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Digital Collections

An assortment of archival materials such as notebooks, photographs and ink and watercolor studies on a table

Explore the Library’s Digital Collections

Over 1.1 million pages of content from across The Met and partner institutions are freely available online, including Museum publications, dealer archives, manuscripts, trade and exhibition catalogs, images, and more.
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Featured Digital Collections

Historic black and white photo of The Met building with columns and arched windows, surrounded by bare trees and a quiet street in front
Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications
Digitized publications from the Museum's Libraries and Archives, including the majority of publications from 1869–1993 and a growing number of later titles.
A historic building with arched columns and two domed pavilions, with the Taj Mahal visible in the background across an open landscape
Rare Materials in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
Rare and important works held in the Thomas J. Watson Library and other curatorial department libraries at The Met.
A close-up of an old French art catalog page showing printed descriptions of artworks, with handwritten notes and numbers in the left margin
Auction Catalogs
Digitized catalogs from the 17th to the 20th century, primarily from American and European auction houses.
A stone Romanesque-style building with a tall square tower, rounded arches, and grouped windows, shown from the exterior of the Met Cloisters
Cloisters Archives Collection
The Brummer Gallery Records, photographic albums, and finding aids to archival collections held in The Cloisters Library and Archives.
A vintage fashion illustration of four women modeling 1920s dresses with dropped waists, decorative collars, bows, and flowing sleeves in various colors
Costume Institute Collections
Ephemeral and archival collections from The Costume Institute and its Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library.
A small, detailed painting framed by an ornate gold border, showing two figures in a landscape with trees, flowers, and distant hills under a blue sky
Fine Bindings
Photographs of Watson Library’s growing collections of decorated bindings.
A traditional Japanese painting of three birds: two perched among branches with orange berries on the left page, and one standing on the ground on the right, with handwritten Japanese text beside each bird
Japanese Illustrated Books
Seventeenth- to twentieth-century Japanese illustrated books from The Met’s Department of Asian Art and Watson Library.
A handwritten letter dated February 2, 1889, written on stationery printed with the address “51, High Street, Stourbridge,” addressed to Henry G. Marquand in New York, with neat cursive script filling the page
Manuscript Collections
Archival materials from Watson Library, Museum Archives, and several curatorial departments.