DigitaltMuseum (lit. 'The Digital Museum') is a website-database in Norwegian and Swedish for art, images and cultural history museums.
The service was established in 2009 after a trial period. The database is developed and operated by KulturIT. KulturIT ANS was established by the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and Maihaugen in consultation with ABM in 2007. In 2015, the company underwent a corporate transformation and KulturIT AS was established on 12 February.
The website has per 2025 around 2,548,022 images. Many of the images are in the public domain or under creative commons licenses. And are being imported into Wikimedia Commons.
The API of the website was developed in 2012.
Institutions
There are currently 223 museums that are working on this project.
Mission
DigitaltMuseum aims to make the museums' collections accessible to all interested parties, regardless of time and place. The website aims to facilitate easy use of the collections through, among other things, image-searches, research, teaching and joint knowledge development.
DigitaltMuseum contains collections from several hundred Norwegian and Swedish museums, totalling around five million objects. The website contains both historical images from the areas and themes covered by the museums, as well as images of artefacts from the collections. Parts of the collection have previously only been shown in the museums' exhibitions and books and have therefore rarely or never been shown to the public.
References
- ^ Pedersen, Fredrik Lyngås (2024-12-17), "DigitaltMuseum", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian), retrieved 2025-01-14
- "DigitaltMuseum". digitaltmuseum.no. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- "Template:DigitaltMuseum - Wikimedia Commons". commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- Årsmelding. . 2011. p. 23.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "DigitaltMuseum". digitaltmuseum.no. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
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