World art on any screen

Open Museum plays 1,150,676 public-domain artworks from the open-access collections of the world's museums on a TV, a computer, a tablet or a phone. Search them, browse them by artist, place, era and subject, or just press play.

Where the art comes from

We keep only each work's description and the address of its image. Your screen fetches every picture straight from the museum that holds it, at the size your screen needs. We do not copy, host or alter the images. Each museum's own credit line and licence come with every work: press I in Gallery TV, or tap Credit on the phone.

• Rijksmuseum: 699,931 works. Public Domain / CC0 (Rijksmuseum). Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 200,944 works. CC0 1.0 (The Met Open Access). Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• National Gallery of Art, Washington: 63,862 works. CC0 1.0 (NGA Open Access). Credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
• Art Institute of Chicago: 59,060 works. CC0 1.0 (AIC Open Access). Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art: 41,708 works. CC0 1.0 (CMA Open Access). Credit: The Cleveland Museum of Art.
• Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK): 39,501 works. CC0 1.0 (SMK Open). Credit: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
• Vintage Travel Postcards: 38,093 works. Public domain / no known restrictions (per item). Credit: Vintage Travel Postcards room.
• USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection: 7,577 works. Public domain (U.S. Government work). Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

No museum endorses Open Museum or any sponsor.

Music

Music is optional. Either your device makes a soft sound itself, or it finds an open-licence or public-domain recording in the Internet Archive or Openverse at play time, with the recording's own credit and licence. We host no audio.

Privacy

• No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no cookies.
• Voice is optional and only listens after you press the microphone, for one command. Your browser turns speech into text (Chrome sends it to Google; Safari may use Apple's servers). We record nothing and send nothing. Typing works too.
• Your settings (pace, music, family filter) stay in your browser's own storage.
• Pairing a phone sends only work numbers and settings between your own screens.