Louvre Puts Entire Collection Online

[douglas9]

PARIS (AFP) — The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge.

As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world’s most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labeled with information and pictures.

It comes after a year of pandemic-related shutdowns that has seen an explosion in visits to its main website, louvre.fr, which has also been given a major makeover.

“It’s a step that has been in preparation for several years with the aim of serving the general public as well as researchers. Accessibility is at the heart of our mission,” said president-director Jean-Luc Martinez.

The new database includes not only items on public display in the museum but also those in storage, including at its new state-of-the-art facility at Lievin in northern France


https://www.courthousenews.com/louvre-puts-entire-collection-online/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Buried in article: Go here: https://www.louvre.fr/en

https://www.louvre.fr/en

[Hekate]

3. Fantastic. Thanks for the link

[Luciferous]

20. Thanks for the link!

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[Hekate]

4. I can hardly wait to explore

[bucolic_frolic]

5. MAGAts should be forced to view this and listen to opera 6 hours a day

[2Gingersnaps]

10. Reality TV and FOX is what they deserve

but definately not what they need.

[jaxexpat]

13. The sound of exploding heads will echo from the Arc de Triomphe to the Muse du Louvre!

Mon dui! I mean mon cuit au four dans le dieu du beurre! Qui va nettoyer ce gâchis? That whole stretch of the Champs-Élysées is a bloody mess of smooth gray matter.

Serveur? check please.

[demmiblue]

6. K&R

[iluvtennis]

7. Thanks for this post - love museums. It's not the same as in person, but glad to have it

online. nt

[demmiblue]

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[peggysue2]

9. Bookmarked for later fun!

Explored the Louvre 20 years ago. It's definitely time for another visit. Thanks for the link!

[crickets]

11. Lovely! K&R

[Lonestarblue]

12. The most overwhelming museum I've ever visited, but totally amazing.

It would take days to see the whole collection. I think I’ll be getting lost in their website since a visit in person is not possible for awhile.

[Laurelin]

14. Awesome!

Thank you for posting!

[Martin68]

15. Thanks for the link. Every museum should do this. I believe it will actually encourage people to go

to museums more often when covid restrictions are lifted.

[UTUSN]

16. Oh. my. *ZEUS*! --------Well, this solves two problems: 1) Not traveling because of pandemic, and

2) too old to get around the Louvre anyway!1

[cynical_idealist]

17. This is great

Hope they have some awesome servers and bandwidth

[Talitha]

18. Thanks for posting this, douglas9!!

[lpbk2713]

19. C'est Magnifique

Merci.