A guide to Internet sites for research, aimed specifically at children aged 5 to 15 years of age.

Art | Music

Art

• Anime Web Turnpike - Your #1 guide to Anime & Manga Internet World.
• Animeworld - Akemi's Anime World is a general interest anime (Japanese Animation) site, with reviews, links, casts, and even song lyrics of various anime.
• Art Gallery of New South Wales - The official website of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, including information on their collection, events & services.
• Art Safari - an adventure in looking for children and adults.
• Artcyclopedia - The Fine Arts search engine.
• Artlex Art Dictionary - for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
• ArtServe - Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin (but increasingly good on Kyoto, Nara, and East Asia).
• Dictionary of Australian Artists Online -  You can search 6901 biographies by over 400 biographers, and watch for 464 new biographies currently in progress. You can discover themes and patterns from 45 years of art scholarship. You can create new biographies, comment or revise those previous, and write alternative interpretations on artists already covered. 
• Exploring themes in American Art - This program consists of ten illustrated essays, image pages, a list of featured artists, a glossary, and a bibliography containing suggested references.
• Futurism - Futurism art.
• National Gallery of Australia - The official website of the National Gallery of Australia, including information on their collection, current exhibitions & events.
• Timeline of Art History - Created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this site explores art history from prehistoric times to 1800 AD.
• Web Gallery of Art - a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 11,600 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available.

Music

• Australian Music Website - General Australian Music Links including reference sources, equipment retailers, studios, and subject specific sites (jazz, metal, folk).
• Classical composers - Information on several classical composers such as Brahms, Mozart and Bach as well as many others.
• Instrument Encyclopedia - A sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments.
• Music Education at DataDragon - Come and explore some parts of music with the DataDragon online tutorials and guides.
• Music Education Online - Links to musical instruments and much more.
• The New York Philharmonic Kidzone! - interactive site about orchestral music.
• The San Francisco Symphony Symphony Kids Site - interactive site about instruments of the orchestra.
• Worldwide Internet Music resource - Links to musicians, music, composers, groups etc.