# Public Domain Image APIs: Museums, NASA and Libraries

Museum, space and library collections whose open images you can use in an app or a site, and the per-item rights you must still check.

## Open sources

- The Met Open Access: The Met's free, keyless JSON API and CC0 CSV dataset with object records for more than 470,000 artworks, including image URLs for public-domain works. [API, no key; commercial use ok] https://agentgid.com/resources/met-open-access/agent.md
- Rijksmuseum Open Data: The Rijksmuseum's open data portal: metadata for 800,000 collection objects, high-resolution photos of 600,000 of them, library records and vocabularies, served by keyless APIs, IIIF and bulk downloads. [API, no key; commercial use ok] https://agentgid.com/resources/rijksmuseum-data-services/agent.md
- NASA Image and Video Library: NASA's searchable archive of mission photos, videos and audio, with a free JSON API that returns metadata and direct links to each file in several sizes. [API, no key; commercial use with conditions] https://agentgid.com/resources/nasa-image-and-video-library/agent.md
- Europeana: A single search portal and set of APIs over records from European museums, libraries and archives, with CC0 metadata and per-item rights labels for the linked images, texts, audio and video. [API with key; commercial use with conditions] https://agentgid.com/resources/europeana/agent.md
- Library of Congress: The US national library's online collections of photos, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, recordings and books, with a keyless JSON API plus IIIF image, full-text and streaming services. [API, no key; commercial use with conditions] https://agentgid.com/resources/library-of-congress/agent.md
- 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. [no API; commercial use with conditions] https://agentgid.com/resources/public-domain-review/agent.md
- Internet Archive: A non-profit digital library of uploaded books, films, audio, software and web snapshots, with open APIs for search, item metadata and file download. [API, no key; commercial use with conditions] https://agentgid.com/resources/internet-archive/agent.md

## Libraries

- Sharp: High-speed image processing for resizing, converting JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF formats. https://agentgid.com/tools/sharp/agent.md

## Build ideas

- Art of the day from public-domain museum collections: https://agentgid.com/resources/ideas/art-of-the-day/agent.md
- Space photo wallpapers from NASA's archive: https://agentgid.com/resources/ideas/space-photo-wallpaper/agent.md