Find the story behind a museum work
Pick a museum, then see what Lensmark can tell you about a work you photograph there: who made it, when, and why it matters.
All museum pages are listed below.
83 museums
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Acropolis Museum
Athens, Greece
Explore sculpture and antiquities from the Acropolis and its slopes.
- Sculpture
- Antiquities
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Albertina
Vienna, Austria
Explore Dürer's drawings and the Albertina's graphic art collection.
- Prints and drawings
- Paintings
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ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Aarhus, Denmark
Explore Danish art, contemporary sculpture and immersive installations.
- Paintings
- Installation art
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
Explore European painting and much more, from Seurat's La Grande Jatte to van Gogh's The Bedroom.
- Paintings
- Prints and drawings
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Ashmolean Museum
Oxford, United Kingdom
Explore European paintings, the Alfred Jewel and art from across the world.
- Paintings
- Antiquities
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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland, New Zealand
Explore Aotearoa art, including Colin McCahon’s The Promised Land.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Capitoline Museums
Rome, Italy
Explore Rome's sculpture and painting, including the Capitoline Venus.
- Antiquities
- Sculpture
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Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
Explore Tête dada and modern art; the Paris building is closed for renovation.
- Sculpture
- Design
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Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Explore six millennia of art, from Rodin's The Thinker to Church's painted wilderness.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Dalí Theatre-Museum
Figueres, Spain
Explore Dalí's paintings and room-scale installations in Figueres.
- Paintings
- Installations
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de Young Museum
San Francisco, United States
Explore American painting, textiles and art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
- Paintings
- Textiles
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Design Museum
London, United Kingdom
Explore the design history of road signs, typewriters and record players.
- Design
- Decorative arts
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Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Explore Cambridge's art and antiquities, including paintings by Hals and Monet.
- Paintings
- Antiquities
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Galleria dell’Accademia
Florence, Italy
Explore Michelangelo’s David and Florentine painting, sculpture and historic instruments.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Gongju National Museum
Gongju, South Korea
Explore Baekje heritage through objects from King Muryeong's Tomb.
- Antiquities
- Sculpture
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Explore contemporary art, including Jeff Koons’s flower-covered Puppy.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Herculaneum
Ercolano, Italy
Explore Roman frescoes, sculpture and traces of daily life preserved at Herculaneum.
- Antiquities
- Sculpture
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Hong Kong Palace Museum
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Explore Chinese painting and calligraphy, from a portrait to a painted silk fan.
- Painting
- Calligraphy
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Horniman Museum and Gardens
London, United Kingdom
Explore world cultures through the Dogon Walu antelope mask and painted stories of Solomon and Sheba.
- Sculpture
- Paintings
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Humboldt Forum
Berlin, Germany
Explore Asian art and objects from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
- Sculpture
- Decorative arts
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Istanbul Modern
Istanbul, Turkey
Explore Turkish and international art, from sculpture to a Bosphorus installation.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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IWM London
London, United Kingdom
Explore war art, photography and film through IWM's collection records.
- Paintings
- Photography
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Explore Glasgow's art and design, including Mackintosh's The Wassail.
- Paintings
- Design
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Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Explore Old Master paintings, Habsburg Kunstkammer objects and antiquities in Vienna's main KHM building.
- Paintings
- Decorative arts
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Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Explore sculpture, neon art and painting in Liverpool's working Anglican cathedral.
- Sculpture
- Paintings
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebaek, Denmark
Explore postwar art and sculpture, including Kusama’s Gleaming Lights of the Souls.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Louvre Museum
Paris, France
Explore painting and antiquities at the Louvre, including the Mona Lisa.
- Paintings
- Antiquities
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M+
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Explore visual culture through a television chair, marble sculpture and pencil drawing.
- Visual art
- Design
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MALBA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Explore Latin American art through works by Tarsila do Amaral, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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MANN
Naples, Italy
Explore Farnese sculpture, including the Farnese Hercules, and finds from Pompeii.
- Sculpture
- Antiquities
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Meijer Gardens
Grand Rapids, United States
Explore modern outdoor sculpture and the meeting of art and horticulture at Meijer Gardens.
- Sculpture
- Installation art
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MMCA Seoul
Seoul, South Korea
Explore Korean contemporary art at MMCA Seoul, including the collection record for Unfinished Story.
- Paintings
- Installation art
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Mucem
Marseille, France
Explore Mediterranean visual culture through a Jerusalem video, an Olympic costume and an AIDES auction catalogue.
- Textiles
- Photography
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MUNCH
Oslo, Norway
Explore Edvard Munch's paintings and prints, including The Scream.
- Paintings
- Prints and drawings
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Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Paris, France
Explore Fauvism, Cubism and modern French painting in the Palais de Tokyo.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
Explore art from 1848 to 1914 in a former railway station, including Olympia.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Musée de l'Orangerie
Paris, France
Explore Monet’s Water Lilies and the Walter-Guillaume collection of modern painting.
- Impressionist painting
- Modern painting
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Musée Picasso Paris
Paris, France
Explore Picasso's Autoportrait, paintings, sculpture and personal archives at the Hôtel Salé in Paris.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano
Milan, Italy
Explore Leonardo's Last Supper, Montorfano's Crucifixion and a collaborative video artwork in Milan.
- Paintings
- Installation art
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Museo Egizio
Turin, Italy
Explore ancient Egyptian sculpture and writing, including the Statue of Ramesses II.
- Sculpture
- Manuscripts
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Museo Nacional de Antropología
Mexico City, Mexico
Explore Mexica sculpture, a Teotihuacan architectural slab and José Chávez Morado’s interpretation of Mesoamerica.
- Sculpture
- Antiquities
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Explore Argentine and European art, including Sin pan y sin trabajo.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Museo Reina Sofía
Madrid, Spain
Explore Guernica and paintings by Ángeles Santos through their sourced histories.
- Painting
- Modern art
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Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
Explore Romanesque mural painting, Gothic art and Catalan Modernisme in Barcelona.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Museu Oscar Niemeyer
Curitiba, Brazil
Explore Poty Lazzarotto prints alongside MON’s Asian and African collections.
- Prints and drawings
- Sculpture
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Boston, United States
Explore the MFA Boston's paintings and sculpture, including Watson and the Shark.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
Explore The Starry Night and modern painting alongside photography, film, architecture and design at MoMA in Manhattan.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Nanjing Museum
Nanjing, China
Explore Chinese porcelain, Jiangsu archaeological finds and ancient metalwork at Nanjing Museum.
- Antiquities
- Decorative arts
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National Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC, United States
Explore aviation and spaceflight art, including Weather Mural.
- Paintings
- Photography
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National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Explore Western European painting through Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, Turner’s Fighting Temeraire and Van Gogh’s London Sunflowers.
- Paintings
- Portraits
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National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, United States
Explore European and American art, including Ginevra de Benci.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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National Gallery of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Explore Irish and European art through Caravaggio, Vermeer and Frederic William Burton.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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National Museum of China
Beijing, China
Explore Chinese archaeology and art, including the Four-goat bronze square zun.
- Antiquities
- Painting
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National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Explore the Monymusk Reliquary, Lewis chess pieces and Scotland's history alongside art, design and scientific objects in Edinburgh.
- Antiquities
- Decorative arts
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National Museum of Western Art
Tokyo, Japan
Explore Western painting, French modern art and sculpture at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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National Portrait Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Explore British portraiture, including William Shakespeare and The Brontë Sisters.
- Paintings
- Photography
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National Portrait Gallery
Washington, DC, United States
Explore American portraits and time-based art through sourced histories in Washington, DC.
- Painting
- Time-based media
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Neue Nationalgalerie
Berlin, Germany
Explore twentieth-century art through Newman’s colour fields, Kirchner’s Berlin street scene and Dix’s card players.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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NGV International
Melbourne, Australia
Explore international art, including The Banquet of Cleopatra.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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NMAI Washington
Washington, United States
Explore Native arts and material culture through records including a jar with feathered serpent design.
- Antiquities
- Decorative arts
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North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, United States
Explore Monet’s Normandy cliffs, Rodin’s bronze and Cassatt’s portrait in Raleigh’s art collection.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Copenhagen, Denmark
Explore ancient sculpture and Danish and French painting, including Corot’s Melancholy.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Palace of Versailles
Versailles, France
Explore royal portraits and French history in the former royal palace.
- Paintings
- Decorative arts
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Pantheon
Rome, Italy
Explore the Pantheon's Roman architecture and art, including Raphael's tomb beneath Lorenzetto's Madonna del Sasso.
- Sculpture
- Antiquities
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Petit Palais
Paris, France
Explore European painting, decorative arts and drawings at the Petit Palais, Paris's City Museum of Fine Arts.
- Paintings
- Decorative arts
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Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford, United Kingdom
Explore global archaeology and ethnography, including Star House Pole and a Hawaiian feather cloak.
- Antiquities
- Decorative arts
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Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Explore Dutch art and history, including The Night Watch.
- Paintings
- Decorative arts
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Royal Castle in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
Explore the Royal Castle in Warsaw's paintings, sculpture and royal interiors, including two Rembrandt portraits and Houdon's Bust of Moliere.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
Explore Flemish Primitives, Antwerp Baroque and Belgian modern art at KMSKA.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Salar Jung Museum
Hyderabad, India
Explore painting, sculpture and decorative arts, including Veiled Rebecca.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Scottish National Gallery
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Explore Gauguin, Titian and Velázquez through their sourced histories at The Mound.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Shanghai Museum on People's Square
Shanghai, China
Explore the history of Shanghai Museum at People's Square, with its current Ancient Americas exhibition clearly distinguished from its Chinese furniture collection.
- Furniture
- Decorative arts
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC, United States
Explore American painting, sculpture and media art through works by Nam June Paik, Hiram Powers and Albert Bierstadt.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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State Hall
Vienna, Austria
Explore the State Hall's frescoes, imperial sculpture and globes.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Te Papa
Wellington, New Zealand
Explore New Zealand art and taonga, including Colin McCahon's Northland panels.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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teamLab Planets TOKYO
Tokyo, Japan
Explore teamLab’s responsive water, light and digital flower installations in Toyosu.
- Installations
- Sculpture
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv, Israel
Explore Israeli art through works by Nahum Gutman, Reuven Rubin and Arieh Aroch.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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The Broad
Los Angeles, United States
Explore postwar and contemporary art at The Broad, from Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog (Blue) to Yayoi Kusama's mirrored room.
- Painting
- Sculpture
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Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Explore Japanese and Asian art, including Hasegawa Tōhaku's Pine Forest.
- Paintings
- Antiquities
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Vatican Museums
Vatican City, Vatican City
Explore papal collections of painting and sculpture, including Laocoön and His Sons.
- Paintings
- Sculpture
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
Explore art and design at the V&A in South Kensington.
- Decorative arts
- Textiles
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Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City, United States
Explore American art through Edward Hopper, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jacob Lawrence.
- Paintings
- Drawings
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World Museum
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Explore Egyptian antiquities, Chinese ceramics and objects from world cultures.
- Sculpture
- Antiquities
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