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Creative Archives

Flickr can do things in ways traditional archives can’t: discuss.

Please note: This program ceased in December 2025.

About the program

The whole Flickr corpus is simply massive—tens of billions of digital objects, and growing every day. It’s one of the biggest image collections humans have ever created. Its huge scale makes it difficult to look after, let alone preserve.

Creative Archives investigates accessible tactics around ethics of care, decentralization, social or local archives, explorable formats, and machine-based support. 

We’re interested in archiving the foundation itself too, from the start.

The Sustainability of Slowness

Listen to George Oates and Foundation research partner, Temi Odumosu, in conversation with Amanda Meeks at permanent.org, on the ways in which we can all preserve our memories within a changing digital landscape.Listen now
Glass plate negative showing two girls sitting on side of a dinghy on the water

Welcome New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa!

The Flickr Foundation is delighted to welcome the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa as one of the two new members to Flickr Commons, sharing their maritime history with our community.

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A child swinging at a baseball in a small baseball field while people watch from the stands.

Welcome To Menlo Park Planning, Our Newest Flickr Commons member

The Planning Division of the City of Menlo Park in California has located and preserved several sets of old photos from the history of Menlo Park as it was being expanded in the 1960s and 1980s.

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Screenshot of a PDF on Internet Archive

Do you know how to write a 100-year plan?

Not many of us do. So why not try the new session plan we're launching under CC-BY today! It's a PDF!

Try it now!
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