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Architecture

Great Buildings Online
Use this site to access an architecture database and Architecture Week, an architecture magazine.
National Building Specification (NBS)
This UK site offers resources in architecture, engineering, and construction. Although the focus is on UK resources and standards, international resources are also provided.

Art

Art Cyclopedia
This site offers art resources including scans of works of art; it is a leading art resource on the web.
Art History Resources on the Web
This site is a portal to art resources including databases and museums maintained by Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
Arts and Humanities Data Service
This site is a UK national service aiding in the creation and preservation of digital resources in archaeology, visual arts, history, literature, language & linguistics, and performing arts.
Ask Art
Use this site to find information on artists, museums, galleries, professional associations, and access a glossary.
Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
The Catalog of American Portraits is a comprehensive Smithsonian Institute database documenting historically significant American portraits.
World Wide Arts Resource
Access information regarding artists, art history, databases, museums, and much more.

Entertainment

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Learn about the Academy resources, archives, and events, including the Academy Awards.
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Use this site to access information about the Emmy Awards.
All Movie Guide
Use this site to research movie topics worldwide and across movie genres.
Doculink
This site provides resources and services for the documentary filmmaker.
Golden Globes
This is site for the entertainment award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Internet Movie Database
The best movie database on the web. Link to movie show times, access credit lists, and find box office returns.
Library of American Broadcasting
Use this University of Maryland to search a radio and television scripts and transcripts database. The library holds a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting.
Moviefone
Find local movie listings.
Stock Shot Libraries
Use this page from the Regional Film & Video web site to locate film and video archives in the UK.

Museums

Art Museum Network
The Art Museum Network offers a platform for the concerns of art museum leaders. Access articles, blogs, position papers, and presentations.
The Getty Museum
In addition to information about the museums, access to the Getty Vocabularies and to Getty conservation texts and resources from the Getty Conservation Institute is available on the site.
Global Museum
This webzine is dedicated to information about museums. Access information to museum resources, museum related news stories, job openings, and more.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Access information and resources from the venerable New York City museum.
National Gallery of Art
National art resources can be accessed from this site.
National Portrait Gallery
Use this site to access a portrait database of historical figures.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art.
Smithsonian Institute
Use this site to access Smithsonian web resources and links to Smithsonian museums, including everything from Afro American Art, The Natural History Museum, the Postal Museum, and to the National Zoo, and much more.
WebMuseum, Paris
Access an art glossary, online collections, and artist information.

Music

All Music Guide
Use this site to research music by mood, genre, theme, country, or instrument.
Billboard Magazine
This is the web site for the leading newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment.
Classical USA
This site features music resources.
CoralWiki
This site provices access to the Coral Public Domain Library, a free sheet music site. The site also provides bulletin boards, forums, and provisions for requesting music scores.
DW3 Classical Music Resources
This Duke University site offers links to classical music resources on the web.

Performing Arts

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Center is a leader in arts education. Access an online community for arts managers and an immersive online environment for music education.
The Metropolitan Opera
Visit the web site of the most widely heard and known opera company in the world and access its MetOpera Database.

Textiles

Historical Boy's Clothing
Use this page to access information regarding historical fashions for boys.
Singer Featherweight 221
This site is dedicated exclusively to perhaps the only sewing machine to have had a fan club. Learn about its role in WWII and its connection to the War Production Board.
Textile Museum
Access an international directory of textile collections and information on the storing and care of textiles.

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