The Munch Museum in Oslo digitized not only its own holdings of Munch’s works on paper, but also those from other museums and private collections.
Tag: Digitization
New Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo’s Life and Work
Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.
An Important Archive of New York Quilt History Is Being Digitized
The American Folk Art Museum is digitizing the New York Quilt Project, an archive of over 6,000 quilts and their histories.
Taipei’s National Palace Museum Digitizes Its Entire Collection
The National Palace Museum Open Data represents the first time a museum has created such an archive of material from China’s imperial history.
Library of Congress Puts Alexander Hamilton’s Papers Online for the First Time
Letters, speech drafts, and other documents from the ten-dollar founding father Alexander Hamilton, online for the first time from the Library of Congress.
From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag, Listen to Recordings from PEN America’s Vast Archive
After finding its literary archives inaccessible, PEN America launched a five-year project to digitize 1,500 hours of audio and video.
Brooklyn Academy of Music Digitizes 70,000 Objects Spanning 150 Years of Performance
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s new digital archive features playbills, photographs, videos, audio, and ephemera from a century and a half of theatrical history.
When 5.5 Million Polish Citizens Signed a Birthday Card for the US
Ahead of July 4, the Library of Congress made all 111 volumes of a 1926 birthday card signed by 5.5 million Polish citizens available online.
Millions of Objects at 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized for Online Database
They are expecting to digitize seven million images by 2020.
The Lost Sights and Sounds of Storyville, New Orleans’s Red Light District
Through guidebooks and rare artifacts, the New Orleans Historic Collection considers the complicated legacy of Storyville, the city’s former red light district.
Hear the Voices of Brooklyn’s Diverse Past Through a New Digitization Project
The Brooklyn Historical Society’s oral historian discusses the museum’s new online platform for audio.
Watch the British Library Digitize One of the World’s Largest Books
The 1660 Klencke Atlas is taller than most people, and now its rare maps are easily accessible online.