The Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Online resources
UNIVERSITY SUBSCRIPTIONS
Artstor: Extensive digital library of 2.5+ million images, including the Department of Art and Archaeology Collection.
Artstor IAP: Within Artstor, Images for Academic Publishing offers publication-quality images free of charge.
Bridgeman Education: Database of 1.2+ million images from museums, galleries, institutions and private collections. Princeton community: email Visual Resources to obtain higher resolution files.
MUSEUMS
The British Museum: Free image access, with registration, to over 1 million images published under a Creative Commons license. Larger images are available for publication upon request.
ColBase: Colbase is a database of collections in the four national museums of Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, and Kyushu.
E-museum: View high-resolution images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by Japan’s national institutes for cultural heritage.
Europeana: Access to images from over 3,000 European cultural institutions. Information about image use clearly indicated.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open access to over 406, 000 high-resolution images, many of which are also in ARTstor. Access upon request to images under copyright or other restrictions.
National Palace Museum, Taipei: Open access to 100,000 images in the NPM collection. Users are welcome to download all images on this site for free and unlimited use without application procedures.
Smithsonian Image Gallery: Open access to thousands of book illustrations, photos, drawings, and other images from across the Libraries. For publication, user must comply with all terms and restrictions.
OTHER
Google Arts and Culture: View over 32,000 high-resolution images from international museums. Zoom in on details and virtually tour galleries.
Google Images: Filter for free-to-use images and large images. Pay attention to access restrictions.