Norfolk State University Galleries
NSU is home to two galleries, the James Wise Gallery and the African Art Gallery at NSU.
The African Art Gallery at NSU
"Collects and exhibits more than 700 works of art and artifacts from 13 African countries, including Ghana, Liberia, Mali, and Nigeria."
Location: Lyman Beecher Brooks Library, 2nd floor - Norfolk State University, 700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504
Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
Telephone: 757-823-2002 or 757-823-2003
The James Wise Gallery
"The James Wise Gallery provides a space for exploring and experiencing art for students, faculty, and the community. Through our exhibitions, we support meaningful interactions between artists, students, and the public."
Location: E. L. Hamm Fine Arts Building
Hours of Operation: Monday-Thursday 10:00am - 6:00pm and Friday 10:00am - 4:00pm during the academic year
Telephone: 757-823-8857
Area Galleries & Museums
Our area has many museums and galleries offering rotating exhibits, events, and classes.
- Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg"Explore the expanded and updated Art Museums, featuring more of the collection on view than ever. Discover colorful and whimsical folk art made by amateur artisans in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum to objects that are useful as well as beautiful in the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum."
- Barry Art Museum"The Barry Art Museum is a cultural hub at Old Dominion University that advances the understanding of art in its many diverse forms through collecting, display, interpretation, and research. It strives to communicate the results of these endeavors to the widest possible audience through publication, exhibition, educational programs, and collections stewardship."
- Chrysler Museum of Art"The Chrysler Museum has fifty galleries, a growing collection of more than 30,000 objects, an interactive space for families, and the only glass studio of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. Best of all, admission is free."
- Hampton University MuseumThe purpose of the University Museum is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and interpret artifacts and works of traditional art which illustrate the cultures, heritages and histories of African, Native American, Oceanic and Asian peoples, as well as the works of contemporary African American, African and American Indian artists and three-dimensional objects which relate to the history and significance of Hampton University.
- Hermitage Museum and Garden"The Hermitage features a nationally recognized art collection spanning 5,000 years, changing indoor and outdoor exhibitions, a Visual Arts Studio, and 12 acres of gardens and grounds that offer art and culture to the community."
- Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA)"The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University presents the art of our time and provides an open forum for dialogue and collaboration across the region and throughout the world."
- NEON Districtthe NEON District is Norfolk’s official arts district. NEON, or New Energy Of Norfolk, draws from the neighborhood’s history with the automobile industry as it moves into a new and vibrant future. Long time cultural institutions like the Chrysler Museum of Art and Harrison Opera House anchor the District while studio-based ventures like d’Art Center and the Rutter Family Art Foundation provide artists a place to make, create and show.
- Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center"The Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center is the restored 1899 residence of prominent African-American attorney J. Thomas Newsome and his wife Mary Winfield Newsome." It is also "a venue for exhibitions, special events, and community functions."
- Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art"Virginia MOCA presents ever-changing exhibitions where neighbors, strangers, students, families, communities, and cultures are invited to explore our shared humanity, through locally relevant and nationally resonant, contemporary art that’s exceptional—in all of its timeliness, restlessness, and beauty."
Museums
This is a non-exhaustive list of major museums from around the world. These museums offer digital databases of their collections. For a larger list visit Wikipedia's list of National Galleries and Veranda's article - "49 Spectacular Museums You Need to Visit in Your Lifetime"
- The Art Institute of Chicago CollectionsExplore the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- California African American Museum (CAAM)Browse the CAAM collections.
- Denver Art MuseumBrowse the collections.
- The Getty Museum of ArtBrowse the art collection of the Getty, Los Angles, CA.
- The High Museum of ArtExplore the art and exhibitions of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami CollectionBrowse the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.
- Memphis Brooks Museum of ArtExplore the art collection at the Memphis Brooks Museum Art, Memphis, TN.
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)Browse the MCA collections.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)Browse the NMAAHC collection. Images of objects from the collection available to view, download, and share.
- National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)The NMAI fosters a richer shared human experience through a more informed understanding of Native peoples.
- Smithsonian Institution CollectionsThe Smithsonian is home to 21 museums. You can search all the collections here.
- The British Museum CollectionCollection online allows access to almost four and a half million objects in more than two million records.
- The Egyptian MuseumBrowse some of the masterpieces from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
- Iziko museums of South AfricaIziko Museums of South Africa (Iziko) operates Cape Town’s premier cultural attractions. The 11 national museums, each with their own history and character, inspire our visitors through creative interpretation, education, research and information sharing, with professional and consistent high-quality exhibitions, programmes and events.
- Jewish MuseumLocated in New York City, The Jewish Museum is dedicated to the enjoyment, understanding, and preservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of the Jewish people.
- Museo del PradoExplore the collections of principle national art museum of Spain.
- Museo Nacional de Arte | CollectionsCollections from the Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
- Museu de Arte de São Paulo | CollectionsLocated in São Paulo, Brazil, MASP is currently considered the most important art museum in the Southern Hemisphere, with about 10,000 pieces of art from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas including Brazil, from time periods spanning from antiquity to the 21st century and including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, clothing and other media.
- Museum of Islamic ArtThe Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the world, with masterpieces from every corner of the globe representing the diversity found in Islamic heritage. Doha, Qatar
- Musée du Louvre & Musée National Eugène-DelacroixThe Collections database consists of entries for more than 490,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, Paris France. Updated on a daily basis, it is the result of the continuous research and documentation efforts carried out by teams of experts from both museums.
- National Art Gallery of New Zealand | Te Papa TongarewaBrowse 800,000 artworks, taonga, photographs, collection objects, and botanical and zoological specimens from Te Papa’s, Wellington, New Zealand, collections.
- National Gallery of AustraliaBrowse the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australia.
- National Gallery of CanadaBrowse the National Gallery of Canada collections, Ottawa, Canada
- National Gallery of GreeceBrowse the collections of the Alexandros Soutsos Museum (National Gallery) of Greece, Athens.
- National Museum, New DelhiUnder the tab "Art and Research" you can explore the collections of the National Museum of India.
- The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) CollectionsSearch items from the NMAAHC.
- National Museum of KoreaBrowse the collections of the flagship museum of Korean history and art.
- National Palace MuseumThe National Palace Museum of Taiwan allows you to browse their collections as well as download open datasets.
- RijksmuseumBrowse the collections of the museum of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam - 800 years of Dutch history and art.
- Tokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumYou can read through past publications from the museum.
- Uffizi GalleryBrowse the artworks of the Gallerie Degli Uffizi, located in Florence, Italy.
- Vatican Museums CollectionsBrowse items from the Vatican Museum Collections, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
- Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum CollectionsCollections of the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hà Nội, Việt Nam