Introduction
Silvia Massa
Museums display their collections to the public as part of their core tasks. But when it comes to prints, drawings or photographs, restrictive preservation conditions and the sheer size of the holdings make a durable presentation unthinkable. In the past twenty years, online catalogues have allowed users worldwide to engage with works on paper in multiple ways. The two projects discussed in the seminar will touch upon some of the issues that come with cataloguing and visualising these objects online.
The Rijksmuseum’s Prentenkabinet Online
Merel van Erp
The Prentenkabinet Online (Print Room Online) started in 2007 with the aim to make the collection of works on paper of the Rijksmuseum (comprising prints, drawings and photographs) digitally accessible for everyone, internal and external of the museum. The project is interdisciplinary and consists of three parts: registration, digitalization and conservation. In the past 16 years, over 600.000 works on paper have been made accessible online and can now be found in the Rijksstudio. This is the last year of the project: our goal is to have the entire collection accessible online by the end of 2023.
The Prince Albert's Raphael Collection at Windsor
Elania Pieragostini
The Royal Collection Trust embarked on a major project exploring the life, works and legacy of Prince Albert. In particular, this seminar will give account of his 'Raphael Collection': commenced in 1853 and largely completed by 1876, which comprises around 5,000 prints and photographs after every work regarded in the mid-nineteenth century as being by, or after, Raphael and his circle. This cataloguing project aimed at inventorying and making these works available to both internal and external audiences, ensuring the accessibility of this diverse and unique content, housed in a purpose-built cabinet in the Print Room of the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
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