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CTyankee

(63,901 posts) Tue Mar 7, 2023, 05:25 PM Mar 2023

More museums are offering "open access" to their artworks and it is exciting!

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access

https://hyperallergic.com/536360/images-of-100000-artworks-from-paris-museum-collections-now-freely-available-to-the-public/

This is a wonderful trend. I started finding this trend when I accidentally found that a Rubens I love is now available to art writers/historians. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens/1635%E2%80%931640#/media/File

eter_Paul_Rubens_-_St._Cecilia_-_WGA20257.jpg

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More museums are offering "open access" to their artworks and it is exciting! (Original Post) CTyankee Mar 2023 OP

awesome ZonkerHarris Mar 2023 #1

Naturally this seems great, but... 4dog Mar 2023 #2

ZonkerHarris

(24,220 posts)

1. awesome

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Tue Mar 7, 2023, 05:33 PM

Mar 2023

4dog

(503 posts)

2. Naturally this seems great, but...

Reply to ZonkerHarris (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 7, 2023, 07:19 PM

Mar 2023

Please share your experience on these sites. I went to a similar one recently and found the search engine so klutzy that I left it without saving the link.

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