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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Are the paintings in the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, UK, worth a visit? Here's my opinion.

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington is America's showcase of portraiture, with some 57,000 square feet of exhibition space.

Visitor's Guide to the National Gallery in London
This museum in central London houses one of the world's largest collections of paintings of Western European paintings from 1250 to 1900.

National Portrait Gallery, London
A museum, founded in 1856, devoted entirely to portraits of famous British men and women, from royalty to celebrities to scientists. You can view the collection by sitter, artist, or type of portrait. Although it's right next to the National Gallery, many visitors miss out on this fascinating collection.

Tate Galleries -- Tate Modern, Britain, St Ives, Liverpool
The four Tate galleries in the UK - Tate Britain (British art from 1500 to today) and Tate Modern in London plus in St Ives, and Liverpool (the largest modern-art museum in the UK outside London). Includes a searchable database to find the specific artists and works.

The British Museum, London
There is nothing British about the British Museum, rather it showcases artifacts collected from cultures across the world.

The Wallace Collection, London
View the paintings, drawings, and watercolours in the Wallace Collection, a private collection bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace in 1897.

Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Britain's national museum of design and art, which holds regular exhibitions to supplement its permanent collection.

Museum of Modern Art, New York
See highlights from MoMa's present and past exhibitions of its vast collection of paintings and sculptures.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Get a feel for this vast museum's collections from all over the world - African, Asian, European, Greek and Roman, Oceania - and all periods in our history.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Founded in 1930, the Whitney showcases contemporary art as well as having a permanent collection.

National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Explore a small selection from the museum's painting, decorative arts, sculpture, and works on paper collections.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC is home to more than 37,500 works of American art, “reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious diversity.”

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Take a look at the museum's permanent, current, and past exhibitions, which includes contemporary African art.

Guggenheim Museums
Check out the Guggenheim art museums in New York, Las Vegas, Bilbao (Spain), Venice, and Berlin. The museum buildings are works of art in their own right.

Legion of Honor Museum, San Fransisco
This museum overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge has an art collection spanning 4,000 years of ancient and European art.

De Young Museum, San Francisco
This museum, in the Golden Gate Park, houses art from the Americas, Africa, Oceania, as well as textile art.

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
View the museum's collections of Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings and drawings, sculpture, and decorative art, as well as its special exhibitions and find out what its latest acquisitions are.

Fleischer Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona
This museum houses primarily American Impressionism, California School, and Russian and Soviet Realism tempered by Impressionism paintings.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Only a tiny selection of the museum's 3,000 works of art can be viewed on line. All its paintings are from after the Second World War (1945).

Andy Warhol Museum
A museum in Pittsburgh dedicated to one of the most influential 20th-century painters. Not much to see on-line, unless you're browsing the posters in the shop.

Painting Galleries at the Louvre, Paris
Take a virtual tour of the painting galleries of the Louvre, in Paris.

Musee d'Orsay, Paris
A great museum in Paris showcasing European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and decorative art from 1848 to 1914.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
If you enjoy Van Gogh's paintings but can't get to the capital of the Netherlands, this online museum is the next-best thing.

Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
As you'd expect, the Prado houses the world's best collection of Spanish art. Each month a new painting from the museum's collection is analysed in depth.

Finnish National Gallery
The Finnish National Gallery is housed in three collections, the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, the Ateneum Art Museum, and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. (Some of the site is not in English.)

Museums at the Vatican
View the collections of the Vatican museums online or take a number of virtual tours, including one of the Sistine Chapel

Online Guide to Museums in Europe
The place to go if you want to find out what art museums and galleries there are in a particular country or city in Europe, and what current exhibitions are on.