Open Content Program

Making images from Getty’s collections freely available for study, teaching, and enjoyment

Painting of a woman in a shimmering blue cloak, turned toward the viewer and holding a palette, brushes, and a small marble or plaster sculpture

An Allegory of Painting, 1661, Frans van Mieris the Elder. Oil on copper, 5 × 3 1/2 in. Getty Museum, 82.PC.136

About

Goal

The Open Content Program makes high-resolution images of public domain artwork from the Getty collections freely available, without restrictions, to advance the research, teaching, and practice of art and art history.

The initiative also aims to support and promote the open-access movement among museums and cultural heritage institutions in removing barriers to the use of cultural heritage images. 

Outcomes

Since 2013 images of over 150,000 images of public-domain art and archives in the Getty collections have been made freely available. Cataloging, digitization, rights review, and publishing of the collections are ongoing, adding more images to the Program monthly.

Images in the Open Content Program regularly appear in academic and commercial publications, products and merchandise, and movies and TV.

Contact the Team

  • Getty Museum Rights & Reproductions

    For inquiries about Open Content images from Getty’s art collection

    rights@getty.edu

  • Getty Research Institute Rights & Reproductions

    For inquiries about Open Content Program images from Getty’s archival and special collections

    reference@getty.edu

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