The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was in the limelight last year when the brand's new design by Wolff Olins was revealed that provoked the ire of many designers
Now he has revealed an interesting new initiative that it will be difficult not to be drawn to if you are an artist or a designer. It has updated its open access policy and has made public domain all artistic works from The Met collection under Creative Commons Zero license.
What this means is that anyone on the planet You can access and download the images of any of the public domain works in The Met's digital collection and do whatever you want with them. Whether it's making a weird mix, turning them into digital collages, or even selling them on t-shirts, it can be done.
And there is a large selection of works, since it is estimated that the public domain collection can reach 375.000 jobs from a total of 1,5 million objects across 5.000 years of culture from around the world.
It includes more than 8.000 paintings so that one is already in search, and new works are added in time. Just last year 18.000 new public domain works were added to the collection.
The way of look for a piece of art it's really easy. You have to search the online collection The Met and filter by public domain. You will be able to refine the search by artists, type of object, location, date and department.
The Met is also making available to all 440.000 works of art that the Museum has digitized Today; can be downloaded from GitHub.
It is not the first renowned institution that makes its collection open to everyone, like the one in Riksmuseum that we share from right here.
Here The Met.