The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

A web-based discovery tool that indexes and lets you semantically search a vast aggregated museum corpus: the interface advertises searchable access to 6,308,174 artworks from major collections, with free-text/tag querying and a date-range slider spanning roughly 3000 BC to 2026. Results display canonical metadata (title, artist, date) and thumbnail images, and example hits include globally recognizable works - Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Hokusai), Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer), The Starry Night (Van Gogh), The Scream (Munch) - alongside a wide range of periods, cultures, and media such as Japanese woodblock prints, Renaissance portraits, Impressionist landscapes and more.

Functionally, the site emphasizes semantic rather than strictly keyword matching to surface visually or conceptually related works across institutional silos, enabling cross-collection comparisons, motif and iconography searches, and discovery of unexpected parallels. The concrete specifics that matter are its scale (millions of records), temporal filtering, tag-driven facets (e.g., portrait, propaganda poster, abstract, geometric shapes), and immediate visibility of artist and date, making it a practical tool for researchers, curators, designers, and anyone wanting rapid, wide-ranging art-historical exploration.