Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met Collection online, The Costume Institute The deepest free garment database most researchers will ever use. The Costume Institute holds more than 33,000 objects, and since 2009 it has also been home to the Brooklyn Museum's renowned costume collection. Search the main collection, then narrow the results to The Costume Institute and your period. Works marked Open Access are images of public domain works released under CC0, free to download and reuse, commercial use included; works still in copyright, or whose status is unclear, are left out. The Watson Library's digital collections add a separate set of Costume Institute fashion plates, a second route to period illustration.