Credits & Thanks

The museums

Every artwork you can search, save, and hang in your galleries comes from a museum's open-access program — collections these institutions have made freely available to the public. We're deeply thankful to:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Rijksmuseum
• Harvard Art Museums
• Smithsonian Open Access — including Smithsonian American Art Museum, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (National Museum of Asian Art), National Portrait Gallery, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of African Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Anacostia Community Museum.

Mooseium is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these institutions. Rights to individual works remain with the institutions and rights-holders; please consult each museum's open-access terms before reuse.

The libraries

The reading room is powered by public-domain books and the volunteers and organizations who digitize and catalog them:

• Project Gutenberg — tens of thousands of public-domain books, digitized by volunteers, that you can read here in full.
• Gutendex — the open API that makes Project Gutenberg searchable.
• Open Library (a project of the Internet Archive) — descriptions and metadata that enrich each book.

Music & sound

Background music and ambient sound are sourced from Pixabay. With thanks to the artists:

• Jazz Restaurant Music by Alex Morgan — via Pixabay
• Relaxing Coffee Shop Music by Alex Morgan — via Pixabay
• Perfect Sunset Lo-Fi Music by Sonican — via Pixabay
• Hopeful City Lo-Fi Music by Sonican — via Pixabay
• Soft Chill Coffee by Mellowtape Nights — via Pixabay
• Moonlit Serenity: Deep Sleep Ambient by ChrisDjYogi — via Pixabay
• Timeless Love Acoustic Loop by Sonican — via Pixabay
• Art Gallery Museum by Franzian-Deo — via Pixabay
• Rain Sound by Boon Freak — via Pixabay

Built with open source

Mooseium stands on a lot of shoulders. Thanks to the maintainers of Next.js, React, Supabase, three.js with React Three Fiber and drei, and the many open-source libraries in between.