Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria collection represents Australia’s cultural history.

Collection’s focus is on history and technology, Australia’s flora and fauna, transport, leisure, public life, migration and cultural diversity topics.

Watercolours, lantern slides, postcards, catalogues, maps, illustrations and paintings are available.

You can stumble upon all sorts of objects, such as Victorian celebrations booklet or postcard from the peak of Kosciusko mountain.

1. Visit https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/about.
2. Go to ‘Our Collections’.
3. Scroll down until section Zoology and choose Scientific Art & Observation.
4. Once you are in a description, click on ‘See all items in this collection’.
5. On the left choose ‘Has Images’ > Yes.
6. Upper menu choose: Order by Quality.
   Now you can see relevant collection items.

Direct link
1,114 images on 29/09/2019.

Notice:
Digital scans vary in quality.

If you wish us to curate this collection for creators, make it searchable by keywords and easy to use, please consider supporting our platform.

If you wish us to curate this collection for creators, make it searchable by keywords and easy to use, please consider supporting our platform.

Not all digital scans in this collection are under an open licence. Open licence is applied only to those digital scans where the original work is believed to be in the public domain in Australia. Where digital scan is under an open licence, it is available to be downloaded in high resolution.

A. How to find them?

1. Use a filter:
2. Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’)
3. Make sure that on the left menu section Image licence you chose Public domain

OR

B. Check each image individually:

1. Go to the image page
2. See if there is ‘Public Domain (Licensed as Public Domain Mark)’ notice.

More information by the provider (on the right side):
Collections

Not all original works in this collection, which are under an open licence and available to download in high resolution, are in the public domain in the European countries. 

This is because the Museums Victoria is in Australia and guided by Australian copyright law. It applies open licence to digital scans where original works are believed to be in the public domain in Australia. 

How to find images which you can reuse in most of the European countries? 

There is no filter by date.

You need to check each image individually:

1. Go to the image page
2. Identify all the authors and contributors
3. Find the death date of the last living author (dates are not available – you need to do your own online research)
If the last living author has passed away more than 70 years ago, most likely, his/her works are in the public domain in most of the European countries. 

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However, if you intend to use images for commercial purposes you might want to do additional checks to assess any risk. 

Please note, it is always your personal responsibility to make sure the original work is out of copyright in all countries where you distribute your new creative works. The supplier of the digital scan cannot guarantee this. 

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Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’) where you can choose grid view or a list with/without image.

You can change the number of results shown per page.

You can download page results in csv format (metadata only).

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1. Go to the image page.
2. There you can find multiple images.
3. Click ‘Full screen’.

Go to the image page:

• Collection names
• Collecting areas
• Artist
• Author and date of publication
• Classification
• Category
• Discipline
• Many other scientific descriptions

1. Go to the image page.
2. Click on ‘Reuse image’.
3. You can download:

• Small 500 px
• Medium 1500 px
• Large 300 px

Artist name, Title, Date. Museums Victoria Collections. Open licence (e.g. CC0 ) + a link

Share your new creative works using hashtags #RevivoStories #MuseumsVictoria @MuseumsVictoria!

Attribution guidelines are based on goodwill. They are not legally binding, but they are a secret way how to:
– Say ‘thank you’ to the most friendly for creators museums, archives and libraries.
– Encourage the release of new open collections for creativity.
– Inform and equip your fellow creators with new powers.