The holdings encompass all periods and media of art, with an emphasis on European, American, and Asian art. The slide collection of approximately 45,000 images includes photography, architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, decorative arts, and contemporary art. The slide collection reflects the art collection of the Worcester Art Museum and also has a broad range of images covering all civilizations from prehistory to the present. A set of slides accompanies the Janson History of Art textbook. Slides are bound in archival glass mounts and can be retrieved by medium, nationality, artist, and subject.
Slides are available for circulation to the general public for one-week loans.
The Virtual Worcester Art Museum, V-WAM, is an evolving collaborative project between the College of the Holy Cross and the Worcester Art Museum. The primary goal of the project is to present art and cultural resources in innovative ways by using emerging technologies from the fields of library management, museum collections management, and digital imaging. With financial support from the Davis Educational Foundation, the librarians and information professionals at each institution are developing databases in the college's DRA library system that will deliver art information online. The book catalogue should be on line by September 1999, and the image catalog should be on line by June 2000. The library cannot assume responsibility for any infringement of the copyright laws.