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Global Museum Artwork & Image Metadata — 40 Museums, 12,500 Records (1400–2024)

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Comprehensive metadata dataset of 12,500 artworks and images from 40 major museums across 19 countries and 6 continents, spanning over 600 years of art history. ## Sources - **Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access**: Artwork metadata, classifications, and provenance data - **Rijksmuseum API**: Dutch and European art collection records - **Art Institute of Chicago API**: American and European artwork metadata - **Smithsonian Open Access**: Photography and mixed media collections - **Europeana Collections**: Cross-institutional European art records - **Museum APIs worldwide**: Tokyo National Museum, National Museum of China, National Gallery (London), Louvre, and 30+ additional institutions ## Key Features - **28 columns** including artist demographics, physical dimensions, digital image specs, and art-historical classification - **8 classification types**: painting (35%), photograph (20%), print (15%), drawing (12%), sculpture (8%), watercolor (5%), mixed media (3%), digital art (2%) - **30 art movements** from Renaissance to Contemporary, with period-accurate movement assignments - **Image metadata**: pixel dimensions, file sizes, dominant color analysis (hex codes), and aspect ratios - **Public domain flags**: works created before 1929 flagged for open use - **Museum-level detail**: accession numbers, departments, city/country/continent geography ## Use Cases - Art market analysis and valuation modeling - Museum collection diversity studies - Computer vision training set curation (using image metadata to filter appropriate records) - Cultural heritage digitization planning - Art history trend analysis across periods and movements - Geographic distribution of global art collections

Schema

Name	Type	Description
id	string
artist_name	string
artist_nationality	string
artist_birth_year	string
artist_death_year	string
museum	string
creation_year	string
classification	string
medium	string
genre	string
movement	string
department	string
height_cm	string
width_cm	string
depth_cm	string
dimensions	string
aspect_ratio	string
is_public_domain	string
image_available	string
primary_color_hex	string
dominant_colors	string
image_width_px	string
image_height_px	string
file_size_kb	string
accession_number	string
museum_city	string
museum_country	string
continent	string

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