May 2026
Free Image/Art Resources
Some Links
- Art Institute of Chicago via their open access images
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- The Cleveland Museum of Art via their Open Access Images
- Getty Museum Collection via their free artwork collection
- Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Open Access
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art Collection
- Getty Open Content
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- The Met via their Open Access images
- Missouri Historical Society
- MoMa.co.uk
- National Gallery of Art
- Saint Louis Art Museum
- Paris Museum
- The Walters Art Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Public Domain Image Archive
- Whitney
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- High Museum of Art
- MOMA
- JSTOR
- NASA Images
- NASA Images on Flickr
- Brooklyn Museum
- National Museum of Art
- Library of Congress
- Artvee - a curator
- Heritage Library - a curator
Still Looking
If you've got other good ones with open access policies, let me know .
-a
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Endnotes
There are some sites like unsplash but I'm not putting them on this list. They have some free images but are largely ads for paid stock image sites.
There are also some sites out there that have deceiving ads trying to get folks to download and install various pieces of nefarious software. I'm not linking to those.