Images

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. With access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection—from our world-renowned icons to lesser-known gems from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.

The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer over 65,000 books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Over time more public domain collections will be added.

Search for images that are available for use under Creative Commons licensing.

This digital collection provides access to over 3,500 daguerreotypes in libraries, museums, and archives across Harvard.

Portal to European museum and library collections.

Search a database of millions of photos licensed for reuse.

Images from books in the Internet Archive.

The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.

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.

The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.

Browse more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.

Free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work.

Wikimedia Commons

Repository of images of from Dutch arts and history. Maintained by the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands.

Free stock photos that need no attribution and can be manipulated as you want.