metmuseum/openaccess resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access dataset containing metadata for over 470,000 artworks, released as UTF-8 CSV files under a CC0 license. It provides unrestricted commercial and noncommercial access to collection information, though images are not included.

Use cases

• download museum collection metadata as csv
• build an art search app with open data
• analyze artwork metadata for research
• train machine learning models on art collection data
• find public domain artworks for a project
• explore the met collection dataset

When to choose

• you need large-scale, freely licensed museum collection metadata
• you want CC0 data safe for commercial use
• you are doing data science or research on art history

When to avoid

• you need artwork images - they are not included in the dataset
• you expect complete, fully documented records - parts are incomplete
• you want to contribute fixes - pull requests are not accepted

Facets

dataset · maturity active

csv data-science search-engine data-science education analytics cross-platform open-access museum art cc0 cultural-heritage public-domain

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markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="metmuseum/openaccess")