Louvre makes its entire collection available online
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Louvre makes its entire collection available online
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#2Seems to be struggling under the load...of HN art lovers? :)
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#3Did Bill Gates buy the digital/electronic rights to the Louvre collections in the 90s? I seem to recall an article about it, but cannot find it.
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#4Seems to be struggling under the load...of HN art lovers? :)
Which, if true, would be hugely ironic.
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#5I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.
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#6I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.
Short of booking a ticket to Paris and taxiing to the museum, this is a fine way to explore the collection.
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#7I know this potentially sounds ungrateful, but it’s a shame they didn’t follow the example of Paris Musées and place their collection under CC0. [1] As it is it’s really useful for attribution and generalised research, but it doesn’t give you many options for reuse.
[1] https://creativecommons.org/2020/01/10/paris-musees-releases...
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#8I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.
I guess that's why they did it? Because people who want the real experience will still go in person. As such, they aren't really losing any customers.
Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online
#9I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.
I don't plan to go to Paris in the near future due to lack of time but being able to view it online allows me to "wander, ponder, and appreciate" at least to some extent
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#10Seems to be struggling under the load...of HN art lovers? :)
Which, if true, would be hugely ironic.
This museum became so full of art, the only thing it was afraid of was losing access to this art...which, eventually of course, it did. Unfortunately, it had many visitors who saw everything it had, then this visitors tried to visit its web site all at once and killed it in combined DOS attack. Ironic. It could enlighten others from ignorance... but not itself.