The Metropolitan Museum has opened free access to 375 000 works of art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York opened up free access to 375 000 digitized artwork from his collection. Photos have high resolution (up to 10 MP) and can be freely downloaded to Online the museum.

Many digitized images of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been available online since 2014 as part of the Open Access program, however, until now their use was allowed only on a non-commercial basis. Now the Metropolitan Museum of Art is collaborating with resources Pinterest, Wikimedia, Artstor, Art Resource, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) и Creative Commons. Organization Creative Commons became the base for placing 375 thousands of images.

“We bring the values ​​of openness, innovation and collaboration to the digital age,” says CEO Creative Commons Ryan Merkley. According to him, the Metropolitan Museum made a gift to the world: he removed the barrier that limits access to content.

Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum can be sorted by artist / author / era, material and technology, georeferencing, date, era, and the department of the museum.

The decision to put digitized versions of works of art into free access is not new. For example, Smithsonian Institution provides access to 1,2 million works online; nevertheless, these photos mostly have low resolution. Access to millions of documents and historical photographs provides and Library of Congress. An interesting project in this area is implementing Google Art Project. Thanks to him, you can get free access to photos of works of art from various museums of the world in high resolution.

Similar initiatives previously carried out and Getty Museum In Los Angeles, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, National Art Gallery in Washington.

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