19 free sites
Free Museums & Digital Collections
19 free sites in Museums & Digital Collections. Every one was opened and checked before it went on the list.
- Google Arts & Culture artsandculture.google.com Top pick
Tour museums and zoom into high-resolution artworks and stories from thousands of cultural institutions.
- The Met Collection metmuseum.org Top pick
Search the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Hundreds of thousands of public domain images are free to download.
- Library of Congress loc.gov Top pick
The US national library's online collections: millions of digitized photos, maps, newspapers, recordings and manuscripts.
- British Museum Collection britishmuseum.org
Search millions of object records from the British Museum, with photos, spanning the whole of human history.
- Cooper Hewitt Collection collection.cooperhewitt.org
The online collection of the Smithsonian's design museum: objects, drawings, and textiles spanning centuries of design.
- Digital Public Library of America dp.la
Search millions of photos, books and records from libraries, archives and museums across the US in one place.
- DigitalNZ digitalnz.org
Search over 30 million items from New Zealand libraries, museums, and archives in one query.
- DigitaltMuseum digitaltmuseum.org
A shared online catalog for museums in Norway and Sweden, with millions of photos and objects to browse.
- Europeana europeana.eu
Digitized art, books, film, and music from thousands of European museums, libraries, and archives.
- Florence Griswold Museum florencegriswoldmuseum.org
The home of American Impressionism in Old Lyme, Connecticut, with its art collection browsable online.
- Louvre Collections collections.louvre.fr
The Louvre's online database of its collection, with photos and records for hundreds of thousands of works.
- NYPL Digital Collections digitalcollections.nypl.org
Hundreds of thousands of digitized photos, maps, prints and manuscripts from the New York Public Library, many free to download.
- Rijksstudio rijksmuseum.nl
The Rijksmuseum's online collection. Download hundreds of thousands of works in high resolution for free.
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives library.si.edu
Digitized rare books, archives and online exhibitions from the Smithsonian's library system, free to browse.
- Smithsonian Open Access si.edu
Millions of images and 3D models from the Smithsonian's collections, released for anyone to download and reuse.
- The Public Domain Review publicdomainreview.org
Essays and curated collections of strange and beautiful public domain images, texts and films.
- Trove trove.nla.gov.au
Australia's national digital archive: digitized newspapers, photos, maps, and records searchable in one place.
- Wellcome Collection wellcomecollection.org
A free museum and library in London about health and human life, with a large digitized collection of books, images and manuscripts online.
- WikiArt wikiart.org
An online encyclopedia of visual art with hundreds of thousands of artworks, sorted by artist, style and period.
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