Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images, with Restriction

This is big!  On May 16,  the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it has made 400,000 images of artworks in its collection available for free download.  There’s one major caveat: the images are only intended for noncommercial, scholarly use.

We’ve cataloged the Met’s website in ODIN.  To get to the online collection, follow this path:

Collection    → → → →  Collection Online

Here’s a small sampling of what you will find …

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Storytelling Time

Storytelling Time: Native North American Art from the Collections at the University of North Dakota was edited by Arthur F. Jones and Lucy Annis Ganje and published by Hudson Hills Press earlier this year.

“This unique work examines the co-history of UND, founded in 1883, with the development of its Native North American art collections.  Editors and UND art professors Jones and Ganje … explore the importance of Native art to the university and how this art (primarily regional) is used as a tool for education.” (Choice, September 2010, p. 75)

Want to see this beautiful book for yourself?  We have a copy at Oversize E98 .A7 U55 2010.  Check it out!