StartArt

A quiet new tab page that opens with a single masterpiece from the world's museums.

StartArt turns every new tab into a quiet, full-screen visit to a museum. Each time you open a new tab, the page fills with a single masterpiece — drawn at random from the open collections of five world-class museums: • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) • The Art Institute of Chicago • The Cleveland Museum of Art • Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) • Victoria and Albert Museum (London) A small caption in the corner names the work and the artist, with a link back to the museum's own catalogue page. That's it. — No ads. No tracking. No widgets, weather, or to-do lists. — No account, no sign-in, no API key required. — Works offline once an artwork has been cached. Tall paintings and wide panoramas are revealed with a slow, gentle pan, so the whole work eventually comes into view. Open the settings (gear icon, bottom right) to choose: • Which museums you'd like to see works from • Which categories — Painting, Drawing & Print, Photography, Sculpture & Object, or Other Caching keeps the experience fast: the same piece stays for up to 12 hours, and the museums' lists of works are refreshed weekly. The Refresh button (↻ in the corner) gives you a new piece on demand. All collection data is fetched directly from each museum's public API. StartArt is not affiliated with any of these institutions; it simply links back to their catalogues so credit and context stay where they belong.