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BOOKS

853 works, 15 shelves

ART

Paintings, sculpture, drawing

ARCHITECTURE

Buildings worth studying

MUSEUM SCANS

23 open collections

853 books, grouped by shelf — plus art, architecture, and museum scans. Filter by category, search by title or author. PDFs roll out over time; each row shows whether a copy is on file yet.

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Philosophy

158

Psychology

89

Mysticism

87

Gnostic & Occult

97

Systems

58

Asia

45

Anthropology

33

Global

47

Science

39

Artist

20

Economics & Finance

22

Engineering

53

Biology & Body

15

Geopolitics & Sovereignty

38

Scripture & Sacred Texts

52

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Museum scans & open collections.

Free, legal, and remarkable: museums and communities that publish their collections openly — 3D scans, high-resolution paintings, and archives you can download and study. Every link opens in a new tab, so this page keeps your place.

3D scans

4

Smithsonian Open Access 3D (opens in a new tab)

3d.si.edu

3D scans of artifacts, fossils, and spacecraft — free to download.

Scan the World (opens in a new tab)

myminifactory.com

Community 3D scans of sculptures from museums worldwide, printable.

Three D Scans (opens in a new tab)

threedscans.com

Sculpture scans in full detail, free for any use.

Sketchfab Cultural Heritage (opens in a new tab)

sketchfab.com

3D-scanned heritage objects, viewable right in the browser.

Paintings & museums

7

The Met Open Access (opens in a new tab)

metmuseum.org

Hundreds of thousands of artworks, public domain, high resolution.

Rijksmuseum Rijksstudio (opens in a new tab)

rijksmuseum.nl

Dutch masters in extreme resolution — free to download and reuse.

Getty Collection (opens in a new tab)

getty.edu

Ancient sculpture, manuscripts, and photography — open-content images.

Art Institute of Chicago (opens in a new tab)

artic.edu

Over 50,000 artworks released CC0, with a clean public API.

Paris Musées (opens in a new tab)

parismuseescollections.paris.fr

Over 100,000 works from the Paris city museums, free to reuse.

Louvre Collections (opens in a new tab)

collections.louvre.fr

The Louvre’s full online catalog, searchable.

Google Arts & Culture (opens in a new tab)

artsandculture.google.com

Gigapixel artworks and virtual museum walks.

Books & texts

6

Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)

archive.org

Millions of books, recordings, films, and websites — preserved and lendable.

Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)

gutenberg.org

70,000+ public-domain classics, every format, forever free.

Standard Ebooks (opens in a new tab)

standardebooks.org

Public-domain classics, carefully and beautifully typeset.

Open Library (opens in a new tab)

openlibrary.org

A catalog of every book — with free borrowing.

The Public Domain Review (opens in a new tab)

publicdomainreview.org

Curated wonders from the public domain, with essays.

Library of Congress (opens in a new tab)

loc.gov

The largest library on earth, digitised collection by collection.

Maps, images & archives

6

Europeana (opens in a new tab)

europeana.eu

Aggregated digital heritage from thousands of European institutions.

David Rumsey Map Collection (opens in a new tab)

davidrumsey.com

Over 130,000 historical maps, scanned in extreme detail.

Biodiversity Heritage Library (opens in a new tab)

biodiversitylibrary.org

Centuries of natural-history books and illustrations, free to read.

NYPL Digital Collections (opens in a new tab)

digitalcollections.nypl.org

Prints, photographs, maps, and manuscripts from the New York Public Library.

Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)

commons.wikimedia.org

The free media library behind Wikipedia — over 100 million files.

NASA Image Library (opens in a new tab)

images.nasa.gov

The universe, photographed — free to download.

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