Sweden’s NationalMuseum Releases 3,000 Hi-Res Images on Wikimedia Commons

From the NationalMuseum:

While the Nationalmuseum building is under renovation, only a small part of the collections is accessible to the public. To provide more opportunity for people to enjoy its artworks, the museum embarked last year on a joint project with Wikimedia Sweden. As a result, high-resolution images of some 3,000 paintings from the collections are now available for download on Wikimedia Commons as public domain. This means they are part of our shared cultural heritage and can be freely used for any purpose. The images are also now zoomable, but not currently downloadable, in Nationalmuseum’s online database.
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Nationalmuseum will continue to make its collections more accessible as digitization gathers pace and digital infrastructure improves. The longer-term goal is to create a portal offering quick and easy access to all the museum’s fine art collections and archives. Nationalmuseum joins a growing number of museums that have released images of their collections, including The Royal Armoury and Skokloster Castle with the Hallwyl Museum Foundation in Sweden, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. Data on the images in Wikipedia Commons, including links to the zoomable versions, is available on GitHub.

Direct to Hi-Res Images on Wikimedia Commons
Direct to Data on Github
Direct to NationalMuseum Collections Database
Direct  to Selected Works in Nationalmuseum’s Online Database

• Anne Vallayer-Coster, Portrait of a Violinist, 1773
• Berthe Morisot, In the Bois de Boulogne, before 1880
• Alexander Roslin, The Lady with the Veil, 1768
• Agnolo Bronzino, Isabella de’ Medici
• Bertha Wegmann, The Artist Jeanna Bauck, 1881
• Anders Zorn, Castles in the Air, 1885
• Bartholomeus Bassen, Interior of a Baroque Church, 1602

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