Open Educational Resources (OER)

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. There are over 130,000 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute available through the Open Content Program. These include paintings, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, antiquities, sculpture, decorative arts, artists' sketchbooks, watercolors, rare prints from the 16th through the 18th century, and 19th-century architectural drawings of cultural landmarks.

High-resolution digital images of over 14,000 individual visual items, primarily prints, but also illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects, which display aspects of the Revolution. Images de la Révolution française is a benchmark image-base undertaken by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) on the occasion of the Revolution’s bicentennial in 1989 and hosted in conjunction with Stanford University. These materials were selected from across the BnF’s departments, and include thousands of images for the important collections entitled Hennin and De Vinck. Detailed metadata exists for the images, so that researchers can search by artist, subject, genre, and place.

NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. Over 50,000 open access digital images are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.

The British Library's Flickr page has millions of images for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of over 65,000 digitized books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Images include maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colorful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more.

This Open Access collection has more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works from the museum's collection. These images may be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for non-commercial use.

Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with hundreds of thousands of digital images, pictures, and books, in themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.

Millions of high quality and completely free images licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

Free download access to thousands of high-resolution images in their digital collection.

Collection of over four million digitized objects from the museum's collection. Most images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Access to works of art from over 2,000 museums.