More and more museums worldwide are making the objects in their collections available to the public online. In this class session, we will experiment with a variety of digital tools that allow you to create and share your own digital exhibitions. These tools are often advertised to educators, but we will ask: what are their wider applications? How might they be employed to produce innovative creative projects?
Check out these digital collection tools at The Rijksmuseum, The Smithsonian Learning Lab, and Google Arts & Culture:
If you’d like to build your own curated interface with images in the public domain, you might want to look into the following articles, which list a wide array of resources:
- “Museums that Give Away Open Access Images of Public Domain Work,” Kathryn Goldman
- “Open Access Images,” The University of Warwick
- “A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images,” Open Education Database (Includes sites like the United States Department of Agriculture)
- “Open Access Resources,” Northcentral University Library
- “Free to Use and Reuse Sets,” Library of Congress
- “Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse,” New York Public Library
- “The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix,” Open Culture
- “The Public Domain Project Makes 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 Images & 100s of Audio Files Free to Use,” Open Culture
And last but not least, here are a few links for free, easy-to-use website builders:
