I’m grateful for the Open Access images that we share every day at Objects and Order, whether on our homepage or in our Projects. Thank you to the museums and organizations all over the country that make so many of their collection images available for use!
If you celebrate Public Domain Day (January 1st), have ever written a reproduction request letter, or have spent time poring over the Hirtle Chart, then you know how truly amazing and generous these Open Access and Open Content programs are. Where else can you find the perfect professionally photographed sixteenth-century French drawing to illustrate an article?
Interior with a Man Writing on a Long Table (detail), 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Want to learn more about Open Access, Open Content, and Public Domain Images?
Check out these links for information about initiatives, programs, and policies:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Open Access at the Met”
- The Art Institute of Chicago: “Open Access Images”
- The National Gallery of Art: “Open Access at the National Gallery of Art”
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts: “Open Access at Mia”
- The Smithsonian Institution: “Smithsonian Open Access”
- The Cleveland Museum of Art: “Open Access”
- Getty (J. Paul Getty Trust): “Open Content Program”