LibGuides: US 350: Gardens of Heian Japan: Find Images

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Cleveland Museum of Art
Search the CMA collection online.
British Museum
The British Museum’s database contains images of almost 2 million objects from the entire Museum collection.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
LACMA has about 20,000 high-res digital downloads for any use.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met recently released a vast archive of 400,000 (mostly) high-resolution digital Images online that you can download and use for non-commercial use.
Smithsonian Institute
This database contains over 7.4 million records with 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives, and libraries.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
NYPL's Digital Collections provide access to everything from books to videos, maps to manuscripts, illustrations to photos, and more.