Online Image Collections
Museums
Museums with image collections or highlights online, browse by subject and region.
See also: Art Resources
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
A searchable database of around 1.2 million images provided to the public by the Library of Congress.
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
Collection of art images licensed for non-commercial educational use to academic institutions and libraries.
The NYPL Picture Collection Online
Over 30,000 images from books, newspapers, and magazines plus prints, photographs and postcards covering over 12,000 subjects.
NYPL Digital Gallery
More than 700,000 prints, photographs, drawings and other visual materials arranged by subject.
Art Renewal Center
An online museum with high resolution images of fine art by master artists.
Web Gallery of Art
An online database with images and information related to European Renaissance art.
Web Museum, Paris
Image archive of famous paintings also includes historical comments and artist biographies.
Brigham Young University Digital Collections
Includes close to 9,000 selected images from the BYU Museum of Art collection, plus historical photographs, art history images, and more.
Wriston Art Center Galleries Digital Collection
Online collection of early modern American and European art including German Expressionism, Oceanic artifacts, Japanese prints, and ancient Byzantine coins.
Iowa Gallery
Over 15,000 digitized artworks from the University of Iowa including an extensive collection of African art.
VADS: Collections
A searchable database of over 100,000 visual art images, free for educational use in the UK.
CGFA: Virtual Art Museum
Collection of images by master painters, browse by artist name, nationality or year.
The National Gallery: Picture Library, London
Allows access to images in the National Gallery's collection, and grants rights and clearances for image use.
Treasury of Fine Art
Provides access to fine art images from The Ohio State University, and licenses image use, includes photography, prints, memorabilia, illuminated manuscripts, and more.
Insight: Visual Collections
More than 300,000 images from over 50 collections including fine art, photographs, maps and more.
Digital Archive of Art
Online images of 18th - 20th century paintings and sculpture, as well as American and European architecture provided by Boston College.
WorldImages
A database of more than 70,000 images that are free for non-profit educational use. Search or browse by subject.
Bridgeman Art Library
Resource for fine art images for reproduction.
UW Libraries Digital Collections
Image collections from the University of Washington Libraries, focuses on rare and unique materials that represent Pacific Northwest and Seattle history.
Matapihi
A collection of objects, photographs, and sounds from New Zealand's libraries, archives, museums, and galleries.
Chester Beatty Library: Image Gallery
Collection of East Asian, Islamic, and Western images.
Harvard University Library Collections
A selection of online collections from Harvard University.
Collage
City of London Library & Art Gallery Electronic, a database of Guildhall's visual collections.
VMC: Image Gallery
View paintings, photos, and objects online from Canadian museums.
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