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Art
- Art Cyclopedia: An index of online museums and image archives: find where the works of over 8000 different fine artists can be viewed online.
- Art Net: Buy, sell, and research fine art online.
- Artprice: A comprehensive source of art market information with various databases about auctions, current estimated prices, and more.
- Artura.org: This free and open educational resource, powered by the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, is a global community of volunteers, contributors, art historians, educators, artists and art lovers united in making diverse art freely accessible online, especially to the academic, curatorial, and education communities.
- British Library: A searchable database of over 30,000 items from their collection.
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection: Contains catalog records and digital images primarily produced in or documenting the history of the United States, and the lives of the American people.
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery: Searchable database of 712,000 digitized items from the New York Public Library's collections.
- Timelines of Art History: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum's collections.
- World Wide Art Resources: Marketplace for contemporary art, international art news, research and gallery portfolios.
Museum
- American Museum of Photography: A virtual museum exploring various aspects of the medium with numerous online exhibits strongest from the early days of photography (1839) to World War I.
- Google Arts & Culture: A platform that allows users to virtually tour hundreds of museums and cultural institutions, as well as create and share their own virtual galleries.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collection: Over 440,000 records of items in the collection with images.
- Museum of Modern Art: Offers an overview of modern art, examples from their collections of painting and sculpture, drawings, prints, illustrated books, architecture, design, photography, film, video, and much more.
- National Gallery of Art: A collection of more than 100,000 searchable art objects, tours of galleries, and describes and illustrates current and upcoming exhibitions.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art: Collections range from ancient to modern, Asian, European, American, Middle East, includes the Rodin Museum.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: Search collection of 40,000 art objects, more than 18,000 works are illustrated.
Entertainment
- Common Sense Media: A nonprofit which reviews and rates various media content to help families determine what is age-appropriate media for children
- Entertainment Weekly: All the latest entertainment news, including TV, movies, music, and books.
- Open Culture: Open Culture finds and curates tons of free cultural & educational media, including e-books, e-audiobooks, online courses and more, for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
- Variety: Variety magazine online with breaking entertainment news, movie reviews, industry events and more
Movies
- Based on the Book: Database of selected movies based on Books
- Film Ratings: MPAA's movie ratings since 1968 with additional resource links for parents to make informed decisions about what to watch with their families.
- Internet Movie Database: Entries provide detailed information for movies (in theaters, on video or DVD, and forthcoming), as well as television movies and series
- MovieFone: Find movie times and purchase tickets, as well as find what's on TV and out on DVD.
- Rotten Tomatoes: The leading online aggregator of movie and TV show reviews from critics and fans, providing a comprehensive guide to what’s Fresh – and what’s Rotten – in theaters and at home.
Music
- All-music Guide: Contains ratings and reviews of more than 400,000 record albums, search by artist, album, song, style, or label
- Billboard: Daily music news, weekly charts with music samples, this day in music, new releases, a review finder, with tens of thousands of original album reviews from 1970 through today
- Classical Net: Contains guides to building a classical music collection, articles and reviews, information on composers, links to related websites, and more. Searchable
- Music For The Nation: American Music Sheet: American Music Sheet: This digitally scanned collection from the Library of Congress has over 47,000 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870-1885.
- International Music Score Library Project: A community-built library of public domain sheet music. Extensive collection of original scores scanned to PDF.
- Mutopia Project: Free sheet music for everyone. All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Includes inductees, sound clips, birthdates, and a searchable archive