Online Archives & Collections

Free source of music, video, text, and archival documents. Also contains archived webpages.

The Google Art Project provides access to galleries worldwide. Explore art from museums around the world by subject, country, artist, and more.

Explore this online museum of European art.

Sheet music in the public domain.

Contains broadside ballads of the seventeenth century. From the University of California Santa Barbara archive.

Contains transcribed historical books and texts from the eighteenth century. Made available from the Text Creation Partnership.

Contains text files of transcribed historical books and documents. Made available from the Text Creation Partnership.

An online collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays.

A collection of free online ebooks (primarily in the public domain).

Some transcribed historical books from the Early English Books Online database have been made freely available online. Made available from the Text Creation Partnership.

Provides access to millions of digitized texts from academic and research institutions across the world.

High-quality texts of Shakespeare's sonnets, poems, and plays for free. Available in five formats: XML, HTML, PDF, DOC, and TXT.