The Met Museum has a digital catalogue of nearly 500,000 images (of 270k items) that are completely open access and free to use for personal and commercial projects. [Link. Just make sure to keep the "open access" box checked on any searches.]
The Smithsonian has a digital catalogue of over five million images that are open access and free to use for personal and commercial projects. [Link!]
The National Gallery of Art has a digital catalogue of over 60,000 images that are open access and free to use. [Link]
The Art Institute of Chicago has a digital catalogue of over 60,000 images that are open access and free to use. [Link. Just make sure the "public domain" box stays checked.]
The Cleveland Museum of Art has a digital catalogue of over 40,000 images that are open access and free to use. [Link. Make sure "open access" stays checked.]
For the coders out there: All of these catalogues have API's so you can include their datasets in your projects! There's a few really cool projects that do that on this website.
So if you're like, "I want to make art but I don't know where to start!" Try collecting images of your favorite things from these collections, and make a collage!
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