Art museums for teens. Teens for art museums.
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Traditional. Online Archives, Museums, and Learning Opportunities.
Google Art Project is an amazing collection of all the illustrious international art museums of the world and has a sizable collection of images from their holdings, which you can view online from the link below.
After you explore the Google Art Project, you can decide which museums hold artwork that you want to explore further, like the Rijksmuseum. If you visit the online website of the Rijksmuseum, you can enjoy amongst other options, the virtual experience of 3-D art galleries.
Besides art museums, many universities around the world hold substantial art collections too. For example, the University of Oxford has online resources to John Ruskin's drawing lessons and examples of his artwork. John Ruskin was a famous nineteenth century art historian and art educator.
There are mansions open to the public that are strewn around America. They were owned by the wealthy industrialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Both in the gardens and in the interiors there is a wealth of art and artifacts. Check out your neighborhood!
The Museum of London and fashion editors have put their heads together and placed contemporary fashion with archival pieces. The result is a fresh outlook on both contemporary and period fashion design. If you could combine the contemporary with the historic, what would you juxtapose?
Have you ever found art or artifacts in your back yard? In Britain it is obligatory to report findings of objects older than 300 years. A database of these artifacts is maintained called the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
This is a fun pinterest type of portfolio creation process, where you can gather items together in order to highlight your favorite works in the Metropolitan's collection.
Some art museums have created interactive games on their websites. The Guggenheim is just one of many art museums that have started doing this. How do you think they could improve on these games?
The American Art Museum has embraced video games as an art form. What do you think about the idea of video games as usurping the role of the traditional fine art triumvirate of sculpture, painting, and drawing?