The British museum online collection
The British Museum
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/sites/default/files/use-cases/united-kingdom_-_british_museum.pdf]
has about eight million objects in its collection, half of these are
portrayed in the British Museum [https://www.britishmuseum.org/]
collection database. Visitors can choose from curated collections,
including desire, love, identity and death and memory, as well as
those focusing on the Americas, China and Africa, which reveal the
fascinating stories behind the objects. A new online collection
[https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection] launched in early 2020
includes new records and allows for new ways to search.

Cultural open data is uploaded in the form of high-resolution images
of art. The database of the British museum is one of the earliest and
most extensive online museum search platforms in the world. There are
currently 2,335,338 records available, which represent more than
4,000,000 objects. At least 1,018,471 records have one or more images.

The British museum normally gives free access to visitors of the
permanent collection and now extends this service online. In this
manner, people from all socio-economic backgrounds can continue to
enjoy art and educate themselves and their children. The British
museum is one of many cultural institutions that have started to share
cultural open data (amid the COVID-19 pandemic). Other related use
case examples on data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/en] are the
Gli Uffizi [/sites/default/files/use-cases/italy_-_gli_uffizi.pdf] in
Florence, the Vatican museums
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/vatican_city_-_vatican_museums.pdf],
the van Gogh museum
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/netherlands_-_van_gogh_museum.pdf] in
Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in Bilbao
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/spain_-_guggenheim_bilbao.pdf], and
Musée d’Orsay [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/] in Paris.

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Publication Date/Time
2020-05-22T07:00:00+00:00
The British museum publishes one of the most extensive online museum
collections in the world and partakes in the growing trend of cultural
open data