Smithsonian Open Access allows you to download 3 million high resolution images free from its collection of images. These images are available for anyone to download and use free. These images include 2D as well as 3D items from the Smithsonian collection. All the history and art fans out there would love this website. These images can be used to learn, research, and explore to understand things better.
All the images provided on the website come under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which means you can use these images for personal or commercial use without the need of attribution. You can also transform the images and share them further without any issues.
Let’s look at this website in detail:
Use the link given at the end of this article to open the website. When you open it, you will see the home page like the one seen in the above screenshot. On this page you can watch a small video about this open access website.
Scroll down the page and you can read more about Open Access through its FAQs, usage statistics, and updates pages. Below this is a search box where you can search for images or 3D models by entering a search keyword.
As you scroll down you can see/ browse through remixes people have created using these images from the Open Access collection.
Below this you will find the highlighted images from the Smithsonian Open Access collection. This can be seen in the screenshot below.
You can click on any of the images to open them up and read details about it. The image will open on the left and the details of the image would be seen on the right, as seen in the image below.
Below the image you will see the license it comes with and download options are right next to it.
The image should mention that it is under CC0 then only you can download and use it, otherwise not. The download options on an image can be seen in the image above. You can download a image in TIFF, JPEG, Screen image, and thumbnail image format. You can also download the metadata file for the image.
At the top of the image along with the name of the image you will find options to share, email, print, and copy link of this page.
Overview:
Smithsonian Open Access is offering 3 million high resolution images to the public to be downloaded free. The images are provided under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which makes it free to download and use these images personally or commercially. You can search and explore this huge collection of images and learn more about things which are of interest to you.
Checkout Smithsonian Open Access here.
