template or customization to display an image archive

Hello, I have a site on Square Space and am looking to create a browsable image archive but in looking at available template options I didn't see a way to do this. 

What I'm after is similar to a museum website where I can display a list of product categories as a gallery view, and for those catetories to then display the actual products that I wish to showcase. Further clicking on a product will provide more information and images for it. Here is an example layout that I'm after: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/the-collection#browse-by 

Is there an out of the box template that would allow me to do that ? If not, where can I find information about creating my own custom display to achieve this result?

It sounds like you are want a design pattern that has been discussed several times on the forum. That pattern is to use a Store page but bypass the main store page which lists all the products, create a regular page that is an index directly into the categories.

You start by putting your store page in the Not Linked area so that a site visitor can't easily get to your main store page that lists all the products.

Then you create a regular page with pictures and links directly to the categories of your store page.

That is a very basic overview of the overall effect. There are other user flow issues that need to be addressed but that is more detail that I can go into.

Does this sound like something that would work for your scenario?

Thank you, @creedon. I will experiment with your solution and may reach out again if it doesn't achieve what we're after. One thing that I wasn't sure about is if it is possible to create three levels using this approach: two levels of "regular" pages where one is at the top level like an "art genres" page with links to a second "regular" page of items in that genre. Clicking on a given item  then renders the the item's details and additional views. 

Quote

if it is possible to create three levels using this approach

You can have as many levels as you want before you dive into either a store category page or a product details page. You just have to link the higher level pages into a sensible structure.

One thing that won't be automatic is that the store pages have no concept of these higher level pages that are manually created. So if you need a way to navigate back up the hierarchy then that would have to be addressed. There are no premade solutions for this issue.