Informacje praktyczne

You do not need to create an account on our website to be able to download on your device photographs of objects. In addition to photos, you can also download lists of your search results as PDF or CSV files!

Yes! We encourage you to further use (private or commercial, creative or scientific) of the visual documentation of the objects published on our website. Directly below the thumbnail of each visual documentation of the object you will find information on what license it was made available on, and therefore on what terms you can use it.

Using the website is completely free, including the functions available after creating an account. The website was created thanks to co-financing from European Funds and from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. It was implemented under the Operational Program Digital Poland for 2014–2020.

If you don't know where to start, we encourage you to read the proposed objects for a good start, which you can find on the home page. If you are involved in scientific research or you are interested in a specific topic, use the search engine. Advanced filters can help you with advanced queries.

Logged in users can do more! With account you can:

• create and share your own galleries,
• write notes for objects, collections and educational paths,
• save and follow the search criteria that interest you,
• get notifications about new properties matching your saved search criteria.

Have fun!

Objects can have visual documentation made by five different techniques:

• documentary photography – registering the object's appearance as objectively as possible,
• gigapixel photography – a photograph of two-dimensional objects, which in fact consists of many high-resolution photographs, combined into one large image. It allows an impressive image zoom,
• GIS map – allows you to document and reflect on the map various spatial resources, e.g. archaeological sites, interiors and facades of buildings, tree stands or old maps superimposed on modern ones,
• 3D model – models of three-dimensional objects, sculptures or furniture that can be rotated and viewed in changing lighting,
• RTI image – a technique in which flat objects are registered in changing lighting, which allows you to better observe their interesting texture.

The visual materials have been published under Creative Commons licenses. They define the rules on which you can further used and processed them. Under the visual materials of the objects, in the learning paths and exercises related to them, you can find the symbols of such licenses:

• CC0 – No copyrights – this is a sign and, at the same time, a tool that enables the “waiver” of copyright to a work (including personal rights) in those countries where it is legally possible.
• CC PDM – Public Domain Mark – is a designation used to identify a given work as belonging to the public domain. You can use, distribute and change such a work, even for commercial purposes, without the author's consent.
• CC BY – Attribution – This license allows you to copy, alter, distribute, perform and perform a work only with attribution. It is a license which guarantees the broadest freedoms of the licensee.
• CC BY-SA – Attribution-Share Alike – This license allows you to copy, alter, distribute, perform and perform the work as long as the derivative works are licensed under the same license. This is a license used by Wikipedia and its sister projects.
• CC BY-NC – Attribution-Non-Commercial Use – This license allows you to copy, modify, remix, distribute, perform and perform a work for non-commercial purposes only. However, this condition does not apply to derivative works (they may be licensed under a different license).
• CC BY-ND – Attribution-No Derivatives – This license allows you to distribute, perform, and perform the work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided you keep the work in its original form (no derivative works).
• CC-BY-NC-SA – Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike – This license allows you to distribute, perform and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only, and as long as the derivative works are also licensed under the same license.
• CC-BY-NC-ND – Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives – This license allows you to distribute, perform, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only and as long as you keep the work in its original form (no derivative works). This is the most restrictive license.

It may also happen that the museum has not released the license information. Then you will see the message: No license information available, contact the museum. Find a contact to the museum on its website or write to us.