Finding and Using Online Images Ethically

Over 57,603,456 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives

Digital access to Collection Highlights, Open Access Artwork, art objects, and other online features at The Met in NY City.

Search over 81,000 works available online from MoMA in Manhattan.

Includes: Art & Artist Files, Artists' Books, Hirshhorn Museum Library Audio Archive of interviews with artists, Seed and Nursery Catalogs, Shedding Light on New York archive.

Search millions of Smithsonian images

Features late 19th/20th-century American architecture from the Midwest including Chicago School, Prairie School and organic architecture. Architects such as Edward Bennett, Daniel Burnham, Bruce Goff, Bertrand Goldberg, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright and events such as the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the 1933 Century of Progress International Exposition are represented in a broad range of graphic and textual records.

Interviews of 20th century Chicago architects include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partners and associates, students and colleagues of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, members of the Chicago Seven, principals of second- and third-generation architectural and engineering firms.

The Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives has an extensive collection of documentary and photographic works on American Indians with an emphasis on indigenous people in the Greater Southwest.

The Photoarchive is a study collection of photographic reproductions of works of art by fourth to mid-twentieth century artists trained in the Western tradition. The digital collection currently contains almost 200,000 items.
Additionally, The Frick has Virtual Exhibitions available, with 360 virtual tours.

The digital collection contains bout 8,000 works of art from the United Stated and abroad, spanning traditional American folk art made at the turn of the 18th century to 20th/21st century works by self-taught artists and art brut creators.

Located in San Francisco, the digital collection features more than 18,000 objects.

Digital collection includes highlights and is searchable by curatorial area, chronology, object type.

Online collection containing more than 2300 artifacts comprised of documents, artifacts, maps, photos, and newspapers, from the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts.

Over 50,000 images and open data

More than 88,000 digital works in public domain (CC Zero license)

The Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) is a collection of over 9,000 images of Mimbres ceramic vessels, among the most spectacular and renowned prehistoric pottery in North America. Although some images are not available, the majority of the collection is viewable.

Images and documents from cultural heritage institutions across Minnesota.

Themed sets of images from the Library of Congress, such as natural disasters, skyscrapers, farms, shoes, hats.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. Digitized content ranges from photos, print, and film to audio recordings and other mixed material.

37,080,103 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Over 922,000 digitized items

A digital archive showcasing approximately half of the College's 2,000-item collection of Asian art, which includes ceramics, ivory, jade, and other artifacts.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Contains over 23,000 images, documents, and media detailing the history of contemporary craft in America.

Contains over a million digital objects created from the holdings of the University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historic maps, fine art, historic newspapers, scholarly works, and more.

The HBCU Digital Collection is a portal of historical images, newspapers, yearbooks, manuscripts, and audio-video materials from HBCU archival collections.