Library Image Database
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowA digital library of more than 3 million images across a variety of subjects, contributed by museums, artist estates, and a variety of institutions. As of 2024, Artstor is hosted on the JSTOR platform.
Open Access Museum Collections
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection: Public Domain ImagesMore than 200,000 public domain images of art and artifacts.
- Rijksmuseum125,000 high resolution digital images free to use and manipulate.
- Getty Open Content ProgramA subset of the Getty's broader image collections, freely available to be used for any purposes and without permission.
- Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLACMA offers 20,000 high-quality unrestricted images of art in its collection; these images are available for everyone to download and use freely.
- NGA Images, National Gallery of ArtNGA Images is a repository of open access digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. 29,000 images are available for non-commercial use.
- Paris Musées: Images in the Public DomainOver 100,000 images of works in the public domain from a group of fourteen smaller Paris museums (not including the Louvre or the Musée D'Orsay). Search by museum, artist, or even color.
Library Collections
- Library of Congress: Photos, Prints, DrawingsDivision of the Library of Congress that "holds more than 15 million items, including photographs, prints, drawings and architectural and engineering designs; more than 1 million of the items are available in digital form."
- Europeana ArtMore than 1 million artworks from European cultural heritage institutions.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaMore than 14 million items, including more than 5 million images, collected from libraries, museums, and archives into one searchable platform.
- Digital Newberry: CollectionsOver 1 million digital items from the Newberry Library in Chicago, newly available under an open access policy.
Web Collections and Aggregators
- Flickr CommonsProvides access to the treasures of the world's public photography archives - includes the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian, the Getty, and Oregon State University Archives.
- Google Art ProjectAn aggregate of 151 art collections from museums around the world set in a dynamic, user-friendly platform. View or create shared personal collections for research and inspiration.
- The Public Domain ReviewFeatures selected works from the public domain, with collections of books, images, film, and audio enhanced by topical or thematic essays.
Newly Available Collections
The following collections have recently been made available to the public. New collections will appear regularly.
- Searchable MuseumDigital collections from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture.
- Louvre: Collections"More than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix."
- Paris Musées: Images in the Public DomainOver 100,000 images of works in the public domain from a group of fourteen smaller Paris museums (not including the Louvre or the Musée D'Orsay). Search by museum, artist, or even color.