How to find public domain museum images
Channel: Open Context - The Alexandria Archive Institute
Date: 18/03/2021

A short video guide on finding public domain museum images. You can read the blog post about this video here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/2021/03/23/digital-museum-research-challenges-and-lessons/
The English transcript of the video is available here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Transcript-to-video.pdf

Read about the ethics, citation, and image licenses in our "3 Essentials in Museum Collections Research" here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Resource_3-ESSENTIALS-IN-MUSEUM-COLLECTIONS-RESEARCH-.pdf

Explore our other educational resources here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/resources/

Find out more about the Digging Digital Museum Collections Project here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/digging-digital-museum-collections/

Museum objects in the video:
Unknown Artist, "Scarab" from Lisht/Egypt. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.1.272. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545088

Unknown Artist, "Seated figure" from Tell Halaf/Syria. On loan from the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany. Exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibit "Alien Property" by Reyyane Tabet (2020-2021), New York. 
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/827295?&pkgids=597&exhibitionId=%7bCE166536-5C84-4097-A79E-BA5DBBC17F00%7d&oid=827295&ft=*&fe=1

Unknown Artist, “Statue of a Victorious Youth” from Greece. Now in the Getty, 77.AB.30.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/7792/unknown-maker-statue-of-a-victorious-youth-greek-300-100-bc/?dz=#68788f24efae95841e79b70adf1a8cc84857209

Jacob Lawrence, "Fulton and Nostrand" 1958. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.158.
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.158 

Kuznetsoff Pottery (Manufacturer), "Sugarbowl" from Russia. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 1988-96-3-a,b. 
https://www.si.edu/object/sugarbowl%3Achndm_1988-96-3-a_b

Unknown Artist, "Coin" from Amathus/Cyprus. Now in the British Museum, 1929,0811.66.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1929-0811-66

Unknown Artist, “Neo-Babylonian panel with striding lion” from Babylon/Iraq. Now in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 34.652.
https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/panel-striding-lion-34652

Unknown Artist, “Black-Figure Lekythos: Wedding Procession with Hermes and Apollo” from Greece. Now in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1994.293.
https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=13143477
Thank you also to the Cincinnati Art Museum (we forgot to thank them in the video!)