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Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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The Peterson Museum (basically the Louvre of automobiles) did the same -or very close- with wonderful video tours of areas that only paying 150$ would get you to see (The Vault).

https://www.youtube.com/user/PetersenMuseum/videos

The Seattle flight museum also started a series where the main curator would talk about individual planes in long format, way better experience than looking at photos online.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCda1wjNf7JaYgx9ukXRqgIQ

Those are just the ones I noticed as an Aviation and Automobile enthusiast. If anyone knows others please share ;_;

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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kaminar wrote: post #3

Did 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.

He bought the DaVinci Codex and made them free as a Windows 98 screensaver :D

https://news.softpedia.com/news/did-you-know-bill-gates-boug...

Rant: I have much more respect to that than the modern NFT craze. He didn't have any obligation to make them free to the public.

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’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 know what you're saying. I used to think digital was everything until my first museum visit (Dublin museum), and it changed my mind when I could lean in and look at each individual brush stroke, and the related paintings next to one another, and even the chatter of people around me.

The chatter and humming of people around, by itself was worth going to the museum, seeing how fathers describe the items to their children, and how sophisticated-looking folks talk and such.

It was a magnificent experience that nothing compares to it in the digital world (yet).

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Post by Barrin92 »

heckerhut wrote: post #20
vaillant wrote: post #12

Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.

I know you’re joking but lots of people still struggle with the reason why NFTs exist, including Apple’s unofficial PR department John Gruber. But it seems he finally understood it now thanks to this article: https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gi... [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/03/26/rusher-nfts

That explains why original signed artworks are valuable, not really why NFTs are valuable

after all if I wanted to buy a Jack Dorsey signature tweet for two million dollars or a Beeple collage for 70 million I'm sure Beeple would have gladly put it on a usb stick, signed me a card, printed it billboard sized and driven it to my house while taking me out for a steak dinner

It's absolutely nebulous what the 'digital' part adds.

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Post by sn_master »

vaillant wrote: post #12

Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.

Not really. NFTs give 'ownership' to things that were already online and widely shared, sometimes for decades (first tweet, nayan cat gif).

The Louvre can still NFT all the images as they please at millions for each one. If anything, it makes it easier now that people can start valuing the items before deciding to make a 'purchase' vs the museum starting auctions immediately.

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kgeist wrote: post #9
throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’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

I don't plan to go to Paris because I don't want to become another victim of the Paris Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Post by abbe98 »

Jerry2 wrote: post #15

In the past year, quite a few collections went online. I remember seeing that Van Gogh collection from Dutch museums was digitized and released recently. Does anyone know if there's a list of various online art collections? I'd really like to go through some. Edit: Van Gogh collection: https://vangoghworldwide.org

Not limited to art but for cultural heritage collections in general.

There is the OpenGLAM Survey, a list of Galleres, Libraries, Archives, and Museum sharing their collections under open licenses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yc8z0z7XdhVKvhTbD2_z...

Then there are also aggregators like dp.la, cultural.jp, digitalnz.org, europeana.eu etc that might also be of interest.

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