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Colchester Arts Organisations

Colchester has a rapidly expanding contemporary visual arts scene:

Firstsite is a visual arts organisation pioneering new models of display and education which is to move to a new £15m building in Colchester in 2008. The Department works closely with Firstsite, and several former PhD and MA students are now employed by them as they expand in readiness for the move to the exciting new building.

Colchester Arts Centre is a vibrant centre for music, comedy, theatre and live art.

The University Gallery

The University Gallery acts as the focus for the promotion of the visual arts on campus. Six major exhibitions (including one or more organised by our MA Gallery Studies students) are scheduled each year. Student participation is encouraged at every stage of the programming. Arts on 5's Exhibitions schedule

Details of other arts events on campus may be found on the Arts on 5 website.

Art Links on the web

Museums and galleries

The Baltimore Museum of Art exhibits American and international art, including the Cone Collection of over 40 paintings by Matisse, Gauguin, Picasso, Van Gogh and other European artists.
The British Museum houses a vast collection of world art and artifacts. A large part of the collection can be viewed online.
Carnegie Museum of Art features a central collection of international art and additional halls of architectural art and sculpture. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum houses more than 300,000 works of art and includes among its treasures, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and 33 works by Monet.
Cleveland Museum of Art has a collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranging over 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present, and includes masterpieces from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Dallas Museum of Art's permanent collection ranges from impressionist paintings to contemporary sculpture.
Design Museum: London's museum of international contemporary design.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is the fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works. More than one hundred galleries featuring paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts.
Euromuse: Information on major exhibitions in European museums.
J. Paul Getty Museum: Collections comprise seven areas of art: Greek and Roman antiquities, Medieval manuscripts, European paintings, sculpture, drawings and decorative arts, and photographs.
Musée du Louvre: Divided into 7 departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilisations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Collections contains more than two million works of art spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: International museum of fine art.
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.
The National Gallery, London houses the National Collection # of western European painting, with over 2,300 paintings covering all schools of European art from the 1200s to 1900s.
National Portrait Gallery, London, founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women, the collection represents the most comprehensive of its kind.
New Orleans Museum of Art contains one of America's finest collections of African art as well as a large collection of early and modern American art.
Philadelphia Museum of Art seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret the visual arts to a diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination, and lifelong learning.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, one of the major art museums in Russia, with an international collection of over 3,500 paintings, sculptures and works of applied arts. Located in Moscow.
Royal Academy of Arts's collection includes the finest examples of fine arts from the 18th century to the present.
San Diego Museum of Art features American and international art. Includes the latest events and programs at the museum.
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art: Paintings and sculptures, European as well as Japanese, mostly 19th and 20th century. The Rodin wing contains pre- and post-Rodin works, as well as a major collection of Rodin.
Smithsonian Institution is composed of sixteen museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and numerous research facilities in the United States and abroad.
Sir John Soane's Museum: The magnificent house and collection on the famous architect, Sir John Soane includes fine arts and antiquities. Located in London.
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: Formerly the homes of tsars, the five buildings which comprise the Hermitage now house one of the finest art collections in the world. Site offers a virtual tour, on-line exhibitions and a digital collection of high resolution art images.
Tate Britain is home of the national collections of British art and international modern art. Online exhibits include 8,000 works of art.
Tate Modern: Collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, housed in the former Bankside Power Station in North Southwark.
The 24 Hour Museum is the UK's first national collection in cyberspace with over 2,000 museums and galleries listed and over 300 available on-line.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
The Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum features the Hapsburgs Collection of Art, including paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. Artists include Lipizzaner, Rubens, and Velazquez.