Douglas E. Welch<p>Smithsonian's Open Access now has over 4 million free-to-use images via Boing Boing [Shared]</p><p>If you need to use an image for your art, product, project, or any other reason, check out the Smithsonian's vast collection of Open Access images available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. I searched "cat," and it returned over 7,000 images, and every one I looked at was terrific.</p><p><a href="https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/29/smithsonians-open-access-now-has-over-4-million-free-to-use-images-via-boing-boing-shared/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/29</span><span class="invisible">/smithsonians-open-access-now-has-over-4-million-free-to-use-images-via-boing-boing-shared/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/publicdomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicdomain</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smithsonian</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/shared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shared</span></a></p>