Art Museum Image Consortium
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Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) was a non-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia. It was in existence between 1997 and 2005, when its members decided to disband it.

AMICO provided licensed digital versions of artwork available by subscription to universities and colleges, public libraries, elementary and secondary schools, and museums. It represented works in the collections of AMICO members.

It has to some extent been replaced by ARTstor
ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. The ARTstor Digital Library also includes a set of software tools to view, present, and manage images for...

, which was established in 2004.

Members

AMICO members as of 2005:
  1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...

    , Buffalo, NY
  2. Art Gallery of Ontario
    Art Gallery of Ontario
    Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...

    , Toronto, Ontario
  3. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  4. Asia Society#Museum, New York, NY
  5. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    Brooklyn Children's Museum
    The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a general purpose museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Founded in 1899, it was the first museum in the United States and some believe, the world, to cater specifically to children and is unique in its location, predominantly a residential area...

    , Brooklyn, NY
  6. Center for Creative Photography
    Center for Creative Photography
    The Center for Creative Photography , established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Garry...

    , University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  7. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
  8. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  9. Dallas Museum of Art
    Dallas Museum of Art
    The Dallas Museum of Art is a major art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas...

    , Dallas, TX
  10. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
  11. Denver Art Museum
    Denver Art Museum
    The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center.It is known for its collection of American Indian art,and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 68,000 works from across the world....

    , Denver, CO
  12. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
  13. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in California.-External...

    , San Francisco, CA
  14. The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, New York, NY
  15. George Eastman House
    George Eastman House
    The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...

    , International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
  16. Indianapolis Museum of Art
    Indianapolis Museum of Art
    The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The museum, which underwent a $74 million expansion in 2005, is located on a campus on the near northwest area outside downtown Indianapolis, northwest of Crown Hill Cemetery.The...

    , Indianapolis, IN
  17. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....

    , Los Angeles, CA
  18. Louisiana State Museum
    Louisiana State Museum
    The Louisiana State Museum , founded in New Orleans in 1906 and still headquartered there, is a complex of National Historic Landmarks housing thousands of artifacts and works of art reflecting Louisiana's legacy of historic events and cultural diversity....

    , New Orleans, LA
  19. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  20. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  21. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
    Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
    The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is a contemporary art museum in the Place des Arts complex, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The collection includes over 7,000 works of art by more than 1,500 artists , covering contemporary art in Quebec in particular and Canada in general, as well as...

    , Montréal, Québec
  22. Museum of Contemporary Art
    Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
    The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego , in San Diego, California, USA, is an art museum focused on the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art from 1950 to the present.-History:...

    , San Diego, San Diego, CA
  23. Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...

    , Boston, Boston, MA
  24. National Gallery of Canada
    National Gallery of Canada
    The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...

    , Ottawa, Ontario
  25. National Museums of Scotland
    National Museums of Scotland
    National Museums Scotland is the organization that runs several national museums of Scotland. It is one of the country's National Collections, and holds internationally important collections of natural sciences, decorative arts, world cultures, science and technology, and Scottish history and...

    , Edinburgh, Scotland
  26. The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
  27. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the oldest art museum and school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th and 20th century American paintings,...

    , Philadelphia, PA
  28. Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Philadelphia Museum of Art
    The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...

    , Philadelphia, PA
  29. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
  30. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...

    , San Francisco, CA
  31. Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Smithsonian American Art Museum
    The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of American art.Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art that covers all regions and art movements found in the United States...

    , Washington, DC
  32. Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
  33. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
  34. Walker Art Center
    Walker Art Center
    The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...

    , Minneapolis, MN
  35. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
  36. Whitney Museum of American Art
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

    , New York, NY


Former AMICO members that withdrew before 2005:
  1. J. Paul Getty Museum
    J. Paul Getty Museum
    The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California...

    , Los Angeles, CA
  2. Library of Congress
    Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

    , Washington, DC
  3. The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec
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