The following institutions have adopted open-access policies, which allow you to download and use images of public-domain works in their collections without having to obtain permission or pay a fee. In ​many cases you are free to use these images however you wish, but sometimes there are additional restrictions and stipulations, so pay close attention to each institution's rights statement. Open-access policies apply only to the images, and not to the works of art themselves, so copyrighted works made since about 1900 are generally excluded. For more information, consult the Visual Resources Center's
Gui​de to Open Digital Image Collections and
Copyright​ page.​
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Birmingham Museums, Birmingham, England
British Library, London, England
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Paris Musées, Paris, France
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT​