The Metropolitan Museum of Art is celebrating the third anniversary of its Open Access Program, which seeks to make the museums collection one of the most accessible, discoverable, and useable on the internet. Since its launch in 2017 with 375,000 images, the museum has added 70,000 images to its catalog of open content, allowing users around the world to digitally connect with the art and narratives of 5,000 years of history throughout the collection. The Mets Open Access Program has been a trailblazing effort and a fundamental step to reach new audiences, spark connections to our collection, and create greater access to art, and the waves of innovation and creativity these images have generated is astounding and inspiring, said Max Hollein, director of the Met. Our engagement with a wide range of partners provides unexpected insights and builds pathways throughout the larger network of art, culture, and technology, and has helped shape the way we make the collection more accessible to creators, researchers and makers around the world. Since the launch of The Met Collection API in 2019, the museum has been engaging with new partners and programs, like Parsons School of Design data visualization classes; a University of Virginia School of Data Science graduate team developing a machine learning model; Wikimedia Foundations effort to provide structured data in WikiData; and Visipedia, an academic project investigating machine learning techniques and systems. All of these new programs are able to access data and images that the museum makes available in CSV format or with an API. There are currently over 450,000 images of over 230,000 distinct art objects, all under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license from The Met Open Access Program, available for use without restriction. Through Open Access, API data is updated daily, and filters including artist, date, geography, culture and more have been added to make the collection more useable. The Met is discovering a number of ways the collection can be used for pioneering research and exploration, as well as ways that its database can be used as a model for new programs and applications. To date, the museum has received over 42 million requests to the API, with over 29,000 unique users. Documentation and resources on how to use The Met Collection API, as well as additional information about Open Access, are available at metmuseum.org/openaccess. About The Met The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world in three New York City locations - The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Since it was founded in 1870, the museum has made art come alive in its galleries and through exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and cultures.