Museums and open art · by Google (Google Cultural Institute)

Google Arts & Culture

Google's website and app showing artworks, archive items, online exhibitions and Street View museum tours published by more than 3,000 cultural institutions in over 80 countries.

Gigapixel zooms let you get closer to the brushstrokes than you could standing in the gallery, and you can walk through museums you may never visit.

License unclear

Open artsandculture.google.com ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API: API unclear
Data download: Not stated
License: Google Terms of Service; image rights stay with each partner institution Images and stories published by partners; no blanket reuse license found
Commercial use: Commercial use unclear
Credit: Not stated
Embedding: Embedding unclear
Using the website: Free

Read on Google Arts & Culture's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

No public developer API was found; link to item pages instead of copying images, and follow the source museum's own open-access program if you need reusable files.
Do not scrape or rehost images; rights belong to each partner institution.
Link to item pages and credit the holding institution; get reusable files from the museum's own open-access program.

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/google-arts-and-culture/agent.md before using Google Arts & Culture.

What you can build

A lesson-plan or travel-guide page that links out to relevant Google Arts & Culture stories and museum tours
A 'find the open-access original' helper that sends users from an artwork to the owning museum's own collection site

More in Museums and open art

All 6 →

The Met Open Access Five thousand years of art in one open API: you can pull a Van Gogh's full record and high-res image with a single unauthenticated request. API, no keyDownloadCommercial OK Rijksmuseum Open Data You get Dutch Golden Age masterpieces and hundreds of thousands of lesser-known objects as open, linked data with zoomable images, most of it free even for commercial use. API, no keyDownloadCommercial OK WikiArt Its tagging by style, genre and movement lets you trace how art changed across centuries, from well-known masters to artists few people have heard of. APINon-commercial The Public Domain Review Every post is a rabbit hole into forgotten prints, diagrams and oddities from old libraries, each traced back to the institution that holds the scan. Commercial: conditions Open Culture It is a curated map of free culture: one list can lead you from a lecture series to a silent film to a recorded poetry reading. License unclear

Something wrong or out of date? Tell us.