Pramod Prasanth
Founder
Systems architect and builder. He designs infrastructure before the market has the tools for it; Open Museum and the openclearance spec grew from his own need for reuse-safe art and became open tools anyone can use.
LinkedInOpen-access art, made findable, trusted, and yours to own.
Open Museum brings together art that museums and collections around the world have released for everyone to use, in one search. For every work, we show what you are free to do with it, backed by proof you can check. Soon, you will be able to own it as a museum-grade print.
Why we built it
Museums have opened millions of works to the public, free to use. But they sit in separate collections, and it is rarely clear what you can actually do with any one of them. Open Museum answers both problems: it gathers open-access art in one place, and it makes the rights plain and checkable, so you can use a work with confidence and credit it properly.
What you can do
- Find Search open collections from around the world in one place, with the rights verified.
- Trust Every work carries a clear record of what is allowed, and that proof is now independently verifiable.
- Own Museum-grade fine-art prints are launching soon, so you can live with the work.
We never overwrite the art
We show every work clean, the way its maker left it. The credit and the details sit beside the work, never on top of it.
The standard behind the trust
The trust layer has a name: openclearance. It is an open standard for proving what is allowed with a work, and the proof travels with the work wherever it goes. We are inviting museums, galleries, and others to help govern it as an independent body, so the trust does not belong to us alone.
Where we are
Open Museum is based in Basel, Switzerland. The collection and the rights records are live today; museum-grade prints are launching soon. We are just getting started.
The people behind it
A small team building reuse-safe access to the world's open collections.
JRA
Josephine Ramya Antony
Partnerships & Museum Relations
Indian dance practitioner. She performs, curates, and produces shows, and through Indira Performing Arts makes Indian dance learning widely available. In 2026 she brings India Basel (InBa), a Bharatanatyam residency and performance programme in Basel.
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