Images from a wide variety of civilizations, time periods, and media. Sources include museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.

Over 200,000 objects from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Islands have been digitally imaged and are accessible through this website.

300,000+ images of archaeological objects, paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs.

Videos covering every region of the world. Includes documentaries, edited field recordings, interviews, and performances.

Streaming video supporting classes in the anthropology, the arts, business, health, media/communication, and more.

Includes newsreels, documentaries, and archival footage.

Includes published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent.