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”UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When the new Palmer Museum of Art opened to the public on June 1, it opened another “museum” online, accessible to any art lover anywhere in the world: its collection of nearly 11,000 art objects. The Palmer’s expansive collection is now freely explorable via a new database on its website so that everybody — including staff, students, volunteers, the public, or those who cannot come to the museum in person — can search or research nearly every work of art in its holdings.
“Anyone can access the Palmer’s extensive collection from the ease of their smart phone or favorite device from anywhere in the world,” said Erin M. Coe, director of the Palmer Museum of Art. “By making the collection fully available online, we have dramatically advanced our strategic goal for greater accessibility, allowing us to reach beyond our walls to a broad, diverse, and now global audience.”“
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Why spend $85 MM for brick and mortar when you can just go online? For f*ck’s sake. Then again, online doesn’t bring millions of art enthusiasts to the area every year to spur the local economy.
”UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When the new Palmer Museum of Art opened to the public on June 1, it opened another “museum” online, accessible to any art lover anywhere in the world: its collection of nearly 11,000 art objects. The Palmer’s expansive collection is now freely explorable via a new database on its website so that everybody — including staff, students, volunteers, the public, or those who cannot come to the museum in person — can search or research nearly every work of art in its holdings.
“Anyone can access the Palmer’s extensive collection from the ease of their smart phone or favorite device from anywhere in the world,” said Erin M. Coe, director of the Palmer Museum of Art. “By making the collection fully available online, we have dramatically advanced our strategic goal for greater accessibility, allowing us to reach beyond our walls to a broad, diverse, and now global audience.”“
Palmer Museum unveils online access to its extensive collection | Penn State University
When the new Palmer Museum of Art opened to the public on June 1, it also opened another “museum” online. Its collection of approximately 11,000 art objects is now freely explorable via a new database and accessible to search or research by anyone, anywhere in the world.
www.psu.edu
Why spend $85 MM for brick and mortar when you can just go online? For f*ck’s sake. Then again, online doesn’t bring millions of art enthusiasts to the area every year to spur the local economy.
