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Art in General

Internet Resources

World Wide Arts Resources - an American resource that claims to be "the largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios"

RSA: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce Information about the Society's projects, and podcasts of lectures.

Artcyclopedia Their stated mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet

Artlex: art dictionary "for artists, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education ... definitions of more than 2,800 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web".

Axis "Axis is a national contemporary visual arts service providing information about artists and makers living/working in Britain to a national and international audience. It is the largest interactive database of contemporary British art on the Internet."

Iniva The website of the Institute of International Visual Arts. "Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects, designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible public."

Art Guide "The art lover's guide to Britain and Ireland". Includes a useful list of museums and galleries. You can also search geographically or by artist, and there is a list of forthcoming events.

Museums and heritage interpretation

Virtual Library museums pages -a distributed directory of on-line museums Cornucopia: discoving UK collections

Cornucopia: Discovering UK Collections - an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries.

24 hour museum UK gateway to museums, galleries and heritage attractions. Includes educational sections, children's museum pages with interactive exhibits, recruitment pages, a magazine and an extensive Museum Finder

National Museums of Scotland News and events, details of the collections