Art forms

Cross-media

Art history, encyclopedic museums, and cross-disciplinary resources.

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Malaysia · Regional

Penang State Museum

In George Town, Penang's state museum occupies a former school building and covers the island's history, communities, dress, and archival photographs, with rotating local exhibitions.

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penangmuseum.gov.myMalay / English

Malaysia · Regional

Sarawak Museum

Kuching's Sarawak Museum is known for Bornean ethnography, showing indigenous woodcarving, basketry, masks, and natural history specimens across its campuses; its old wing dates from 1891.

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museum.sarawak.gov.myMalay / English

Israel · Regional

Mishkan Museum of Art

The Mishkan Museum of Art in Kibbutz Ein Harod holds Israeli and Jewish art in a converted barn, with changing exhibitions drawn from its own collection.

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museumeinharod.org.ilHebrew / English

Canada · Regional

Royal Ontario Museum

Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum spans natural history and world cultures, with galleries for Indigenous Canadian, East Asian, and European decorative arts alongside touring exhibitions and hands-on family galleries.

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rom.on.caEnglish / French

Brazil · Regional

Museu de Arte do Rio

Museu de Arte do Rio, on Praça Mauá, examines Brazilian art and social history through painting, photography, and urban archives from the colonial era to today.

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museudeartedorio.org.brPortuguese / English

Mexico · Regional

MARCO

MARCO in downtown Monterrey, housed in a former courthouse, focuses on Latin American contemporary painting, photography, and installation, and hosts talks, film screenings, and education programmes.

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marco.org.mxSpanish / English

Mexico · Regional

Museo Universitario del Chopo

Museo Universitario del Chopo at UNAM in Mexico City focuses on contemporary art, alternative music, and youth culture, with experimental, interdisciplinary shows in a historic iron-and-glass pavilion that is itself part of the visit.

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chopo.unam.mxSpanish

Argentina · Regional

MUNTREF

MUNTREF, the museum network of Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, focuses on Argentine contemporary art, photography, and migration memory across several venues.

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museos.untref.edu.arSpanish

Chile · Regional

Museo de Artes Visuales MAVI UC

MAVI UC in Santiago's Lastarria district focuses on Chilean contemporary painting, sculpture, prints, and photography, is part of the Catholic University, and runs talks, workshops, and a conservation laboratory.

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mavi.uc.clSpanish / English

Australia · Regional

Museum of Old and New Art

MONA on Hobart's Moorilla peninsula shows a private contemporary art collection, with installations, sound works, and antiquities in expansive subterranean galleries; entry is ticketed for visitors.

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mona.net.auEnglish

Australia · Regional

Chau Chak Wing Museum

The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney unites archaeology, natural history, and the university art collection, with free displays spanning Mediterranean antiquities and First Nations cultures.

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sydney.edu.auEnglish

New Zealand · Regional

Te Manawa

Te Manawa in Palmerston North combines an art gallery, museum, and science centre under one roof, showing Māori taonga, local social history, and rotating visual art exhibitions.

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temanawa.co.nzEnglish

Egypt · National

Museum of Modern Egyptian Art

The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, inside the Cairo Opera House complex, holds 20th-century Egyptian painting and sculpture arranged by generation, a concise introduction to the country's modern art.

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moc.gov.egArabic / English

Kenya · National

Nairobi National Museum

Nairobi National Museum, run by the National Museums of Kenya, displays archaeology, ethnography, and contemporary art, a starting point for understanding East African human origins and cultures.

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museums.or.keEnglish / Swahili

Kenya · Regional

Karen Blixen Museum

The Karen Blixen Museum in Nairobi's Karen suburb preserves the Out of Africa author's farmhouse, with colonial-era furniture, books, and art set in a garden.

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museums.or.keEnglish / Swahili

Nigeria · Regional

National Museum of Unity, Ibadan

The National Museum of Unity in Ibadan's Alesinloye area displays everyday objects, instruments, pottery, and textiles from Nigeria's ethnic groups, with a strong Yoruba focus.

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museum.ngEnglish

United States · National

Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum's site covers US painting, sculpture, photography, and craft, with collection search, exhibition information, and research resources for students and teachers.

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americanart.si.eduEnglishMay be unstable

United States · Regional

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum in New York focuses on American art from the twentieth century to today, with exhibitions, collection highlights, public programs, and online resources.

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whitney.orgEnglishMay be unstable

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