Visit the website and choose which museum you would like to visit. Enter your email and they will email you a ticket (good for 2 people) There are many local museums participating. You can search for participating museums by state.
Palomar Arts Media Lab
AML Blog
ArtStor Subject Guides
ArtStor has a collection of pdf subject guides available for download and highlighting aspects of certain collections and offering search tips on subjects. Some of the topics include Architecture, American Studies, Music History, Mid Evil Studies, Maps, Decorative Art and Photography among others. They also have a new series on their blog called Teaching with ArtStor This week the topic is “Re-historicizing Contemporary Pacific Island Art” by Marion Cadora, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
John La Farge, Girls Carrying a Canoe, Vaiala in Samoa, 1891. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
LACMA Image Collection
In this collection will find a growing body of high resolution images (between 10–40 MB) from our encyclopedic collection which we believe to be in the public domain—available without restriction, free of charge.* From ancient sculpture to Impressionist masters, from scroll paintings to Mesoamerican pottery.
This image library represents our commitment to making the breadth and depth of the museum’s collection broadly accessible online and to the widest possible audience. LACMA plans to continue adding to this library over time.
Screenshot from the LACMA Image Library website
The Movie Stills Collection Website
This website is put together by a web designer named Christian Annyas.It showcases the title still from films from the 1920’s until now. It is pretty interesting to look at the design of the stills.
Digital Image Collection wiki
This wiki was begun by a graduate student doing an internship at Wellesley College. It has lists of resources you can use to find a variety of images. The copyright restrictions may vary but they are usually noted on the image websites. Here is an example of one of the entries on the wiki:
“Mark Harden’s “Artchive” contains images of many essential works of art covered in any survey course. You won’t find many obscure artists or rare works here, but if you need a high-quality reproduction of one of the essentials this is an excellent resource. The site is easy to navigate by the alphabetical listing of all the artists and periods/styles on the left of the screen. Each entry has some text and a list of images towards the bottom.”
Need help scanning?
The website ScanTips talks about the basics of scanning as well as what it refers to as scanning 201…more complex scanning topics. There is a section on many common scanner software and some other related links as well. Its a great resource whether you are new to scanning or an old pro.
Images from the environment
If you are looking for an image of animals, landscapes, plants etc… then this website is a great place to start http://life.nbii.gov/dml/home.do Many of the images are public domain and they are organized very well. It gives three choices for download (large, med, and web and the rights are clearly listed on the page.
Historic Cities
The website Historic Cities is a partnership between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library. It contains historical maps, literature, and documents, and the sites creators are interested in user contributions. Maps of the Holy Land, Ancient Jerusalem and maps of over 50 countries are available in high and low resolution.
Images from the History of Medicine/ Image Database
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). The purpose of the IHM database is to assist users in finding and viewing visual material for private study, scholarship, and research. The images present a comprehensive and fascinating visual record of the history of medicine, from 16th-century woodcuts to early dental cartoons to posters dealing with the AIDS epidemic. It is the users’ responsibility to determine compliance with the law when reproducing, transmitting, or distributing images found in IHM. Users can search by catagory or browse all images. More information about the collections can be found here
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library’s collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more. It is a great resource! The site allows you to browse by subject, names, or topic. Some of its collections include:
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
Illustrated books from the 16th century to the early 20th depicting the animals of the world. Based on the scholarly bibliography of the same title by Miriam Gross, published in Biblion, The Bulletin of The New York Public Library in 1994.
Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900
Thousands of art and scientific prints, illustrating medicinal plants, spectacular garden flowers, exotic tropical blooms, trees and ferns. Includes many different printmaking techniques, from woodcuts to stipple engravings to color-printed lithographs.
If you like the site the library has recently made some of its collection available in the Flickr Commons
