Here are some selected websites of interest for studies in Modern Design and Art History, and links to major institutions such as art libraries, galleries or museums.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
The Design Museum, London
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (collections database)
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred global museums and libraries
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (The Met)
Over 8,000 works of art and global culture from The Met's collection, as well as essays and chronologies of time periods and geographic regions
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Refereed e-journal of nineteenth century visual culture: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts
A hypermedia archive for the scholarly study of the complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Peer-reviewed by NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) Consortium.
The Victorian Web : Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria
Webmastered by George P. Landow, Professor of English and the History of Art, Emeritus, Brown University. Includes links to The Arts in Victorian Britain
William Morris Society Web Site
Site devoted to William Morris (1834-96), British craftsman, designer, writer, typographer, and Socialist. Includes link to the William Morris Society of Canada.
Canadian Museum of History (formerly Canadian Museum of Civilization)
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal)