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Places to Find Openly Licensed Images

  1. Art Institute of Chicago
    More than 50,000 images of works in the collection
  2. Belvedere, Vienna
    Roughly half of an 18,600-strong collection, including the world-famous group of works by Klimt and Schiele
  3. Birmingham Museums Trust
    Nearly 2,500 images from across the eight municipal collections looked after by the trust. More are gradually being added.
  4. Cleveland Art Museum
    30,000 works from the collection
  5. Harvard Art Museums
    More than 200,000 images available from the university’s collections of 250,000 objects
  6. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
    More than 100,000 images from the museum and the Getty Research Center archives
  7. Kunstmuseum Basel
    More than 4,100 photographs of works in the public domain
  8. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
    Millions of images from the national archives
  9. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Nearly 20,000 images from the collections
  10. Mauritshuis, The Hague
    The full collection of more than 800 works, mainly by Dutch and Flemish masters
  11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    More than 400,000 images
  12. Minneapolis Institute of Art
    Access to more than 50,000 works
  13. Munch Museet, Norway
    One of the world’s largest single-artist collections: 1,150 paintings and some 18,000 prints, free to download
  14. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
    Around 30,000 images from New Zealand’s state collections
  15. Národní galerie Praha
    The Czech Republic’s national collections in Prague
  16. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
    More than 51,000 works in the public domain
  17. Nationalmuseet Danmark
    More than 50,000 images from 20 institutions across Denmark
  18. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
    6,000 images – most of the collection – via Wikimedia Commons
  19. New York Public Library
    180,000 items, free to share and reuse
  20. Paris Musées
    320,000 images from 14 Parisian institutions, including the Petit Palais and the Catacombs
  21. Pinakotheken, Munich
    More than 10,000 works from the Bavarian State Paintings Collections – free to download and reuse
  22. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    360,000 images – more than a third of the collection
  23. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    As of 26 February 2020, 2.8m digitised images from across the Smithsonian’s multiple museums, research centres, libraries and archives are freely available online.
  24. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
    Full access to out-of-copyright works. Strong on Munich-based painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries
  25. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
    Around 15,000 works (of a quarter of a million) have been photographed in hi-res, with all public domain images free to download and use
  26. Wellcome Collection, London
    Thousands of archival images from the science collections at the museum and library
  27. Yale University
    Some 250,000 images from the university collections, including the Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art

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