The Art Institute of Chicago
Online Resources
Art Explorer

Search for artworks and resources in the museum's Impressionist and Postimpressionist collection. Save images and video clips, lesson plans, artists biographies, and more using the scrapbook tool.
Art Explorer
Art Access

Explore works of art in this ever-expanding site that contains images and interpretive information, lesson plans, maps, bibliographies, and family activities.
Art Access
Science, Art, and Technology

Hear specialists in art history, art conservation, and the sciences discuss the connections between art, science, and technology in video clips, along with lesson plans, student projects, and self-guided tour ideas.
Science Art and Technology
Cleopatra

Learn about ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art in this multimedia guide featuring narrated video clips, interactive timelines and maps, and lesson plans. English and Spanish versions.
Cleopatra
Taoism and the Arts of China

View works in the past exhibition Taoism and the Arts of China (2000) and learn about this ancient faith through interactive texts, maps, lesson plans, and diagrams.
Taoism
Chicago: The City in Art

Discover historic mural paintings in 11 Chicago Public School buildings with photographs, information on the murals, and lesson plans for grades pre-K-12.
Chicago: The City of Art
Revealing Picasso:

Infrared and X-ray analysis of Picasso's The Old Guitarist reveal the hidden images beneath its surface.
 
Mary Reynolds Collection

Essays about the collection of Mary Reynolds, patron of Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealists, with an online illustrated catalogue.
 
Chicago Architects Oral History Project

Excerpts and transcripts of interviews with more than 70 Chicago architects active from the turn of the century to the present.