Paintings and Artists
Galleries and Museums
Architecture and Buildings
Other Interesting Art Sites
Crafts and Design & Technology
 

Paintings and Artists
 

Art Edventures
ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
Art Unframed
A massive Art History resource with access to more than 23,000 paintings by over 2,000 artists. simply laid out and easy to navigate.
Impressionism
Teachers' guide to teaching about impressionism and a take "guided tour through turn of the century France and explore the interesting concepts that defined the Impressionism art movement"
Insideart
Do you like those adventure books where you read the page and then make a choice at the end of the page about where you go next? You know the ones I mean? Well this is the same! An excellent adventure to get you looking at paintings. You'll love it!
Library of Art History
They say,"The History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History. The site is sponsored by CHArt, the Computers and History of Art Group. We aim to list sites relevant both to people with a general interest in the subject and to students and scholars of Art History."
Medieval Book of Hours of Le Duc de Berry
Wonderful reproductions of this famous diary which was made in the 1300s. The pictures show how poor and rich people of the time passed their daily lives in the different months of the year.
Monet
A bilingual (French / English) site dedicated to the works of the first Impressionist. Images are there but very slow to load.
Rembrandt
Basic information about Rembrandt and a lot of pictures to view and download.
Van Gogh Information Gallery
Wow! If you want to find out anything about the man and his work (including recent news and developments) this is the site for you. There are graphics, too, for every one of his Gogh's 876 paintings (as well as an additional 1,326 graphics on the drawings, letter sketches and watercolours).
World Wide Arts Resources
A wonderfully rich site, which describes itself as "The largest gateway to the arts in the world" and having used it we're inclined to believe it!
 

Galleries and Museums 
  

EncycloZine Gallery of Famous Art
A small collection of famous images. Very useful! Includes Picasso's Guitar , Whistler's Mother, Rembrant's self portrait, Turner's Burning of the Houses of Parliament, Mona Lisa as well as works by Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Rodin, Escher, Renoir and Dali.
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
A small, but informative site about this major provincial museum. The Fitzwilliam has an excellent education department and their Egyptian gallery is a great place to take KS2 children.
The Hayward Gallery, London
Information about major touring exhibitions of modern art and media. Regularly updated.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York
Superb site. Huge number of online images together with information about them. You can search for artists by name and can even make your own online museum collection. The home page features a different ArtiFact each day.
Museums Around the United Kingdom
Links to all the museums in the United Kingdom - at least all those that have websites. Find out where to go and what to see. A must for planning school visits. Regularly updated.
The National Gallery, London
Information about Britain's national art collection. You can visit parts of the gallery on-line and view paintings from the collection. They have a superb education department, with good information on-line.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
Searchable for information about pictures and artists. Lots of  images from the collection can be viewed.
The National Portrait Gallery, London
Visit this fascinating gallery and see painted portraits of famous people. Find out what all those historical characters really looked like! Again, excellent educational facilities.
The National Portrait Gallery, Washington
This is the website of America's equivalent of our NPG.
The Prado Museum
Visit the museum and see good quality images of some of their collection.
The Tate Gallery, London
A slick website with links to the Tate's other sites around the country, including St Ives and Liverpool. It has a full catalogue of works in the collection, but disappointingly few illustrations. The site now also has pages and samples  from the new Tate Modern.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The V&A is the world's largest museum of decorative arts. This is a flashy and complex site which isn't easy to navigate - but it's worth sticking at it. By using the tours under the explore option you can view a selection of objects from the various galleries.
WebMuseum, Paris
Lists of painters and movements. Lots of background information and lots of images for each page.
William Morris Gallery
An interesting site about this popular Victorian designer. It has a page for children and an on-line exhibition of Morris' works. You can even download Morris wallpaper designs for your computer desktop!
 

Architecture and Buildings
   

Architecture in Education
AIE is a program of American "Foundation for Architecture". The ethos behind this organisation is the belief that students who learn how cities are made, how design affects human behavior, how the natural and built worlds affect each other, and how individuals can influence their environments will become competent leaders of tomorrow's world.
Great Buildings of the World
This is an excellent site. More than 750 great buildings from around the world and across history are illustrated. Information is also given about the architects.
The Seven Wonders of the World
Information and pictures about the official 7 wonders and about other great ancient buildings.
 

Other Interesting Art Sites
   

Artcyclopedia
A huge site with a featured museum page and links to other museums worldwide. Search the database of over 6,000 artists' names. Choose an artist and it will give you links to the museums or galleries where the artists's work can be found and sites where illustrations and information can be found. Excellent.
Art Teacher on the Net
An award winning American site aimed at children, teachers and parents. (The art treacher is called Valerie Colston). The site is colourful and eyecatching and is packed with ideas for artistic projects and activities as well as other art related information.
Amazing Picture Machine
This search engine lets you find pictures for just about every occasion.
A Pintura, Art Detective
An interactive detective adventure to help children from KS2 upwards learn about art and artists.The player has to identify a mystery work of art by comparing it to the work of 6 well known artists.
ArtsConnectEd
Site of the Minneapolis Institute of arts. Includes indexes of lesson plans and activities and links to other sites with similar resources.
The Bayeux Tapestry
The entire tapestry illustrated in 35 sections, with a brief description of each. Part of the Medieval History site.
The Collage Portal
An image database containing over 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery in London.
Hampshire Artweb
This is a really useful site, part of Hampshire LEAs website. There is Curriculum Support, Curriculum Guidance, Art & Design News and Links to Galleries and Museums. An excellent resource.
Inside Art
An interactive adventure that takes you for a close look at of one of Van Gogh's paintings. You are visiting a museum when suddenly you are sucked inside the painting! To get out you must fine out more about the picture and the artist.
A Lifetime of Color
Although this is a commercial site (belonging to an American company called Sandford) there are lots of ideas for art activities and techniques here.
Regional Arts Pages
A useful site for teachers to find out what is going on locally in the arts.
Schoolart
A growing resource of over 600 pages of art lessons, projects and ideas. You can subscribe to the full site for £10.00 per year, but there are a number of free resources which you can try out.
Warner Brothers
Find out about animations with your favourite Looney Tunes characters. Animation 101 tells the story of animation from start to finish.
 

Crafts and Design & Technology
   

British Nutrition Foundation
Food and nutrition information. A useful site for teachers with access to sample primary school projects.
The Childrens' Museum of Indianapolis
A growing collection of on-line activities from this wonderful museum. Learn how to make moving dinosaurs and join in the arts workshop.
Crafts for Kids
Enchanted Learning's crafts page. Masses of ideas and projects for things to make.
How Stuff Works
Engines, electronics, computers, your body - find out how they all work!
The Knitting and Crochet Guild
You might be interested in introducing your pupils to these traditional skills. This site can help put you in touch with local interest groups.
World of Puppets
Go on a world tour and find out about puppets the world over - then make your own.
Zelda's Zany Zoo
Design a new animal habitat for a local zoo. Visit lots of websites on the way to gather information.