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Baltimore Museum of Art now digitizing part of its 90K-object collection of art

The Baltimore Museum of Art hopes to have digitized and uploaded 10,000 pieces of art from its collection by the end of 2014.

The Baltimore Museum of Art. (Photo by Flickr user dnkbdotcom, used under a Creative Commons license)

Nearly 6,500 pieces of art of the Baltimore Museum of Art‘s collection of more than 90,000 objects have been digitized and uploaded onto the museum’s website.
The virtual database is reminiscent of the Walters Art Museum‘s Wikimedia project, in which the museum has uploaded more than 19,000 images of artwork to Wikimedia Commons since 2012.
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“Virtual visitors can search, browse, and magnify images from every area of the collection and learn details about the artist, medium, and dimensions are provided for each object,” according to a press release.
The digital efforts underway at the Baltimore Museum of Art come several weeks after naming Nancy Proctor the museum’s first deputy director of digital experience. A lead organizer of the Museums and the Web conference that’s in Baltimore for the first time this week, Proctor is also responsible for producing digital content about the museum’s art collections, as Technical.ly Baltimore reported.
According to the release, the Baltimore Museum of Art hopes to have digitized and uploaded 10,000 pieces of art from its collection by the end of 2014.

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