Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.

* Richard Wollheim, Art and its objects, 2nd edn, 1980, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29706-0

* Art products ; for example, plastic objects, carved in stone or ivory, cast or beaten in metals ( gold, silver, copper and bronze ), or modelled in clay, faience, paste, etc.

The Dayton Art Institute, a museum of fine arts, owns collections containing more than 20, 000 objects spanning 5, 000 years of art and archaeological history.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

Other fine and decorative art objects from the University Art Collection include prints, paintings, sculptures, textiles, carpets, wood objects, lacquered pieces, silver, and furniture.

Art historians Oskar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener suggest that in The Ambassadors " Sciences and arts, objects of luxury and glory, are measured against the grandeur of Death ".

In Science in Hapgood and Arcadia Paul Edwards, professor of English and History of Art at Bath Spa University, explains what this represents: " At the end of the play, the table has accumulated a variety of objects that, if one saw them without having seen the play, would seem completely random and disordered.

In addition, since 1995 the Queens Museum of Art has featured a permanent collection of Tiffany objects, which continues Tiffany ’ s presence in Corona, Queens where the company's studios were once located.

The V & As collection of Art from Asia numbers more than 160, 000 objects, one of the greatest in existence.

The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, opened in 2006, houses a representative display of 400 objects with the highlight being the Ardabil Carpet, the centrepiece of the gallery.

In the book " Themes in Contemporary Art ”, it is suggested that “ installations in the 1980s and 1990s were increasingly characterized by networks of operations involving the interaction among complex architectural settings, environmental sites and extensive use of everyday objects in ordinary contexts.

This trend in art is exemplified by the work of Robert Rauschenberg, whose " combines " in the 1950s were forerunners of Pop Art and Installation art, and made use of the assemblage of large physical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photography.

Installation Art has been important in determining the spaces selected for museums of contemporary art in order to be able to hold the large works which are composed of vast collages of manufactured and found objects.

* Derfner Museum: The Derfner Judaica Museum maintains a collection of approximately 1, 400 objects used in traditional Jewish ceremonies and rituals, as well as Jewish Art.

The museum houses approximately 50, 000 exhibits of ancient Indian history as well as objects from foreign lands, categorized primarily into three sections: Art, Archaeology and Natural History.

The Art Ensemble is notable for its integration of musical styles spanning jazz's entire history and for their multi-instrumentalism, especially the use of what they termed " little instruments " in addition to the traditional jazz lineup ; " little instruments " can include bicycle horns, bells, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and a vast array of percussion instruments ( including found objects ).

The museum ’ s collection comprises approximately 40, 000 objects, with about 1, 400 on display .< ref name =" website "> Indiana University Art Museum.

In " Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement " ( 2004 ), author Marbeth Schon explores unique and innovative wearable art objects created by surrealists, cubists, abstract expressionists, and other modernist artists working in the middle decades of the 20th century.

In 2011, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which has had " one of the longest and most fruitful associations with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company of any American museum ", struck an agreement with the Cunningham Foundation to acquire as many as 150 of the art objects that have been central to the company ’ s dances, including sculptures, sets, costumes and other works by artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, United States houses nearly 8, 000 ceramic and glass objects.

Pixar, in fact, sold the license to the manufacturer of Tin Toy MINDStyle objects, which created a maquette of the vinyl character Tinny inside of the line Art Toy Collectible limited Edition of 500 pieces, the price of ninety dollars.

All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920's.

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

There is also a collection of her fungi paintings at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth, Scotland donated by Charles McIntosh.

Its collection became the core of the later Basel Museum of Art.

There is none on public display in Cambridge, but there is a large collection in the Toledo Museum of Art.

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

She was an accomplished landscape artist, some of whose paintings are in the collection of the Leanin ' Tree Museum of Western Art.

In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his " Anger of Achilles " ( also known as the " Sacrifice of Iphigenie "; the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

* Art of the States: electronic Small collection of electronic works by American composers

An example of English embroidery in silk and metal threads, contemporary Art Institute of Chicago textile collection.

The Whitney was founded in 1931, as an answer to the then newly founded ( 1928 ) Museum of Modern Art's collection of mostly European modernism and its neglect of American Art.

Gertrude Whitney decided to put the time and money into the museum after the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down her offer to contribute her twenty-five-year collection of modern art works.

* A few historic harpsichords from the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa ’ s only accredited museum emphasizing a decorative arts collection, is one of the nation's few museums located within a performing arts and conference complex, the Iowa State Center.

Delegates from the Museum of Bad Art are often on hand to display some pieces from their collection, showing that bad art and bad science go hand in hand.

The Museum of Modern Art described the Jeep as a masterpiece of functionalist design, and has periodically exhibited the Jeep as part of its collection.

* Wedgwood collection at the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art: a history of creation and a collection.

As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.

Birch has paintings at Penlee House and in the collection of Derby Art Gallery.