November 27, 2006
Wilson Expands Art Museum Image Gallery
The H.W. Wilson Company has just announced the addition of some 62,000 images to its acclaimed Art Museum Image Gallery database, a popular art image reference source on the WilsonWeb database service. Drawn from more than 1,800 sources, the new images include material from among the world's most respected museums: Muse du Louvre, Paris; Museum der Stadt, Vienna; Bibliothque des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris; Muse du Chteau de Versailles; Museo del Prado, Madrid; National Anthropological Museum, Mexico; British Museum; Archaeological Museum, Istanbul; Archaeological Museum, Lima; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; Bardo Museum, Tunis; and others. Full bibliographic records accompany every image, and all images are rights-cleared for educational use.
Acquired through The Art Archive of the Picture Desk, Inc. (a leading art, civilization and history image library), the new images build on Art Museum Image Gallery's coverage of ancient civilizations, American and European history, Medieval history, world religions and icons from the history of art and architecture. The new content brings the total number of images on Art Museum Image Gallery to more than 155,000, spanning works from 3000 BC to the 20th century.
Hailed by Library Journal as "essential," Art Museum Image Gallery offers support for curricula in art history, studio art and design, as well as cultural studies, area studies, archaeology, classics, history, religion, literature and related subject areas. Teachers can use high-resolution images in class lectures, assignments, academic presentations, and password-protected course web sites. Students can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in papers and classroom assignments. Museums can provide patron access to the Art Museum Image Gallery from computer kiosks, and use images for public lectures or scholarly presentations.
For a full list of the new museums represented on Art Museum Image Gallery, visit www.hwwilson.com/art/ArtMuseumList.pdf. Free 30-day trial subscriptions are available. Contact BCR's Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org).
