Open Access at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the most popular art museum in the United States.
CultureCraft is like a simple painting program, but instead of painting with colors, you are painting with fragments of visual culture from renowned museums and libraries such as the Met, the Smithsonian, and the New York Public Library.
Featured collections
Smithsonian Open Access
The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the world's largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
NASA Image and Video Library
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the global leader in space exploration.
Citizen DJ at the Library of Congress
Audio provided by Citizen DJ at the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world.
About this project
CultureCraft was created by Brian Foo as a way to amplify discovery and reuse of open access visual material from museums and libraries from across the country. The tool itself is intentionally minimal with a very low barrier to entry. Its lack of features and controls encourages the user to focus on play and serendipity rather than trying to make something in particular.
The tool itself is open source. If you are an organization with an open access visual collection that you would like to use in a tool like this, feel free to contact me!