{"id":994797,"date":"2026-08-11T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/994797\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:35:19","slug":"discover-millions-of-artworks-from-thousands-of-museums-with-this-huge-art-search-engine-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/994797\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Described by its anonymous creators as \u201cthe largest search engine for museum art,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/lastmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Last Museum<\/a> is a veritable trove of the the world\u2019s great works. It currently includes pieces by more than 290,000 artists, which are held across 4,903 museums and represent 304 cultures and nationalities. A lot of the works are in the public domain, such as a 19th-century <a href=\"https:\/\/lastmuseum.com\/art\/storage-bag-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">beaded bag<\/a> attributed to the Lakota, thousands of ancient Etruscan artifacts, and objects spanning thousands of years in places like Germany, Spain, India, and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking on any artifact will any available information about the artist, title, and date, plus a link to the museum collection it belongs to. If there\u2019s copyright attached to the images, they\u2019re available in accordance with fair use, which means they\u2019re available at a low resolution for browsing online but not reproducing, and they\u2019re shared strictly for educational and non-commercial purposes. \u201cWe currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world,\u201d the creators say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/last-museum-4-960x448.jpeg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-476674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/last-museum-4-960x448.jpeg\" alt=\"a screenshot of a search on The Last Museum for artworks in museum collections relating to Japanese woodblock prints of birds\" class=\"wp-image-476678\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/last-museum-1-960x444.jpeg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-476674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/last-museum-1-960x444.jpeg\" alt=\"a screenshot of a search on The Last Museum for artworks in museum collections relating to dogs\" class=\"wp-image-476675\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/last-museum-3-960x446.jpeg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-476674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/last-museum-3-960x446.jpeg\" alt=\"a screenshot of a search on The Last Museum for artworks in museum collections relating to architecture\" class=\"wp-image-476677\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hide advertising<\/li>\n<li>Save your favorite articles<\/li>\n<li>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Receive members-only newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Described by its anonymous creators as \u201cthe largest search engine for museum art,\u201d The Last Museum is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":994798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[26124,648,1032,1033,8297,407,171,116578,8160,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-994797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-history","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-design","tag-digital","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-interactive","tag-museums","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117078089119082036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}