India’s remarkable cultural heritage features in the collections of museums around the world. Here are ten of our favourite open access digital collections — free to download, reuse and remix to your heart’s content. If we missed any, let us know in the comments!
1 . The Cleveland Museum of Art
Radha and Krishna meet in the forest during a storm, c. 1770 , India, Bengal, Mughal, 18th century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Indian and Southeast Asian collection is celebrated nationally and internationally. It comprises three broad areas: India proper, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia, and the collection covers the period of the entire artistic activity on the Indian subcontinent from the earliest (Neolithic) period until the 20th century.