Art & History

WePresent | Unexpected stories about creativity. Discover the best art, photography, music, and more from every corner of the globe. Part of WeTransfer.

The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history.ign history.sign archive built by everyone about everyone for everyone.

VIET GD is a casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Currently, there are 274 objects in this collection.

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

Sanbornfiremaps.com. A Digital Archive of the Art of the Sanborn Fire Maps. It’s an archive of over 3,500 individual images, all published before 1923, of almost all the art found within the Sanborn maps.

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.

From the city museum of Paris you can see many works in more than 14 Parisian locations. Finally, the presentation of works and exhibitions at the museum is presented at the Paris museum and online collections of the Paris museum are currently available.

From Byzantine altarpieces to pop art, learn all about paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and other works in the collection. Browse the collection and make connections among objects you know and newly discovered masterpieces.

Explore Smithsonian | Smithsonian Institution. Our vast collections and the research surrounding them are available to you online on a kaleidoscope of topics—from art to zoology.

DigitaltMuseum is a common database for Norwegian and Swedish museums and collections. It provides access to more than four million photographs, objects, works of art and buildings.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, home of the Dutch masters. The museum of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam. 800 years of Dutch history, with the great Dutch masters as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh.

Listing of the various subject categories available on Old Book Illustrations, which include Animals, Buildings & Monuments, Humor, Landscapes & Places and more

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | An extraordinary 60 sheet manuscript world map made in 1587 by Urbano Monte has been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University.

Artsy is the world’s largest online art marketplace. Browse over 1 million artworks by iconic and emerging artists from 4000+ galleries and top auction houses.

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world’s treasures online.

Collection | British Museum. Explore the Museum’s collection and journey through two million years of human history.

Search The Collection – The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.

High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds | simon sarris. Links to museum and other digital art collections

Spotlight on the Public Domain. The New York Public Library (NYPL) has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years.

Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most “notable people” around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. Click below to show people only from a specific category.

Learn World History visually with Interactive 3D Maps, Timelines, Images, and Videos with HistoryMaps. With over 3000 historical events in 150 stories, from the Crusades, Samurais, Islamic Conquests, Vikings, Roman Republic, you’ll find something interesting to discover or reread. Use the interactive map and timeline to learn where and when something happened. The beautiful images and videos make it even better

The history of user-interfaces

Best Historical Stock Photos and Where to Find Them. We help you find historical stock photos and vintage stock photos to license and download free. Download history stock photos right now!

Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free images scanned from old books. Searchable galleries include animals, plants, techniques, artists names, books titles, and much more…

The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web

Digital Curator allows you to explore the art collections of Central European museums and search for artworks based on specific iconographic motifs. You can select a motif or combination of objects, and reveal the artworks across the centuries.

Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. Recapturing History.