Curationist Information

Curationist enables users and communities to seek, find, and reimagine cultural heritage through our vast archives of open access images, radical work with metadata, and editorial features shining light on marginalized histories of art and objects. Despite sharing a commitment to open culture, many institutions face significant limitations in their ability to broaden public access to their collections through digitization. Obstacles include lack of funding, limited staff resources, and limited capacity to implement digitization initiatives. Curationist enables users to search across institutions, large and small, to find open access digital heritage. Since its launch in 2022, Curationist enables global users to search more than 4.4 million images of works from the open access collections of museums and archives worldwide, thus connecting curious minds to the history, stories, and ideas that these works inspire.