Guide to Free Online Sites: Cultural

The story of European art, masterpiece by masterpiece

Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce.

1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Links to full text books, pamphlets, newspapers and historical documents on the World Wide Web

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

The ICDL collection includes 4619 books in 59 languages. There are 14 books in Hebrew and many in English.

Browse our music by composer, performer, instrument, form and time period.
Download for free or save for later.

11,215 free Grateful Dead recordings should keep you busy for some time. "You can browse the recordings by year, so if you click on, say, 1973 you will see links to two hundred and ninety-four recordings, beginning with four versions of a February 9th concert at Stanford and ending with several versions of December 19th in Tampa," writes Paumgarten. "Most users merely stream the music; it’s a hundred cassette trays, in the Cloud."

Opera and Ballet

The Met is putting on nightly opera streams. They're only available until 3:30 p.m. ET the next day.

Comprehensive site with links to free movies (Watch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors.), lectures by writers, virtual museum tours, and much more!

The Social Distancing Festival is an online artist’s community made to celebrate and showcase the work of the many artists around the world who have been affected by the need for social distancing that has come about due to the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Live Streaming.