AST 310 Intro to Museum Studies: Websites

The American Alliance of Museums' mission is to champion museums and nurture excellence in partnership with our members and allies.

Browse a curated selection of art events from around the world.

The Barnes Foundation owns more than 4,000 objects, including over 900 paintings, estimated to be worth about $25 billion.

Four internal networks for Members. Subjects are Archaeological Open-Air Museums, Experimental Archaeology, Ancient Technology and Interpretation.

The Institute of Museum Ethics promotes accountability, responsibility, and sustainability in museums.

The Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies (JCMS) has an overall focus on the care and exhibition of collection items. The scope thus includes conservation science, artifact studies, restoration, museum studies, environment studies, collection management and curation.

News about Museums, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Use the Search collections link to search for particular works of art by Classification. Suggestion for prehistoric works: choose pre-Columbian Classification. For later works choose Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings.

Use the Advanced Search option, where you can enter the time period. For example, late bronze, iron age, Roman period.

The Museum Questions blog is dedicated to pondering museums, their role in our world, and how museum and arts professionals can better meet current challenges in a thoughtful, reflective way.