How to find public domain museum images

How to find public domain museum images

Open Context - The Alexandria Archive Institute

A short video guide on finding public domain museum images. You can read the blog post about this video here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/2021/03...​ The English transcript of the video is available here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/wp-cont...​ 

Read about the ethics, citation, and image licenses in our "3 Essentials in Museum Collections Research" here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/wp-cont...​ 

Explore our other educational resources here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/resources/​ 

Find out more about the Digging Digital Museum Collections Project here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/digging...​ 

Museum objects in the video: Unknown Artist, "Scarab" from Lisht/Egypt. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.1.272. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...​ 

Unknown Artist, "Seated figure" from Tell Halaf/Syria. On loan from the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany. Exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibit "Alien Property" by Reyyane Tabet (2020-2021), New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...​ 

Unknown Artist, “Statue of a Victorious Youth” from Greece. Now in the Getty, 77.AB.30. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/...​ 

Jacob Lawrence, "Fulton and Nostrand" 1958. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.158. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007...​ 

Kuznetsoff Pottery (Manufacturer), "Sugarbowl" from Russia. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 1988-96-3-a,b. https://www.si.edu/object/sugarbowl%3...​ 

Unknown Artist, "Coin" from Amathus/Cyprus. Now in the British Museum, 1929,0811.66. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...​ 

Unknown Artist, “Neo-Babylonian panel with striding lion” from Babylon/Iraq. Now in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 34.652. https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/col...​ Unknown Artist, “Black-Figure Lekythos: Wedding Procession with Hermes and Apollo” from Greece. Now in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1994.293. https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/a...​ Thank you also to the Cincinnati Art Museum (we forgot to thank them in the video!)