Te Papa releases over 30,000 high resolution images for free

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has announced they have released over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in high resolution. 

You can search for and download them at Te Papa's Collections Online: http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/

17,000 images have no known copyright restrictions so are downloadable for any use, free of charge. Another 14,000 images are available under a Creative Commons licence:

CC BY-NC-ND http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

"We hope that by making these images available for re-use, we are empowering people to use images of the collection in teaching and learning, research, innovation and new forms of creativity."

 

Read more at Te Papa's blog:

http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/05/30/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections 

Met Museum releases thousands of digital images for non commercial use

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has announced that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use - including in scholarly publications in any media - without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new digital files are added on a regular basis.

For more information see http://metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2014/oasc-access 

Visual arts open content news

77,000 new images released by the Getty via its Open Content Program:

The Getty Research Institute has just added more than 77,000 high-resolution images to the Open Content Program from two of its most often-used collections.

The largest part of the new open content release—more than 72,000 photographs—comes from the collection Foto Arte Minore: Max Hutzel photographs of art and architecture in Italy.  Foto Arte Minore represents the life’s work of photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911–1988), who photographed the art and architecture of Italy for 30 years. 

Also added to the Open Content Program are 4,930 images representing tapestries dating from the late 15th to the late 18th century that are in European and American collections.  

Learn more at: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/77000-images-of-tapestries-and-italian-monuments-join-open-content-program/ 
 
PLUS!


A new resource for History of Science and Natural Sciences:

Digital Special Collections, the image database of the Research Library at the American Museum of Natural History, New York:

On April 28, the American Museum of Natural History’s Research Library will open a rare window into the 145-year history of the Museum with the official launch of an online image database for Digital Special Collections featuring more than 7,000 archival images at http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/. Many have never before been seen by the public, including archival photographs, rare book illustrations, drawings, notes, letters, art, and Museum memorabilia documenting a wide variety of Museum efforts in New York and around the globe, including the creation and installation of exhibitions and far-flung scientific expeditions dating back to the 19th century. 

Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images

Over 100,000 high resolution images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements are now freely available through Wellcome Images.

Drawn from the Wellcome Library's vast historical holdings, the out of copyright images are being released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

This means that they can be used for commercial or personal purposes, with an acknowledgement of the original source (Wellcome Library, London). All of the images from the Library's historical collections can be used free of charge.
The images can be downloaded in high-resolution directly from the Wellcome Images website for users to freely copy, distribute, edit, manipulate, and build upon as you wish, for personal or commercial use.

Rijksmuseum releases 125,000 collection images online

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has released 125,000 collection images online, with their re-use actively encouraged by the Museum.

More information can be found at artdaily.org here:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=58639#.UJLM8hgXIy4

Link to the Rijksmuseum here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio

Thanks to ACADI for this news.