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Museum Sources

Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images and data from across their 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
The Met Open Access Collection
Explore more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the The Met collection, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Images from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse.
Travel Texas - Video and Image Library
A selection of high-resolution photographs, logos and b-roll footage is available for editorial usage through an online media library.

Artstor Public Collections
Artstor’s ever-growing Public Collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos and documents. Anyone may view and download these collections; no subscription or login required.

Photos For Class
Access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes with accurate image citations.
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Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flickr and Pixabay SafeSearch and our proprietary filters. Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms.

Creative Commons - All photos shown are, to the best of our (and Flickr's / Pixabay's) knowledge, licensed by Creative Commons for public use.
Pics4Learning
A curated image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.
Pixabay.com
Over 2.6 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music shared by the Pixabay community.
Unsplash
The Internet’s source of freely-usable images.

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