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

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. “Virtual visitors can search, browse, and ...

Digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural history

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...
Wired

How the Natural History Museum is Scanning 80 Million Dead Creatures

The Natural History Museum in London has set itself the mammoth task of digitising its specimens - all 80 million of them. The museum's collection includes everything from a blue whale skeleton to ...
Hyperallergic

Hood Museum Digitizing 4,000 Indigenous Artifacts

By this summer, Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art plans to have over 4,000 Native American art objects digitized. The project is funded by a $150,000 grant received in September of 2013 from the ...
seattlepi.com

3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Today ...
Forbes

Inside Digital Transformation At The World’s Largest Museums

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Museums are using digital transformation to make massive collections accessible and ...
insider.si.edu

Digitizing the Donor Experience: Exploring the Use of Digital Collections

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Digitizing the Donor Experience: Exploring the Use of Digital Collections to Build a New Culture of Philanthropy in the Museum Presented to ...