Subject & Course Guides: Retail and Fashion Merchandising: RFM: Museums with Online Images of Their Archives

Museums with Online Images of Their Costume Collections

British Library
1M images, all public domain. Flickr photostream.
Europeana Fashion
A compilation of images from several European museums. "composed of 22 partners from 12 European countries, which represent the leading European institutions and collections in the fashion domain. The consortium will aggregate and provide Europeana with outstanding and rich material about the history of European fashion"
Getty Museum
87,000 images, all open access and public domain.
Kyoto Costume Institute
Really nice silhouette series as index to historical costume.
National Gallery of Art
35,000 images.
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art
400,000 images of items in their collection. If marked "OASC" that image can be used for educational purposes.

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"The museum announced on Tuesday (Feb 8, 2017) that it had changed its open access policy to allow free, unrestricted use of any images of artworks in the public domain, using the license designation Creative Commons Zero, known as CC0." - NYT
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
125,00 Dutch masters (Verneer and Rembrandt), plus sculpture, costume. Lets you do remixes of its art, too.
Victoria and Albert (London)
And finally: •THE LIST OF COLLECTIONS FROM FIT
Beautiful annotated list of museum collections for costume.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Just release 35,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in their collection.
V&A Fashion
The storied collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.