Library Guides: Museum studies: Find images and collections

Image collections

Search these databases to find images of items in museum and gallery collections:

Artstor
The ARTstor digital library contains more than one million digital images in the subject areas of painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download, organise and share images.

Artsy
Features images from the world's leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates and more.
Trove - Pictures, photos, objects
Search photographs, negatives, artworks, drawings, posters, postcards and other pictures, as well as physical objects such as puzzles, instruments and clothing.
Google Images Search

Note: Check the terms and conditions and cultural warnings on images before reproducing them in your assignment.

Search the online databases of museums and galleries to find information and images of objects in their collections.

UQ Art Museum (UQAM)
Specialises in Australian art from the colonial era to present, Pacific and international art and has collections of Chinese Antiquities (Nat Yuen Collection) and artists' self-portraits.
RD Milns Antiquities Museum
Contains objects from 4000BCE to 600CE and is the largest publicly available collection of ancient Mediterranean antiquities in Queensland.
UQ Anthropology Museum
This collection cares for a significant collection of art and artefacts including contemporary Pacific and Australian Indigenous artwork.
Fryer Library
UQ Library's dedicated collection of rare books, manuscripts and archives.