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Alabama

Birmingham Museum of Art
2000 8th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35203
(205) 254-2565

Huntsville Museum of Art
Mobile Museum of Art
Museum of Mobile
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Alaska

Anchorage Museum of History & Art
121 West Seventh Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 343-4326

University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775-1200
(907) 474-7505

Alaska State Museum (Juneau)

Arizona

Center for Creative Photography
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(602) 621-7968

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
7374 East 2nd Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(602) 994-2787

Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe)
Fleischer Museum (Scottsdale)
Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff)
Phoenix Art Museum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale Center for The Arts
The Heard Museum (Phoenix)
Tucson Museum of Art

Arkansas

Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock)

California

Museum of Photographic Arts
Balboa Park
1649 El Prado,
San Diego, CA 92102
(619) 238-7559

California Museum of Photography
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(714) 787-4787

The J. Paul Getty Museum
17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90265
(213) 458-9811

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(213) 857-6000

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 357-4000

The Museum of Contemporary Art
Three different locations in Los Angeles
(213) 626-6222

Oakland Art Museum
One Thousand Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 238-3005

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 963-4364

Fresno Art Museum
2233 North 1st Street
Fresno, CA 93703
(209) 485-4810

Northern California
Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
Berkeley Art Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
De Young Museum (San Francisco)
San Jose Museum of Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University (Palo Alto)
San Jose Museum of Art

Middle California
Bakersfield Museum of Art
Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento)
Fresno Metropolitan Museum (Fresno)

Southern California
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
California African American Museum (Los Angeles)
The Huntington - Library, Art Collections (San Marino)
Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena) Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego)
The Riverside Municipal Museum
San Diego Museum of Art

Colorado

Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Ave. Parkway
Denver, CO 80204
(303) 640-2295

Aspen Art Museum
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver)

Connecticut

Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520
(203) 432-0600

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield)
The Bruce Museum (Greenwich )
Davidson Art Center (Middletown)
Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington)
The Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury)
Mystic Seaport (Mystic)
New England Center for Contemporary Art (Brooklyn)
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
The William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs)
The Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford)

Delaware

Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington)
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington)
University of Delaware - University Gallery (Newark)

District of Columbia

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
17th & New York Avenue NW.
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 638-3211

National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW.
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 783-5000

National Portrait Gallery
F Street at 8th Northwest
Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-1915

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Kreeger Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Building Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of the American Indian
The Phillips Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Florida

Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue
Miami, FL 33139
(305) 673-7530

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
200 North Tampa Street
Tampa, Florida 33602
(813) 221-2222

Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Drive NE
St. Petersburg, FL 33759
(727) 896-2667

Norton Museum of Art
1451 South Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 832-5196

Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bayshore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243
(813) 355-5101

The Southeast Museum of Photography
Daytona Beach Community College
P.O. Box 2811
Daytona Beach, Florida 32120
(904) 254-4475

Art Museum at Florida International University (Miami Beach)
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Winter Park)
Harn Museum of Art (U of F, Gainesville)
Lowe Art Museum (U of Miami))
Miami Art Museum
Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale)
Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami)
Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach)
The Salvador Dali Museum (St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts

Georgia

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street NE.
Atlanta, GA 30309
(404) 892-3600

Albany Museum of Art
Columbus Museum
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Emory University, Atlanta)
Morris Museum of Art (Augusta)
Oglethorpe University Museum (Atlanta)
Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah)

Hawaii

Bishop Museum
The Contemporary Museum
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Ramsay Museum

Idaho

The Boise Art Museum
670 S. Julia Davis Drive
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 345-8330

Illinois

Art Institute of Chicago
Michigan Ave. at Adams St.
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 443-3600

Museum of Contemporary Art
237 East Ontario Street
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 280-2660

Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 663-5554

Chicago Athenaeum
Smart Museum of Art (U of Chicago)
The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
The Oriental Institute Museum (U of Chicago)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Spertus Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Evanston Art Center (Evanston)
The Krannert Art Museum (U of I at Urbana-Champaign)
University Museum (Carbondale)

Indiana

Indiana University Art Museum
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-5445

Brauer Museum of Art (Valparaiso University)
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis)
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Richmond Art Museum
Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame)
Swope Art Museum (Terra Haute)

Iowa

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Davenport Museum of Art
Des Moines Art Center
Sioux City Art Center
University of Iowa Museum of Art (Iowa City)

Kansas

Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
(913) 864-4714

Beach Museum of Art (KSU, Manhattan)
Mulvane Art Museum of Washburn University (Topeka)
Wichita Art Museum
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art (WSU, Wichita)

Kentucky

J.B Speed Art Museum (Louisville)
University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington)

Louisiana

New Orleans Museum of Art
City Park, P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70179
(504) 488-2631

Alexandria Museum of Art
The Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans )
Meadows Museum (Centenary College, Shreveport)
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)
The R. W. Norton Foundation (Shreveport)

Maine

Bates College Museum of Art (Lewiston)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick)
Colby Museum of Art (Waterville)
Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland)
Portland Museum of Art
University of Maine Museum of Art (Orono)

Maryland

Academy of the Arts
American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Contemporary Museum
The Walters Art Gallery

Massachusetts

Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4544

Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester, MA 01890
(781) 729-1158

Museum of Fine Art
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523
(617) 267-9300

Smith College Museum of Art
Northampton, MA 01063
(413) 585-2760

Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
(508) 799-4406

Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln)
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams)
Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown)
Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown)

Michigan

The Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 833-7900

Grand Rapids Art Museum
155 Division Avenue North
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
(616) 459-4677

Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills)
Dennos Museum Center (Traverse City)
Flint Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kresge Art Museum (MSU, East Lansing)
University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor)

Minnesota

Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-3046

Walker Art Center
Vineland Place
Minneapolis, MN 55403
(612) 375-7600

Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul)
Tweed Museum of Art (U of M, Duluth)
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (U of M)

Mississippi

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (Laurel)
Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson)
University of Mississippi Museum (Oxford)
Walter Anderson Museum of Art (Ocean Springs)

Missouri

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 561-4000

The Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 721-0067

Center of Contemporary Arts
City Museum
Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis
The Sheldon Art Galleries
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Kansas City
Kansas City Museum
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Other Cities
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art (St. Joseph)
Museum of Art & Archaeology (U of M, Columbia)
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia)
William & Florence Schmidt Art Center (Belleville)

Montana

Art Museum of Missoula
C.M. Russell Museum
Holter Museum of Art (Helena)
Hockaday Museum of Art (Kalispell)
Montana Museum of Art and Culture (U of MT, Missoula)
Museum of the Plains Indian (Browning)
Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings)

Nebraska

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
University of Nebraska Lincoln
12th and R Street
Lincoln, NB 56560-0300
(402) 472-2461

Museum of Nebraska (Kearney)
Joslyn Art Museum

Nevada

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno, NV 89501
(702) 329-3333

New Hampshire

Hood Museum of Art (Hanover)
The Currier Gallery of Art (Manchester)

New Jersey

The Art Museum
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-3788

The Montclaire Art Museum
Morris Museum (Morristown)
Museum of American Glass (Millville)
The Newark Museum
The Noyes Museum of Art (Oceanville)

New Mexico

Albuquerque Museum of Art
2000 Mountain Road NW.
Albuquerque, NM 87104
(505) 243-7255

University of New Mexico Art Museum
Fine Arts Center
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-4001

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 946-1000

Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe)
Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe)

New York

The Grey Art Gallery
New York University Fine Art Museum
100 Washington Square
New York, NY 10003

Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10128
(212) 423-3500

International Center for Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd
New York, NY 10036
(212) 857-0000

Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, NY 10028
(212) 879-5500

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400

Whitney Museum
945 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
(212) 570-3600

The Frick Collection
Museum of the City of New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

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George Eastman House
900 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
(716) 271-3361

Strong Museum (Rochester)
Albany Institute of History and Art (Albany)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo)
Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn)
Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)
The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse)
Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase)

North Carolina

North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, NC
(919) 839-6262

Ackland Art Museum (U of NC, Chapel Hill)
Asheville Art Museum
Contemporary Art Museum (Raleigh)
Duke University Museum of Art
Fayetteville Museum of Art
Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte)
Weatherspoon Art Gallery (U of NC, Greensboro)

North Dakota

Plains Art Museum
704 First Ave North
Fargo, ND 58102
(701) 232-3821 ext. 112

The North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks)

Ohio

Akron Art Museum
70 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44308
(216) 376-9185

Cincinnati Art Museum
Eden Park
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 721-5204

Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 421-7340

Columbus Art Museum
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 221-6801

Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe St. at Scottwood Ave.
Toledo, OH 43697
(419) 255-8000

Dayton Art Institute
Springfield Museum of Art
Taft Museum of Art (Cincinnati)

Oklahoma

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (U of O, Norman)
Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa)
Oklahoma City Art Museum
Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa)
World Organization of China Painters Museum (Oklahoma City)

Oregon

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW. Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 226-2811

Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Willamette University, Salem)
Portland Art Museum
Oregon Historical Society (Portland)
University of Oregon Museum of Art (Eugene)

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art
P.O. Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101
(215) 763-8100

The James A. Michener Art Museum
138 South Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
(215) 340-9800

National Museum of American Jewish History
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Institute of Contemporary Art U of Pennsylvania
Woodmere Art Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum
Carnegie Museum of Art
The Frick Art Museum (Pittsburg)
Erie Art Museum
James A. Michener Art Museum (Doylestown)
Juniata College Museum of Art (Huntingdon)
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Altoona)
Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg)

Rhode Island

Newport Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

South Carolina

Charleston Museum
Columbia Museum of Art
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston)
Greenville County Museum of Art
South Carolina State Museum (Columbia)

South Dakota

Tennessee

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Overton Park
Memphis, TN 38112
(901) 722-3500

Reece Museum
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
Frank H. McClung Museum
Hunter Museum of American Art
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis)
Knoxville Museum of Art
Tennessee State Museum (Nashville)

Texas

Amon Carter Museum
PO Box 2365
Fort Worth, TX 76113-2365
(817) 738-1933

Austin Museum of Art
823 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 495-9224

Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
(214) 922-1200

Galveston Arts Center
2127 Strand
Galveston, TX 77550
(409) 763-2403

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
PO Box 7219
Austin, TX 78713
(512) 471-9124

Museum of Fine Arts
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005
(713) 639-7300

Contemporary Arts Museum
The Menil Collection
Austin Museum of Art
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
San Antonio Museum of Art

Utah

Museum of Art (Brigham Young University, Provo)
Springville Museum of Art
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (U of Utah, Salt Lake City

Vermont

The Bennington Museum
Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum (Manchester)
Robert Hull Fleming Museum (U of VT, Burlington

Virginia

Chrysler Museum of Art
Olney Road & Mowbray Arch
Norfolk, VA 23510
(804) 622-1211

O. Winston Link Museum
One Market Square
101 Shenandoah Avenue
Roanoke, VA 24016

Art Museum of Western Virginia (Roanoke)
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (Virginia Beach)
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
University of Virginia Art Museum

Washington

Frye Art Museum
P.O. Box 3005
Seattle, WA 98114
(206) 622-9250

The Henry Gallery
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-2280

Seattle Art Museum
P.O. Box 22000
Seattle, WA 98122-9700
(206) 625-8900

Tacoma Art Museum
1123 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402
(206) 272-4258

The Burke Museum
The Wing Luke Asian Museum
Bellevue Art Museum
Maryhill Museum of Art (Goldendale)
Museum of Glass (Tacoma)
Museum of Northwest Art (La Connor)
Washington State Historical Museum (Tacoma)
Whatcom Museum of History and Art (Bellingham)
WSU Museum of Art (Pullman)

West Virginia

Art Museum of Western Virginia
Huntington Museum of Art

Wisconsin

Milwaukee Art Museum
750 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 224-3200

Madison Art Center
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Milwaukee Public Museum
Oshkosh Public Museum

Wyoming

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody)
National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole)
University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie)

International Museums of Photography

Australian Centre for Photography - Australia
Fox Talbot Museum - England
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography - Canada
Finnish Museum of Photography - Finland
Fotomuseum Winterthur - Switzerland
Gallery of Photography - Ireland
Latvian Photo Museum - Latvia
Maison Europeenne de La Photographie - France
Museet for Fotokunst - Denmark
Museum of Photography of Antwerp - Nederland
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - England
Nara City Museum of Photography - Japan
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography - Greece
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography - Japan

Virtual Online Museums of Photography

American Museum of Photography
Helios - Smithsonian Photography Online

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