Art & Design Research: Museums & Collections

Browse the library's collection of artists' books and zines on Artstor. Collection strengths include work by North Carolina artists and by Latin American artists. Most of the collection is for in-library use only, but a small portion of it is available in the stacks for short-term circulation.

View archival materials from the vertical files of the Sloane Art Library on Artstor. Artists' files materials could include images of artworks, pdfs of documents, and additional cataloged information relating to the subject of a particular file (for example, a biographical sketch).

Search the database for objects in the permanent collection, including those on long-term loan to the Museum.

Digitized materials from Wilson Library's Special Collections

The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art collects and preserves primary sources documenting the history of art in the U.S. Click on "Digitized Items" to explore images of materials from the archives.

provides access to trusted information, interpretation and scholarship on the global Black experience. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

A variety of digitized materials from cultural institutions across the U.S.

A living database of digitized materials from the NYPL collections, including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, video, and more.

Digitized materials from European archives, libraries, and museums.

Digital Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

This resource includes digitized books and manuscripts, as well as photo and ephemera collections.

The WDL is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, created with support from UNESCO and in cooperation with cultural institutions from around the world.