This beautiful image of civil rights hero
Frederick Douglass is just one of millions of files now freely available to the public at
Smithsonian Open Access! What a wonderful resource for artists, historians, graphic designers, or anyone who has the urge to create.
If you are really into wasting time, quite a few of the world's museums have turned to Open Access for all of most of their collections. What's cool about this list is the are all CC0 which means they are totally free of any rights or encumbrances... download, modify and reuse totally guild free :-)
ReplyDeleteRijksmuseum (
Met Museum
National Museum Sweden
Minneapolis Institute of Art (
The Walters Art Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Paris Musées
The Smithsonian
Birmingham Museums
NationalMuseum in Krakow
National Gallery of Denmark
Finnish National Gallery
NationalGallery of Art (
Nivaagaards Malerisamling
RISD Museum
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums (
Brighton & Hove Museums
Grand Rapids Public Museum
Wow! Excellent resources, Never for Ever--thanks!
ReplyDeleteI've never figured out how to make links work in Blogger replies, so that immediately gets my respect. However, this list is magnificent! All I can do is make this page a Favourite and then spend the rest of my time going through there. Better take some of those long-lifener* pills Big Pharma keeps hinting at...
ReplyDelete*Life-longener? I can't decide.