Open Access Images

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Open Access Image Museums and Libraries in U.S.

Art Institute of Chicago
artic.edu/open-access-images

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
barnesfoundation.org/collection/open-access-and-copyright

Cleveland Art Museum
clevelandart.org/art/collection

Harvard Art Museums
harvardartmuseums.org/collections

Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
search.getty.edu/gateway

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
loc.gov/collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
collections.lacma.org

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
metmuseum.org/art/collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art
artsmia.org/arts-artists/explore

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
nga.gov/open-access-images.html

New York Public Library
nypl.org

Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA
sciencehistory.org

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
si.edu/collections

Yale University, New Haven, CT
artgallery.yale.edu
britishart.yale.edu

Stanford University Library, California
Library.stanford.edu/rumsey


Open Access Image Museums and Libraries Outside U.S.

Kunstmuseum, Basel
More than 4,100 photographs of works in the public domain

Mauritshuis, The Hague
The full collection of over 800 works mainly by Dutch and Flemish masters

Narodni galerie Praha, Prague

Nationalmuseet Danmark
Over 50,000 images from 20 institutions across Denmark

National museum, Stockholm
6,000 images, most of the collection, via Wikimedia Commons

Paris Musees
320,000 images from 14 institutions

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
360,000 images, over 1/3 of the collection

Science Museum Group, UK
Images from five museums in the UK including the Science Museum, National Science and Media Museum, Science and Industry Museum, National Railway Museum, Locomotion

Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Strong on Munich-based painters of 19th and 20th centuries

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
About 15,000 images of works in the collection

Welcome Collection, London
Thousands of archival images from the science collections


Other Sources of Images

Wikimedia Commons–A collection of over 80 million freely usable media files
commons.wikimedia.org