Paris Musées

Paris Musées Collections The online catalog of the City of Paris museums, which include the Palais Galliera, the city's fashion museum. Since January 2020 it has offered high-definition images of public domain works under a CC0 license, free to use without restriction, and the release now runs to about 150,000 images. The catch for dress research is that the open release was built around two-dimensional works out of copyright, such as prints, drawings and photographs, so check the terms on each garment record, and works still under copyright show only in low definition. Fashion plates, illustrations and period photographs are the richest finds here.