Links

 National Portrait Gallery (gb) www.npg.org.uk
A unique collection of original portraits from British history and culture, in London (Great Britain). As many as 100,000 works are online, most of them illustrated, with several search options.

 National Portrait Gallery (usa) www.npg.si.edu
Another unique collection of original portraits, now from American history and culture, in Washington dc (usa). Collection highlights, a web database containing more than 80,000 portraits, and online exhibitions.

 The State Hermitage Museum www.hermitagemuseum.org
Art and treasures, in St. Petersburg (Russia). A great share of the collection is available online, with many images.

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org
Art and treasures, in New York (usa). About 33,000 objects from the collection are viewable online. The exhibitions get much attention too.

 Musée du Louvre www.louvre.fr
Art and treasures, in Paris (France). The virtual tours are nice and the search options of the Atlas database are all right.

 The British Museum www.britishmuseum.org
Art and treasures, in London (Great Britain). Many highlights, online tours, and much background information.

 Museum of Fine Arts www.mfa.org
Art and treasures, in Boston (usa). Simple and easy navigation through over 340,000 works online.

 Kunsthistorisches Museum www.khm.at
Art and treasures, in Vienna (Austria). Many objects from the various collections are available online, with images.

 Camera degli Sposi www.cameradeglisposi.it
The wedding room of the Palazzo Ducale, in Mantova (Italy). Lots of images and explanations concerning the frescos by Andrea Mantegna.

 Historiska Museet www.historiska.se
Art and treasures, in Stockholm (Sweden). All valuable objects are viewable online, with a fair amount of background information and a very extensive database.

 Egyptian Museum www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg
Art and treasures, in Cairo (Egypt). Limited search options, but the online objects are explained nicely.

 Musei Capitolini www.museicapitolini.org
Art and treasures, in Rome (Italy). Brief information and photo galleries containing masterpieces and imperial portraits.

 Musei Vaticani mv.vatican.va/2_IT/pages/MV_Home.html
Art and treasures, in Rome (Italy). Several virtual tours and selected objects from the collections.

 World Museum Liverpool www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml
Art and treasures, in Liverpool (Great Britain). Though there's much to discover here, only few examples from the collections are displayed online.

 Kulturhistorisk Museum www.khm.uio.no
Art and treasures, in Oslo (Norway). Mainly practical information, some backgrounds, and a few examples from the collections.

 Hunan Provincial Museum www.hnmuseum.com
Art and treasures, in Changsha (China). Some highlights from the collection presented very visually.

 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin www.smb.spk-berlin.de
The national museums at Berlin (Germany). Practical information and facts from museum history.

 Museo di Storia Naturale www.msn.unifi.it
Objects from nature and ethnological artefacts from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, in Florence (Italy). Basic information and examples from the collections.

 Palazzo Medici–Ricardi www.palazzo-medici.it
Art and treasures, in Florence (Italy). Brief explanations and photo galleries.

 Allard Pierson Museum www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl
Objects from Antiquity, in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Introductions to the concerned eras and an image database.

 Musée Lapidaire www.musee-lapidaire.org
Archaeological objects, in Avignon (France). General information and a few photo galleries.

 Château de Chantilly www.chateaudechantilly.com
Home of the Musée Condé, with art and treasures, in Chantilly (France). Exuberant design, modest content.

 Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux www.tapisserie-bayeux.fr
Home of the Tapestry, in Bayeux (France).

 Naturhistorisches Museum Wien www.nhm-wien.ac.at
Objects from nature and prehistory, in Vienna (Austria).

 Kongernes Jelling www.kongernesjelling.dk
The visitor centre of the royal monuments at Jelling (Denmark).

 Museo Archeologico Nazionale de Napoli www.archeona.arti.beniculturali.it/sanc-it/mann/home.html
Archaeological objects, in Naples (Italy).

 The British Library www.bl.uk
The national library of Great Britain, in London. Various digital catalogues — one especially for illuminated manuscripts — a few online exhibitions and accessible treasures. Abundantly provided with images.

 Bibliothèque Nationale de France www.bnf.fr
The national library of France, in Paris. Interesting online exhibitions and an extensive, searchable image database.

 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek www.onb.ac.at
The national library of Austria, in Vienna. Informative content.

 Biblioteca Nacional de España www.bne.es
The national library of Spain, in Madrid. Information about the library and several catalogues.

 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana bav.vatican.va
The library of the Vatican, in Rome (Italy). Some examples from the collections of manuscripts are available online. Exuberant design.

 Utrechtse Universiteitsbibliotheek www.library.uu.nl
The library of the Universiteit Utrecht (the Netherlands). The Virtuele Vitrine contains a selection from the collections.

 Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen www.stiftsbibliothek.ch
The library of the convent of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Examples of the manuscripts are available online, with a single image and limited information.

 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana www.bml.firenze.sbn.it
A collection containing nearly 11,000 manuscripts, in Florence (Italy). The collections are explained, but they aren't available online.

 Médiathèque d'Epernay mediatheque.epernay.fr
The multimedia centre of Epernay (France). Some nice comments and images concerning the special collections.

 Bodleian Library www.bodley.ox.ac.uk
The main research library of the University of Oxford (Great Britain).

 St. Paul im Lavanttal www.stift-stpaul.at
The convent St. Paul im Lavanttal (Austria), with a library and several treasures of art.

 Trinity College Library www.tcd.ie/Library
The library of Trinity College, University of Dublin (Ireland).

 Durham Cathedral Library www.dur.ac.uk/cathedral.library
The library of Durham Cathedral (Great Britain).

 Stofnun Árna Magnússonar www.arnastofnun.is
A cultural institute with a collection of manuscripts, in Reykjavík (Iceland).

 Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/7gf.asp
The library of the French parliament, in Paris (France).

 Centre Historique des Archives Nationales www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan
The history department of the national archives of France, in Paris.

 Archivio Capitolare www.tsc4.com/archiviocapitolaremo
The archive of the Modena cathedral (Italy).

 Portrait Detectives www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/portraits
An informative and entertaining tour where some portraits of the Walker in Liverpool (Great Britain) are investigated. Children are the main target group of these webpages, but everyone can learn something about portraiture here.

 Internet Medieval Source Book www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
A comprehensive collection of source texts from the European Middle Ages, edited by Paul Halsall. Very elaborate and worthy content. The webpages are hosted by the Fordham University in New York (usa).

 Codices Electronici Sangallenses www.cesg.unifr.ch
The virtual version of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, in collaboration with the Universität Freiburg (Switzerland). Many complete descriptions and fabulous digital facsimiles from the manuscript collection of St. Gallen.

 Perseus Digital Library www.perseus.tufts.edu
A very extensive, though less conveniently arranged collection of texts and images from selected periods in history, supervised by Gregory Crane and hosted by Tufts University in Medford (usa).

 The Latin Library www.thelatinlibrary.com
A collection of source texts in Latin, maintained with care by William (Bill) L. Carey.

 Compendium of Muslim Texts www.usc.edu/dept/MSA
Fundamentals, topics, and tools of Islam, compiled and maintained by the Muslim Students Association at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (usa).

 Looks Are Deceiving commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/admiral.html
An online version of an article by Paul Martin Lester about some portraits of Christopher Columbus.