Three Best Online Art Collections/Exhibits

One day, I saw my neighbor made a small toy house with his COVID self-test kits. Dumbfounded by his creativity, I began to explore art online. If you would also like to get art inspirations, here are three virtual art collections you can enjoy online from your home.

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Met Museum Collection Online

From The Death Of Socrates to Monet’s Bridge Over A Pond Of Water Lilies, you can browse more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art online.

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Online

Peek into Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom, Georges Seurat”s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. Explore their  thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection.

Google Arts & Culture

No one can resist the interactive art experience from over 2000 leading museums and archives. Through the Virtual Gallery Tour, you can virtually ‘walk through’ the galleries of each partner cultural organization, using the same controls as Google Street View or by clicking on the gallery’s floor plan.

To Explore More

Our librarians prepared some research guides to help you get started. For example, finding images, browse IMA resources, etc.