robots.txt
# Artifact World Gallery — robots.txt
#
# RC-7 (audit) — SINGLE `User-agent: *` GROUP.
# Previously this file had per-bot `Allow: /` groups (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot,
# ClaudeSearchBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, anthropic-ai) listed
# BEFORE the `*` group. Per the robots.txt spec a crawler obeys ONLY the single most-
# specific matching group, so each named bot used its own `Allow: /` group and NEVER
# saw the `*` group's Disallows — the 8 AI bots could crawl /admin, /checkout,
# /account, /auth. Collapsing to one `*` group makes the Disallows apply to EVERY
# crawler (named bots included) while STILL welcoming AI crawlers: `Allow: /` here
# grants them the full public corpus (P01-R08 CC0 cite-mission intact) — only the
# commerce/account/internal routes are off-limits, to everyone.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /order
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /auth
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /dev
# RC-7 — ONE sitemap registry. robots references ONLY the index; the index itself
# lists every sub-sitemap (prints + video included via scripts/filter-sitemap.mjs).
# Listing prints/video here too double-registered them (robots AND the index).
Sitemap: https://artifactworldgallery.com/sitemap-index.xml
llms.txt
# Artifact World Gallery
> A reference catalog of 193,155 public-domain artworks by 28,175 artists, held by 481 institutions represented in the collection.
Artifact World Gallery is a static, openly-licensed catalog of fine-art works in the
public domain. Each work has a canonical record page with provenance, holding
institution, and machine-readable structured data (schema.org). The catalog is a
consumer of museum open-access data; it does not author the underlying art metadata.
## Key facts
- Artworks: 193,155 public-domain (CC0) works
- Artists: 28,175 catalogued artists
- Venues: 481 holding institutions, part of a 5,092-venue museum atlas
- License: all artwork images are public domain (CC0 / Public Domain Mark)
- Canonical domain: artifactworldgallery.com
- Prints: museum-quality, made-to-order, shipped worldwide except the EU and UK
- Last updated: 2026-06-22
The 481 holding institutions above are the venues that currently hold cataloged works.
They are a subset of the wider 5,092-venue museum atlas — a reachability map of every
catalogued venue, including those whose works are not yet represented in the collection.
## Licensing
Artwork images are in the public domain (CC0 / Public Domain Mark) and are sourced from
the museums that hold the originals. Catalog text and structured data may be reused with
attribution to Artifact World Gallery. There is no paywall on the catalog; a separate
made-to-order print store is the only commercial surface.
## Hubs
- [Artworks](https://artifactworldgallery.com/artworks): browse all 193,155 public-domain works
- [Artists](https://artifactworldgallery.com/artists): all 28,175 catalogued artists, A–Z
- [Venues](https://artifactworldgallery.com/venues): holding institutions and their works
- [Atlas](https://artifactworldgallery.com/atlas): a reachability map of all 5,092 venues
- [Movements](https://artifactworldgallery.com/movements): art-movement hubs (223 movements)
- [Periods](https://artifactworldgallery.com/periods): historical-period hubs (10 periods)
- [Genres](https://artifactworldgallery.com/genres): genre hubs (16 genres)
- [Subjects](https://artifactworldgallery.com/subjects): iconographic subject hubs
- [Collections](https://artifactworldgallery.com/collections): curated thematic sets
- [Glossary](https://artifactworldgallery.com/glossary): illustrated A–Z of every taxonomy term
- [Articles](https://artifactworldgallery.com/articles): in-depth essays and deep dives
## Canonical URL patterns
Record and hub URLs follow a stable grammar (`<slug>` / `<id>` are per-entity):
- [Artwork record](https://artifactworldgallery.com/artwork/the-starry-night-by-vincent-van-gogh): `/artwork/<slug>`
- Artist record: `/artists/<id>`
- Venue record: `/venues/<slug>`
- Movement / period / genre / subject hub: `/movements/<slug>` (and `/periods/`, `/genres/`, `/subjects/`)
- Paginated works: append `/works/<page>` to any hub, artist, or venue URL
## Compare and guides
Honest, balanced comparisons against other art apps and public-domain art sites, plus
use-case guides. Artifact's distinct strengths: 193,000+ CC0 works free to download in
high resolution (no paywall), browse by colour / movement / subject, a 5,092-venue
museum atlas, and a made-to-order print store.
- [Compare hub](https://artifactworldgallery.com/compare): all comparisons in one place
- [vs DailyArt](https://artifactworldgallery.com/compare/dailyart-alternative): catalog depth vs a daily single work
- [vs Google Arts & Culture](https://artifactworldgallery.com/compare/google-arts-culture-alternative): downloadable CC0 vs mixed-rights
- [vs WikiArt](https://artifactworldgallery.com/compare/wikiart-alternative): structured records vs an open wiki
- [vs Artvee](https://artifactworldgallery.com/compare/artvee-alternative): corpus scale and metadata
- [Guides hub](https://artifactworldgallery.com/guides): how to browse, download, and choose prints
- [Browse art by colour](https://artifactworldgallery.com/guides/browse-art-by-color): the colour-search surface
- [Free public-domain art downloads](https://artifactworldgallery.com/free-downloads): high-resolution CC0 downloads
- [Public domain & CC0 explainer](https://artifactworldgallery.com/public-domain): what CC0 means and how it's verified
## iOS app
Artifact World Gallery has a companion iOS app (iPhone + iPad) for browsing the same
public-domain catalog: a tap-through tile board for exploring related works by movement,
era, and subject; a lean-back scroll feed; a "For You" feed; offline access to saved
works; and real-world exhibition tracking that alerts you when a tracked work or artist
goes on view near you (a "Plus" subscription feature).
- [Download the app](https://artifactworldgallery.com/download): iPhone and iPad
## Per-entity indexes
One line per entity (hub URL + work count), ordered by work count:
- [Movements index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/llms/movements.txt): all 223 movements
- [Periods index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/llms/periods.txt): all 10 periods
- [Genres index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/llms/genres.txt): all 16 genres
- [Subjects index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/llms/subjects.txt): top 380 subjects
- [Venues index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/llms/venues.txt): top 481 holding institutions
## Machine-readable
- [Artist manifest](https://artifactworldgallery.com/artist-manifest.json): JSON list of artists
- [Search index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/search-index.json): client-side search corpus
- [Sitemap index](https://artifactworldgallery.com/sitemap-index.xml): the full XML sitemap tree
- [Open data](https://artifactworldgallery.com/open-data): dataset description and reuse terms
