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Students from the Master of Science in Data Visualization program at Parsons' School of Art, Media, and Technology were assigned a challenging task: interpreting data from The Met's Open Access collection to design thoughtful, creative, and often eye-opening presentations.

Through the Museum’s Open Access program and the release of its public API, the Met collection is empowering users and data science in new and innovative ways.

On the third anniversary of the Met's Open Access program, this article reviews the significant impact the program has made.

A review of what happened in the six months after The Met launched its Open Access initiative, which made available all 375,000+ images of public-domain works in The Met collection under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon discusses the Museum's move to Open Access, an important and exciting milestone in The Met's digital evolution.

In February 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) made over 375,000 images of public domain artworks in its collections available for use and remix with Creative Commons Zero. Identifying data for the museum’s entire publicly available digitized collection was also made available on GitHub development platform. In this interview, Europeana's Camille Tenneson asked Neal Stimler, Program Manager for Content Partnerships, about what was driving these projects.

This report details the various approaches of 11 heritage institutions from the US and UK of making available images of public domain works from their collections. The institutions operate within various levels of openness and provide access in many ways, and it details the decision-making process leading to each institution's approach.

This paper follows on Kristin Kelly's 2013 report, 'Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access, a Study of 11 Museums,' and documents trends and insights that have emerged over the past decade among early adopters of open access programs. It also highlights the growing expectation both private and public funders have regarding the requirements of open access as a condition for grant recipients.