Useum: paintings from museums

Useum aims to make public-domain artworks, held and published online by museums around the world, easier to reach.
Careful attention to layout and to the way each work is presented makes for a simple, intuitive experience: visual walks through the history of art.

BROWSE
Hundreds of artists and tens of thousands of works, from Antiquity to the 20th century: paintings, drawings, Japanese prints, masterpieces of the Renaissance and of Impressionism, from Leonardo da Vinci to Monet, from Hokusai to Van Gogh. Each artist has a page; each work opens full screen, with its title, date, technique, real dimensions and the place where it is kept.

SEARCH
A combined keyword search gives very precise results: "horse", "sun", "Impressionism" and "red", for example, lead only to the works that bring all four together. You can also combine artist, movement, nationality, date, museum and technique.

LOOK
Pinch to enlarge a work: it fills the whole screen, and you can wander through it with your finger. Swipe to move to the next one.

ACTIVITIES TO SEE ART DIFFERENTLY (with a subscription)
Where am I?: an observation game in which you find an object in a painting.
The common detail: several paintings go by; find the object they all share.
Puzzle: a painting to put back together, piece by piece.
Memory: a memory game with four levels, alone or with someone, from the simplest to recognising an artist's style.
Sort your paintings: put each painting in the basket of the right artist, or the right movement.
Tell your painting: choose a character, a place and what happens, and the app finds the paintings that match, then a worksheet to fill in, sent to you by email.
Illustrate a story: choose a fable by La Fontaine and illustrate it with paintings to make your own book.
One painting, one poem: touch an object in the painting, and a poem from the same period appears.

COLLECT
Gather works into albums. An album can be sent by email or turned into a PDF: A4, portrait or landscape, one to three works per page, each with its title, artist, technique, dimensions, location and photo credit.

FIVE LANGUAGES
French, English, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. Titles, techniques and museum names follow the language you choose.

WHAT WILL NOT CHANGE
The catalogue is free and ad-free. No trackers, no audience measurement.
Every work is in the public domain, and every photograph is credited with its licence: that is the project's rule, not an option.

THE SUBSCRIPTION
€18 a year or €2 a month. It opens the albums and the educational activities, for family, classroom or professional use. The catalogue itself stays entirely free and ad-free. The subscription renews automatically; you can manage or cancel it at any time in Google Play.

Useum is published by the non-profit association Films pour enfants. Website: useum.art