Fratelli Alinari, founded in Florence in 1852, is the oldest company in the world still operating in the field of photography and visual communication. Its collection of over 5,000,000 photographs documents the history of Italy and the world from the mid-1800s to the present day, covering art, culture, industry, society, landscapes, and more.

A photographic archive with over 700,000 images.

Getty Images, Inc. is a photographic agency based in Seattle, USA. It is a leader in providing images for commerce and consumers, with an archive of 80 million images and illustrations, and over 50,000 hours of footage.

Our Ministry of Culture makes thousands of photographs available for your professional research.

The Alessandrina University Library is a historic library in Rome, founded in 1667 by Pope Alexander VII as the library of the Studium Urbis, the University of Rome. The DigitALE portal currently provides users with 37 periodicals, for which the library has digitised the issues it holds.

Discover the collections of the Spanish digital library.

Inaugurated in 2009, the World Digital Library was a project of the United States Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

You can access eBooks, audiovideo materials, and other digital resources of the Chiarini Library for free.

For more information: biblioteca@fondazionecsc.it

Discover the digital periodicals collection of the National Library of Rome.

Starting today, you can register online for free to access over 7,000 e-books and also consult the 7,000 journals on the MLOL platform.

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, it has been enriched every week with thousands of new features and today offers access to several million documents.

A digital library accessible for free.

Explore 1,062,075 digitized articles from the collections of the New York Public Library.

The museum today houses one of the most important collections of decorative arts in the world, divided into five chronological departments (Medieval/Renaissance, 17th/18th century, 19th century, Art Nouveau/Art Déco, etc.).

MET publications – preview and full text available online.

All of our exhibitions from 1929 to the present are available online.

The Textile Museum is the largest cultural centre in Italy dedicated to the promotion of both ancient and contemporary textile art and production.

Collections of the Paris Fashion Museum, with freely accessible digital content, videos, magazines, and much more.

A database providing online access to over one million catalog records and more than half a million images of objects from the museum's collections.

Google Arts & Culture is an online collection of high-resolution images of artworks displayed in various museums worldwide, as well as a virtual tour of the galleries where they are exhibited.

The Mam-e Fashion Encyclopedia: the most important collection on the world of fashion. Fashion houses, designers, personalities, and the entire vocabulary for fashion enthusiasts.

OAI is a search engine and viewer for high-resolution images of artworks from all over the world and from every historical period – works that are in the public domain or have a Creative Commons license allowing reuse.

Explore 58,643,200 artworks, artifacts, books, videos, and sounds from all across Europe.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library with millions of free resources, including books, movies, software, music, and more.

The Barilla Historical Archive was declared "of significant historical interest" on November 30, 1999, by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, through the Superintendence of Archives of Emilia Romagna.

The Archive section collects documents (deeds, writings, photographs, posters, graphics) in digital format, related to La Rinascente and organized by the source institution.

A vast collection consisting of film, photographic, and documentary archives.

The YouTube channel of the National Film Archive.