Visual resources course materials

Making good use of cultural heritage online is easy just by starting to use some of the largest aggregated databases that bring together millions of materials from hundreds of cultural organisations. 

Europeana

Europeana brings together European museums, archives and libraries and their digital collections. The service contains currently over 34 million images with 14 million openly licensed. 

Finna

Finna brings together Finnish museums, archives and libraries and their digital collections. The service contains over 100 collections and over 1.3 million images including organisations such as the Finnish National Gallery, Museum of Photography etc.)

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Aalto-Finna

Aalto University archives' digital collections

Visual materials related to theses, student works and historic photographs related to the activities of Aalto University and its predecessors are digitised and catalogued into Aalto-Finna. Use permissions are displayed alongside each image, some are available with a Creative Commons license and some are subject to permission.

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ARTstor  

Over two million images from over 280 collections including art history, cultural history, photography, fashion and design. Note the use permissions of each image carefully; most of the content is restricted for using in non-commercial learning and reasearch within the Aalto University, sharing the material further online is prohibited. 

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