You don’t need to steal art from the Getty to have it at home. The museum is giving it away

The Getty is one of Southern California’s most renowned art museums, but for the past year there’s been another reason to love it.

Sure, you can peruse the artworks in person. But now you can also have a slice of that experience at home, or really anywhere.

Last year, the museum updated its collection to allow for thousands of pieces to be available for free — digitally. The Getty says the response has been striking, with about a half million downloads this year alone.

Why the art is being given away

Roughly 88,000 artworks are available under the Creative Commons Zero license, which puts the pieces in the public domain. That means you could put a Monet painting on your wall, or create your wedding invites with ancient mosaic images.

David Newbury, the Getty’s  senior director of