Tag: museums

  • Save the Date: Museum Day, Saturday, September 24

    Museum Day, an annual event sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, is fast approaching. On Saturday, September 24, hundreds of museums and other cultural venues nationwide open their doors to free admission — request the required ticket, good for the ticket holder and a guest, from the site. Local institutions participating in the event include Casa de…

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  • More high res images available for academic publishing

    More and more museums and archives are making high resolution images of public domain works available online, and free, for academic publishing.  The first to do this was the Metropolitan Museum, which now has thousands of Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) available through ARTstor.  Other museums that have followed suit with selections from their collections…

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  • Getty encourages Google Goggles searching

    The Getty Museum has partnered with Google to encourage museum visitors to use the smartphone app Google Goggles™ in the galleries. The Getty created mobile versions of some of their collection Web pages, some including audio, which Google then incorporated in their visual search technology. For a sample page, click here. The app also allows…

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