The Art Institute of Chicago Is the Latest Museum to Offer Open Access to Thousands of Images in Its Archive | artnet News
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"The Art Institute of Chicago is now offering unrestricted access to thousands of images—44,313 to be exact—from its digital archive. The release is part of the museum’s website redesign and the images have been made available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license....
The Metropolitan Museum of Art made all of the public domain works in its collection available online for both scholarly and commercial purposes in February 2017. Within just six months, the museum reported dramatic results: the Met’s website saw a 64 percent increase in image downloads and a 17 percent spike in traffic to the online collection. Users who downloaded photographs were reportedly spending five times as long on the site...."