Entries 1–50 of 104 in this hand-curated edition.
Columns distinguish the human collection/catalog URL from the IIIF/API/documentation starting point. Where an institution has no stable public top-level IIIF Collection, the entry deliberately points to its catalog or official IIIF guidance rather than inventing an endpoint.
| # | Country | Institution / Service | Type | Public collection | IIIF / API start | Notes | Rights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | Stanford University Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Presentation v2 manifests at purl.stanford.edu/{id}/iiif/manifest; major founding adopter. | Mixed |
| 2 | United States | Harvard Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Most public digitized image/book objects expose manifests through iiif.lib.harvard.edu. | Mixed |
| 3 | United States | Harvard Art Museums | Museum / University | open | IIIF/API | Museum API exposes IIIF image URIs plus Presentation manifests/collections and annotations. | Mixed |
| 4 | United States | Yale Center for British Art | Museum / University | open | IIIF/API | Public collection uses IIIF/linked data; open-access images common, verify item rights. | Mixed/Open Access |
| 5 | United States | Yale Peabody Museum | Natural History Museum | open | IIIF/API | IIIF manifest available from collection records via IIIF/Mirador interface. | Mixed |
| 6 | United States | Princeton University Art Museum | Museum / University | open | IIIF/API | Collection records expose IIIF manifests through IIIF button. | Mixed/Open Access |
| 7 | United States | Princeton University Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Digital PUL and digital collections use IIIF for digitized material. | Mixed |
| 8 | United States | Cornell University Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium founding institution; multiple digital collections use IIIF. | Mixed |
| 9 | United States | University of Michigan Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Known IIIF adopter; resolve collection-specific manifests. | Mixed |
| 10 | United States | University of Minnesota Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; collection-specific IIIF endpoints. | Mixed |
| 11 | United States | University of Chicago Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; inspect digitized collections for manifests. | Mixed |
| 12 | United States | Dartmouth College Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; digital collections are discovery seeds. | Mixed |
| 13 | United States | Vanderbilt University Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member and global discovery seed. | Mixed |
| 14 | United States | UCLA Library Digital Collections | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF manifests exposed from digital collection items. | Mixed |
| 15 | United States | National Gallery of Art Library | Museum Library | open | IIIF/API | IIIF-enabled digital titles; manifests/viewers exposed at record level. | Mixed/Open Access |
| 16 | United States | National Gallery of Art | Museum | open | IIIF/API | Open data plus IIIF-capable image/digital ecosystem; image rights must be checked. | CC0 metadata / OA subset |
| 17 | United States | J. Paul Getty Museum | Museum | open | IIIF/API | Presentation manifests at media.getty.edu/iiif/manifest/{id}; Image API and ActivityStream. | Mixed/CC0 data |
| 18 | United States | Getty Research Institute | Archive / Research | open | IIIF/API | IIIF and linked-data access for digitized research collections. | Mixed |
| 19 | United States | Art Institute of Chicago | Museum | open | IIIF/API | API records link to IIIF Image API; extensive CC0 public-domain imagery. | CC0/OA subset |
| 20 | United States | Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum | Museum | open | IIIF/API | IIIF museum adopter; design collection/API and image services. | Mixed |
| 21 | United States | Carnegie Museum of Art | Museum | open | IIIF/API | Named IIIF museum adopter; resolve manifests per collection object. | Mixed |
| 22 | United States | The Frick Collection | Museum | open | IIIF/API | Named IIIF museum adopter; object-level IIIF access. | Mixed |
| 23 | United States | Hill Museum & Manuscript Library | Manuscripts / Museum | open | IIIF/API | Major manuscript-focused IIIF adopter. | Mixed |
| 24 | United States | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens | Library / Museum | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; Huntington Digital Library exposes manifests. | Mixed |
| 25 | United States | Folger Shakespeare Library | Library / Museum | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; manuscripts, rare books, art and performance history. | Mixed |
| 26 | United States | Library of Congress | National Library | open | IIIF/API | Many items expose /manifest.json; massive images/maps/newspapers/manuscripts source. | Mixed/PD-heavy |
| 27 | United States | Digital Commonwealth | Aggregator | open | IIIF/API | Append /manifest to record URLs for Presentation 2 manifests. | Mixed |
| 28 | United States | Leventhal Map & Education Center | Maps | open | IIIF/API | Digital Commonwealth-based; record URL + /manifest. | Mixed/PD-heavy |
| 29 | United States | Internet Archive | Archive / Library | open | IIIF/API | Large IIIF-enabled corpus; item identifiers can resolve to manifests/image services. | Mixed |
| 30 | United States | Smithsonian Institution | Museum / Archive | open | IIIF/API | Multiple units and millions of OA assets; IIIF appears across Smithsonian digital infrastructure. | CC0 subset |
| 31 | United States | New York Public Library Digital Collections | Library | open | IIIF/API | Large digital collections/API ecosystem; IIIF manifests/images available in parts of repository. | Mixed/PD-heavy |
| 32 | United States | Northwestern University Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Digital Collections use IIIF-compatible delivery. | Mixed |
| 33 | United States | Indiana University Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Known IIIF ecosystem participant; collection-specific endpoints. | Mixed |
| 34 | United States | Penn State University Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Digital collections discovery seed for IIIF manifests. | Mixed |
| 35 | United States | University of Pennsylvania Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Colenda digital repository supports interoperable image delivery/IIIF. | Mixed |
| 36 | United States | Saint Louis University | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Research Computing Group is IIIF Consortium member; manuscript/heritage projects are useful seeds. | Mixed |
| 37 | Canada | University of Toronto | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium full member; multiple digitization repositories. | Mixed |
| 38 | Canada | University of British Columbia Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; Open Collections is major digitized corpus. | Mixed |
| 39 | Canada | Canadian Research Knowledge Network | Aggregator | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; national digitized heritage infrastructure. | Mixed |
| 40 | Canada | McGill University Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Known IIIF adopter; rare books/maps/archives. | Mixed |
| 41 | Canada | University of Alberta Libraries | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Canadian digitization/IIIF discovery seed. | Mixed |
| 42 | United Kingdom | British Library | National Library | open | IIIF/API | Founding IIIF institution; manuscripts, maps, books, archives and images across multiple services. | Mixed/PD-heavy |
| 43 | United Kingdom | Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Founding IIIF institution; Digital Bodleian exposes IIIF resources prominently. | Mixed/PD-heavy |
| 44 | United Kingdom | University of Cambridge | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Cambridge Digital Library; IIIF Consortium member. | Mixed |
| 45 | United Kingdom | Fitzwilliam Museum | Museum / University | open | IIIF/API | JSON API includes IIIF-capable object/image resources. | Mixed |
| 46 | United Kingdom | Victoria and Albert Museum | Museum | open | IIIF/API | Named IIIF museum adopter; vast decorative arts/fashion/design collection. | Mixed |
| 47 | United Kingdom | Tate | Museum | open | IIIF/API | Open metadata plus IIIF/digital collection ecosystem; media rights vary. | Mixed |
| 48 | United Kingdom | National Archives UK | National Archive | open | IIIF/API | IIIF Consortium member; archival digital-delivery work. | Mixed |
| 49 | United Kingdom | University of Leeds Special Collections | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Digital collection pages expose manifests on iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk. | Mixed |
| 50 | United Kingdom | Lancaster University Library | Library / University | open | IIIF/API | Digital collections expose IIIF manifests. | Mixed |