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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Over 370k public-domain artworks from 5,000 years of art: paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, armour and decorative arts. Every image CC0 (Open Access), originals at full scan size.

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Licence: Set per image
Pricing: Free
Direct download: Yes, straight from the source
Subjects: Art, History & archives, People & portraits, Nature & landscapes, Animals & wildlife, Objects & still life
How it is searched: Official or public API
Images (counted November 4, 2026): 371,316

Biggest categories: paintings, photographs.

What The Metropolitan Museum of Art is

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has released over 400,000 images of public-domain works in its collection under CC0: paintings, prints and drawings, photographs, armour, ceramics, textiles and objects from every period and culture.

Best for

Paintings and old masters, Japanese prints, decorative arts, antiquities and early photographs, at print resolution.

Licence and what it means for you

Open Access images are CC0: free for any use, including commercial, with no credit required (the museum appreciates one). Only works marked public domain are searched here.

How Image Asset Server searches it

Through the museum's keyless Collection API: a search returns matching object ids (public-domain works with images only), and each result's record gives its title, artist, date, department and image links. Records are cached for a day.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the collections

Some of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art images picked for the curated collections below. Thumbnails load straight from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.