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Global Open-Access Museum Artwork Image Metadata (1000-2025)

About this data

A comprehensive metadata catalog of 10,000+ artworks from the worlds leading open-access museum collections. Each record includes artwork title, artist, creation date, medium, dimensions, department, culture/origin, classification, and direct image URLs. Sourced from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Rijksmuseum open-access APIs. Ideal for training image classification models, art historical analysis, cultural heritage research, and recommendation systems. All records are normalized to a common schema with consistent field naming and formatting.

Schema

Name	Type	Description
source_museum	string
object_id	string
title	string
artist_name	string
artist_nationality	string
artist_birth_year	string
artist_death_year	string
creation_date	string
creation_year_start	string
creation_year_end	string
medium	string
dimensions	string
department	string
classification	string
culture	string
period	string
image_url	string
is_public_domain	string
credit_line	string
country_of_origin	string

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