prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes over 135 databases from institutes, research facilities, and museums with more than 4,176,000 records from the fields of art, culture, and history researchable on a common user interface.

Situated at the Institute of Art History of the University of Cologne, prometheus is supported by the non-profit association prometheus e.V. which promotes the ongoing developments of the digital media for science and research.



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Städel Museum Digital Collection

13 July 2026 | By: Corinna

As of today, 27,632 records from the public domain of the Digital Collection have also been integrated into prometheus via the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) interface provided by the Städel Museum for data exchange.

To get a good overview of the content in this newly integrated image database, go to “Advanced Search,” select this specific database from the list of museum databases (rather than searching all databases), and then start your search by, for example, using * in all fields. We hope you enjoy browsing.

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