The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of…

Since its founding in 1893, the Museum der Kulturen Basel (MKB) has built an extensive network of partners and suppliers, connecting the city of Basel to the wider world. These partners included colonial officers, anthropologists, natural…

The Lilly Library is Indiana University's principal rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library.

The Government Museum of Chennai, or sometimes called the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest…

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art arose from the aspirations of two individuals who likely never met, who had vastly different lives, but who each imagined a public art museum for Kansas City and the surrounding region. Both died more than 100 years…

Round hat with falling brim. by Annette Hug The beginning of the Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich lay in the collection of the Ethnographic Society of Zurich, founded in 1888. The first director, the medical doctor Otto Stoll…

The National Gallery has a significant collection of Amorsolos, including this atypical piece painted in 1945. Defend thy Honor by Fernando C. Amorsolo. Image courtesy of National Heritage Board, Singapore Established in 2015, National Gallery…

The National Art Library is a major reference library, situated in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a museum of decorative arts in London. Being a reference library, the NAL does not circulate its materials—all items must be accessed and consulted…

The Prado Museum (El Museo del Prado)

Model of Guilalo Ship. Donated to Museo Naval by the former Ministry of Overseas, and was delivered to the Naval Museum once the General Exhibition of the Philippine Islands of 1887 ended. **Text from the exhibition catalog for Asia y el Museo…

The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

The museum opened on GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus in 2015 as the new home of The Textile Museum, established in 1925, and the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection, donated to GW in 2011. The museum occupies a custom-built facility and the adjoining…

43597: Philippine Basket, undated. Identifier number 09.1029, courtesy of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, and a gift of the American Museum of Natural History The Philippine Collection at RISD by Cristina Juan*There is…