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Museums and open art · by The Public Domain Review (UK Community Interest Company)

The Public Domain Review

An online journal that digs up strange and beautiful out-of-copyright art, books, films and audio, with curated collection posts and long essays that link to the source archives.

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

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For your project

Official API
No official API
Data download
No bulk download found
License
CC BY-SA 4.0 (site text); historical images: no rights asserted, see source institution CC BY-SA covers unquoted text of collection posts and most essays; images keep the rights label of the digitising institution
Commercial use
Commercial use with conditions
“free to reuse for any purpose, even commercially” publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/
Credit
Credit depends on the item
“attribute The Public Domain Review as the original source” publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/
Embedding
Embedding unclear
Using the website
Free

Read on The Public Domain Review'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: follow each post's link to the source institution and check that item's rights label before reusing an image.
  • Reused text: credit the author and 'originally published on The Public Domain Review', keep CC BY-SA, no paywall
  • Check the end of each essay: some essays use more restrictive terms
  • For images, check the digitising institution's rights statement; PDR labels are guidance, not legal advice

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/public-domain-review/agent.md before using The Public Domain Review.

What you can build

  • A daily 'curiosity from the archives' widget that links out to PDR collection posts and their source scans
  • A browser for public-domain images grouped by theme, using PDR posts as hand-picked seeds and pulling files from the linked source archives
  • A reader app that republishes CC BY-SA essays with the required credit line and same licence

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