Art Resources: Open Access: Museum, Image, Video & Media Resources

"The Saint Louis Art Museum’s collection includes more than 34,000 objects spanning 5,000 years of history and cultures. More than 5,000 objects are currently searchable online."

"The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States."

"[P]airs essays and works of art with chronologies,
telling the story of art and global culture
through the Museum’s collection."

"Getty advances and shares the world’s visual art and cultural heritage for the benefit of all."

Search drawings, prints, manuscripts, paintings, art objects, papyri, and more.

"[O]ne of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art."

"[F]ounded as a gift to the nation, serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. Our collection of more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art and showcases some of the triumphs of human creativity."

"The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation’s first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character, and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries."

The Tate Gallery has great resources about works of art and artists. Have fun exploring.

"Bring art and artists into your classroom in new and exciting ways." Search by: resource types; art forms and techniques; themes.

This is the YouTube channel of James Payne, "a curator, gallerist, and a passionate art lover. I am on a mission to demystify the art world and discover the stories behind the world’s greatest paintings and sculptures. Each episode will focus on one piece of art and break it down, using clear and concise language free of 'art-speak'. "

A treasure trove of educational videos featuring distinguished artists, drawings, collections, writers, books, musical pieces, and more.

Videos on American print culture, virtual public programs, book talks, and more.

"The museum's OPEN CONTENT database is a wellspring of art that is bound to inspire myriad new creative reuses. It includes Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s IRISES and many more treasures waiting to be explored." Explore 88,000+ free images!

"Explore more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the The Met collection, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction." Filter by Object Type/Material, Geographic Location, Date/Era, Department. To identify these images look for the Open Access icon at the lower left of the image."