I think the Canadian equivalent would be Artefacts Canada, hosted by CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network): http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Artefacts_Canada/index.html (though it covers museum collections in general, not just art museums).
Jonathan
Jonathan Franklin
Head of Collections and Database Management, Library
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive
PO Box 427, Station A
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 9N4
Canada
telephone (613) 990 0590
fax (613) 990 6190
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] National art collections databases
Does anyone know of websites such as Joconde for France and Bildarchiv
Foto Marburg for Germany that allow you to search across a country's art
collections or many of them simultaneously?
http://www.bildindex.de/rx/apsisa.dll/init?sid=%7B89204ccf-f800-462c-95c6-1c094ddd1f19%7D&cnt=82371&:sysprotocol=http:&:sysbrowser=dom&:lang=de&
http://www.culture.fr/documentation/joconde/pres.htm
Thanks, Ruth
Ruth S. Thomas
Archaeology, Art, Art History, Classics Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
(617)353-3770
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