Modified Library Services at WAM Library: Additional Digital Resources for Art Research

A peer-populated platform for educators who use visual and material culture in their teaching practice. Home to an evolving and collectively authored repository of open educational content, AHTR serves as a collaborative virtual community for art history instructors at all stages of their academic and professional careers. The website supports learning in the classroom, in the museum, and online by blending traditional and technological approaches to pedagogy.

Digital publications

Art Through Time: A Global View, featuring thirteen half-hour programs, a guide, text, and other Web resources, takes a thematic approach to art history and appreciation. Rather than a linear chronology, the materials explore connections in Western and non-Western art, illuminating the breadth, complexity, and beauty of works produced around the world and at different periods of time.

Online research catalogues
Online journals

Digitized material from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
Content includes: photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents

The European equivalent to the DPLA.
Digitized materials from archives, libraries, and museums across Europe.
Millions of items: books, artwork, music, etc.

300+ Free backlist titles

A handful of digital collection catalogues

143,000+ Digitized art history resources (books, pamphlets, photographs, exhibition catalogues)

From The MET, this resource “pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.”

Books, audio, videos, images

53,000+ art books

Books, journals, images, audio, and more

Resources from the state of Massachusetts that are always freely available online and resources that are “free for now” due to Covid-19.

500+ full-text books, published by the MET
Full-text access to the Metropolitan Museum Journal and Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

Over 1 million total digitized books
36,000+ art related books

Free backlist titles, online editions

35,000 digitized books and manuscript collections

An amazing list of resources freely available online from museums around the world. Content includes virtual tours, online exhibits and collections, image portals, and a nice list of other digital libraries and archives.

50+ digital books focusing on French artists from 18th & 19th centuries