art
http://www.interpol.int/Public/WorkofArt/Default.asp
Nazi-Era Provenance Database
http://www.nepip.org/
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (stolen books)
http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/databases/stolen_search.html
Geographical Locations
Goggle Earth
Panoramio provides aerial shots of locations in the world, great for archaeological digs,
historical sites, locating museums
http://www.panoramio.com/
TGN, Getty.
http://www.getty.edu
Provenance Sites
Getty Provenance Index
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/provenance_index/
Chinese Art- Provenance
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/admn/php/carp/
General Research Sites
Conducting Research at the Getty
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/
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