Bridgeman Education
A stunning gallery of over half a million copyright cleared for education images providing access to the visual culture of every civilization and period from prehistory to the present...
Bridgeman Education includes over half a million copyright cleared images providing access to the visual culture of every civilization and period from prehistory to the present. The images are gathered from museums, galleries, private collections, photographers and artists from across the globe.
Content includes images from every medium
- painting
- illustration
- sculpture
- photography
- maps
- objects
- artefacts
Special features
- informative key-wording makes images easy to find
- usable on touch-screens and interactive whiteboards
- simplified image searching through pre-created subject indexes
- detailed captioning
"We find Bridgeman Education an invaluable tool for our students… It allows them to gain direct access to high quality, copyright-cleared, original images that are clearly referenced. The thematic links help to lead students beyond their starting points to associated imagery, as well as into different fields that broaden the scope of their ideas. As the internet becomes clogged with blogs, copies and pastiches of artists’ works it is increasingly difficult for students to differentiate between original material and second rate sources, but by directing them via Bridgeman Education we are assured that they return to class with high quality images."
Oakham School, 2011
Relevance to the National Curriculum
Bridgeman Education provides broad image-based support for all subjects and key stages. Content covers Art, History, Culture, Science, Medicine, Anthropology, Politics, Architecture, Philosophy and Geography.
Support for teachers
The images can be saved online for storage and presentation purposes, or can be downloaded for use in projects and coursework.
There is a detailed user manual to enable subscribers to get the most out of the resource. This includes guidance on:
- searching
- viewing images
- saving and retrieving images
- creating a slideshow