Public Reference Resources

Features the treasures, stories and knowledge of over 2,000 cultural institutions from 80 countries at your fingertips.

The home of digital collections within Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, a division of Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies. The collections within e-Archives are digitized representations of physical items or accessible versions of digital-born materials.

The primary portal for engaging with our digitized collections and their descriptions, over 922,495 items and counting.

Over 50,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images for free access as more works are photographed and as works of art enter the public domain.

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex.

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to offer free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any copyright it might have.

The Eiteljorg Museum’s collection of Native American and Western Art is now online! Explore portions of the collection through our virtual database below. More items will be added regularly.

Explore more than 490,000 works—from around the world and throughout history—and the research and conversations they inspire.