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Digital Repositories and Collections
NOTE: These repositories are made available by museums and other organizations on their websites, but many, if not most, of the images are not freely available for all uses (posting in Wikipedia, for example). When searching these repositories it is very important that you look for rights statements to know what rights you have to use or copy the image.
- ArtstorA digital library of more than two million images. Artstor includes items in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. It also provides a suite of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. *Images in Artstor are rights-cleared for educational use.*
- Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM)RIdIM is an international index of images and visual sources of music, dance, theatre and opera, supporting research in music iconography, organology, and other aspects of music performance and practice.
- Getty Images ArchiveA comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day.
- Rhizomes: Mexican American Art Since 1848The open-source portal harvests content from existing state and national digital compilers—Calisphere, The Portal to Texas History, the Smithsonian Collections Search Center , and the Digital Public Library of America—and a repository of documents digitized and made accessible by the International Center for Art of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Louvre Museum (Paris)The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Met (New York)375,000 of the works on the Met website are in the public domain and are available as open access.
- National Gallery of Art (London)Over 50,000 of the images from the museum are presumed to be in the public domain and are provided by the museum as open access.
- Philadelphia Museum of ArtAbout half of the museum's 240,000 art objects are included in this online collection.