American Antiquarian Society

Website: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/digitalaas Digital images catalogue: https://gigi.mwa.org Conditions: You may freely download and use any of these images for your own research, for teaching and presentations, or for non-commercial projects. There is no fee for this service; the Society's preferred credit line for all uses is: "Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society" Source: https://americanantiquarian.org/reproductions

NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Website: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/ Conditions: 'The NGV Collection contains approximately 75,000 works of art and approximately 90% of its records are available for viewing here. More than 30,000 images of works in the Public Domain are available to download at high resolution for free for publications and non-commercial use by clicking on the download icon. We are …

Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Website: http://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewDefaultHome?browseType=accessLevels Conditions: Thousands of our out-of-copyright images are now available for all to use under a Creative Commons Zero licence (CC0). More images are regularly being added. Images that are available for CC0 usage are marked as such at the bottom of their page. Source: search landing page.

State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Website: https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/explore/artworks Conditions: Partially free. Images may be used free of charge for some kinds of academic work. However, images for publications still need to be requested and paid for as usual. The State Hermitage permits the use of the pictures of items from its collections and also the views of its buildings and halls …

Creative Commons Search

Website: https://search.creativecommons.org Conditions: CCSearch is the newly-out-of-beta search engine for around 300 million images marked as being freely licensed for Creative Commons use, across the internet. Its potential is good, but brings up a lot of modern and amateur images from Flickr and the like, even though many of the source sites are museums, galleries …

The Christopher L. Jorgensen Collection

Website: https://somedarkplace.com Conditions: This site is an ongoing digital cataloging project of a private collection of cabinet cards and cartes des visites, photographic images produced between 1859 and 1900. This site is updated daily. Source: Many thanks to Christopher L. Jorgenson for alerting us to his private collection, and for putting high res images online.

Rawpixel

Website: https://www.rawpixel.com Conditions: For a free account, you must join to download, and are limited to 100 downloads per month. 'Our goal is to create the world’s best design resource from within the public domain. We are sourcing and digitally enhancing thousands of antique books and chromolithographic plates to unlock the inspirational design treasures of the past. As …

Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM)

Website: https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/?show_on_view=false Conditions: If the content is marked 'public domain', it can be used for any purpose. Permitted Use. You assume all risk and responsibility for your use of any Content obtained through the SLAM Websites. Content in the Public Domain. Some Content on the SLAM Websites is in the public domain (“Public-domain Content”). You may download …

PICRYL: The World’s Largest Public Domain Site

Website: https://picryl.com/ About: PICRYL is a search site linking together public doman image archives, many of which have been listed on this site previously, making it a very convenient central place to start searching for images. Images are available to download at the resolutions available from the provider. Please note that if you wish to …

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Website: http://art.famsf.org/ Conditions: free for low-res non commercial use   The Materials are made available for limited non-commercial, educational, and personal use only, or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws. Users may download these files for their own use, subject to any additional terms or restrictions which may be applicable to …

Birmingham Museum of Art [USA]

Site: https://artsbma.org/collection/ Conditions: Open Content Program The Birmingham Museum of art makes available digital images of works in the Museum’s collection believed to be in the public domain. Images are available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial. Users do not need to contact the Museum for authorization to use these images. They are …

Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields)

Site: http://collection.imamuseum.org Conditions: Free images available but hard to find. The official line is: 'Many images of public domain artworks are available for free download from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields' collection pages. Simply look for the download icon to access a high resolution JPG file and begin using the image for any purpose. If you require …

National Gallery of Denmark

Site: http://collection.smk.dk/#/en/ Conditions: The National Gallery of Denmark has initiated the campaign SMK Open to digitise and make available their collections with no restrictions 'During the first stage of the project, some 40,000 works will be made accessible. Approximately 15,000 of these will be available as high-resolution files that anyone can use for any purpose – …

USEUM – aggregate image site

Site: https://useum.org/download-artworks Conditions: Useum is currently a beta site collating free images from museums around the world, although many come through Wikimedia. The landing page offers The Rijksmuseum Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) National Gallery of Denmark J. Paul Getty Museum Indianapolis Museum of Art National Gallery of Art, Washington  

York Museums Trust

Website: https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/ Conditions: Collections Image Policy A few key points to remember about the images that YMT has published on its online collection: All images currently published in the online collection are free from known third-party copyright restrictions All images in the online collection are free to download All images in the online collection are …