Museums and open art · by Open Culture, LLC
Open Culture
A blog and set of hand-made directories, running since 2006, that point to free online courses, films, audiobooks, ebooks and language lessons hosted elsewhere on the web.
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 unclearFor your project
- Official API
- No official API
- Formats
- RSS
- Data download
- No bulk download found
- License
- site terms (all rights reserved) Open Culture's own posts and directories; linked media belongs to third parties
- Commercial use
- Commercial use unclear
- Credit
- Not stated
- Embedding
- Embedding unclear
- Using the website
- Free
Read on Open 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 API and the terms ban scraping; only link to posts or read the RSS feed (https://www.openculture.com/feed/rss2), and go to the original host of each course or film.
- Do not scrape or copy Open Culture's lists or posts; the terms forbid scraping and reproduction
- Linked courses, films and books belong to their original hosts; check each host's license separately
Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/open-culture/agent.md before using Open Culture.
What you can build
- A personal reading/learning tracker that links to Open Culture lists without copying them
- A feed reader card showing the latest Open Culture posts from the public RSS feed, with links back
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