The Ask Us team coordinates requests for images owned by Museums Victoria that appear in our exhibitions, publications and websites.
The Ask Us service will be limited until November 2026. During this period, we unable to accept new requests for digitisation and photography of collection material.
If you require images that are not available through Museums Victoria Collections, please contact us and we will advise if existing files can be supplied.
Download images of our collection for free
Many images from our collections are available through the Museum Victoria Collections catalogue. We apply open licenses wherever possible, including marking images as Public Domain as applicable.
Personal use/private research
You do not need to request permission to reproduce Museum's Victoria image(s) for personal use or private research purposes, or for any other non-commercial activity.
You are free to download, display and reproduce material that appears in our publications and websites in an unaltered form. Please refer to our rights statement for further information.
Commercial, publication, exhibition or other non-personal use
Images that appear in Museums Victoria websites, publications and exhibitions are protected by Intellectual Property Law, which includes copyright and moral rights. Images from the Indigenous Collections are also protected by cultural rights. This may limit what can be reproduced.
If you plan to copy, adapt, publish, re-sell, distribute or commercialise in-copyright images contained within Museums Victoria exhibitions, publications or websites, for any purpose other than private research or personal use, you must request the permission of Museums Victoria.
All image requests must be received in writing. In order to service your request, we need to know exactly which image you are interested in and how you intend to use it.
Museums Victoria reserves the right to refuse any requests to copy collection items.
