Digital life of a closed museum

Ants and drops and glorious details

Tangible collection

Addictive collection

When is ‘Open’ Open

The Rijksmuseum is all about art, about images.

We want to share these images with everyone using the internet. The technology is in fact about sharing.

That's why we have decided to put everything, free of use, up to date, in the best quality, on the internet. Knowledge needs to be shared.

Whatever you're looking for, you can download it and use it as you like.

-- Taco Dibbits, Director Collections Rijksmuseum

Our reality

Our reality

Rights and documentation

Choosing a license that fits

Public Domain

Persistent Identifiers

Rijksmuseum API

Open Data set

Public Domain works of Art

Technical access to our metadata

With URL to our online images

For app

builders, webbuilders, programmers…

To do whatever they want (CC0)

Results

3D collection

Creative reuse

The things we did and were proud of…