Museado
Digital Collections & Exhibitions
Search across museum collections from around the world — open-access institutions, museum-management platforms, and collections digitized nowhere else but here.
A growing breadth of collections
Museado brings many separate collections into one fast, searchable place.
Many sources, one search
We aggregate collections from large open-access museums, from museum-management platforms, and from institutions we work with directly — searchable side by side.
International, in your language
Many museums share their data only in their own language. We import it, translate it (machine translation), and make it searchable — so a collection described in Spanish or German is findable in English.
Collections seen nowhere else
Some collections were never visible outside the museum's own walls — stuck in Excel files and local drives. We help bring them online.
Explore with AI
Two AI helpers, depending on what you're looking for.
The Librarian
Coming soonNot sure where to start? The Librarian is a chat that helps you find the right collection — describe what you're interested in and it points you to collections worth exploring.
The Scholar
Looking at a specific document or image? The Scholar answers questions about that object — its context, its contents, what it depicts.
Where our collections come from
The data and images on this site come from many sources. The majority are open access.
Open-access museums
Museums with an open access policy publish their data and images under licenses that permit re-use — for example Cleveland Museum of Art, The Met, and the Smithsonian. We import their data; the majority of objects on the site come from these large institutions.
Museum Digital
museum-digital.org is a museum-management platform based in Germany, working with over 1,000 museums, mostly in eastern Europe. We import — via their API — the collections whose licenses allow it. Most of the museums and collections on this site come from here.
Direct relationships
Some collections had never been seen outside the museum's staff — the data lived in Excel and the images on a local drive. We worked with institutions like CMAS and Na Bolom in Chiapas, Mexico to make them visible and searchable. Small in number, but the collections we care about most, because they were otherwise unavailable.