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Museum Sites


British Museum, London 
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx
Browse or search over 2 million objects from the museum collection. High-resolution images for educational use and academic publications may be downloaded for free.

​George Eastman Museum | Online Collections
https://www.eastman.org/collections-online
Explore the George Eastman Museum's collections online. More than a quarter of a million objects from the photography, technology, and George Eastman Legacy collections are now searchable, and more of the museum's vast holdings will be added on an ongoing basis.

Getty Trust Open Content Program
http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html
The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.

Guggenheim Museum, New York 
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online 
Searchable database of 800 artworks from the permanent collection.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://collections.lacma.org/
More than 20,000 high quality downloadable images of artworks from their encyclopedic collection believed to be in the public domain—available without restriction, and free of charge.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections 
The user can download high-resolution images for educational use and academic publications free of charge. 

Musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/en/moteur-de-recherche-oeuvres
Offers a simple search of the museum's collections and access to several national databases.  Links to the museum's Atlas database of exhibited works where low-resolution images can be downloaded.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/collections
Searchable database of the museum's collections consisting of almost 450,000 works.  Users may save objects in a favorites section and also license images from the museum.

Museum of Modern Art, New York 
http://www.moma.org/collection/search.php 
The MoMA site provides access to over 10,000 artists and 60,000 works in their collection. 

National Gallery of Art, DC 
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html
Data records for more than 110,000 objects, and 50,000 image files are available on the National Gallery collection website. 

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
http://pahma.berkeley.edu/delphi/
Search objects in the museum based on location, function of object, how they were made, how they are decorated, and by keyword.  Images can be saved to sets.

Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
High-resolution, public domain images are available for download for free and without restrictions.

Smithsonian Institution
http://collections.si.edu/search/
Search over 9 million catalog records of museum objects, and library & archives materials. More than a million of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.

Walters Art Museum
http://art.thewalters.org/
Thousands of high-resolution images available for download.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ 
Over a million data records are searchable, although fewer images are available. Free high-resolution images available for educational use or academic publications.

Yale
http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/
Over 250,000 assets from across Yale's collections.




Website images permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org 
Chinese, Tikshna-Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Gilt bronze
Suzuki Kiitsu, Morning Glories (detail), 19th C., Japanese, Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, & gold on gilded paper
Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid (detail), 16th C., Italian, Oil on canvas 
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, American, Utah, mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water 
Greek, Carnelian scaraboid, early 5th century B.C., Carnelian, gold
French Medieval from Limoges, Chasse of Champagnat, ca. 1150, Copper, engraved and gilt; champlevé enamel
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (detail), 1787, French, Oil on canvas
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