Editing Art museum (section)

== Online museums ==
=== Museums with major web presences ===
Most art museums have only limited online collections, but a few museums, as well as some libraries and government agencies, have developed substantial online catalogues. Museums, libraries, and government agencies with substantial online collections include:
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*The [[British Museum]] has over 4,000,000 objects of all types available online, of which 1,018,471 have one or more images (as of June 2019).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx |title=British Museum collection database online |publisher=Britishmuseum.org |access-date=7 June 2019 |archive-date=10 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510172706/http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx |url-status=live }}; "There are currently 2,335,338 records available, which represent more than 4,000,000 objects. 1,018,471 records have one or more images".</ref>
*[[Library of Congress]], prints (C19 on) and photographs collection (several million entries).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/ |title=Prints & Photographs Online Catalog |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=16 June 2012 |archive-date=5 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905042049/http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] has "406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction".<ref>[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection MMA site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610222117/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection |date=10 June 2019 }}, accessed 7 June 2019</ref>
*[[Rijksmuseum]] has 399,189 objects available online, of which 153,309 have one or more images.<ref>[https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search Search the collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511035202/https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search |date=11 May 2021 }}, [[Rijksmuseum]]. Retrieved on 11 January 2014.</ref>
*[[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], with over 215,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated, including paintings, prints and photographic portraits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections.php|title=People & Portraits – National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk|access-date=19 September 2013|archive-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921203954/http://www.npg.org.uk/collections.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Museum of Modern Art|MOMA]] (Museum of Modern Art), with holdings that include more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films.
*[[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Boston Museum of Fine Arts]], with over 330,000 works, most with images. Good for prints.
*Fine Art Museums of [[San Francisco]], with over 85,000 works.
*[[Harvard Art Museums]], with over 233,000 works online.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/ |title=website, 6 June 2019 |access-date=7 June 2019 |archive-date=5 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605044905/https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Louvre]], with over 80,000 works in various databases, with a large number of images, as well as another 140,000 drawings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/bdd_oeuvre.jsp?bmLocale=en |title=Databases &#124; Louvre Museum |publisher=Louvre.fr |access-date=16 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007071638/http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/bdd_oeuvre.jsp?bmLocale=en |archive-date=7 October 2011}}</ref>
*[[National Gallery of Art]], with over 108,000 works catalogued, though with only 6,000 images.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm |title=National Gallery of Art – The Collection |publisher=Nga.gov |access-date=16 June 2012 |archive-date=24 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624053419/http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{in lang|fr}} The Mona Lisa Database of French Museums – Joconde *(from the [[Ministry of Culture (France)|French Ministry of Culture]])
*Gallery Photoclass South Korea Art Gallery – since 2002
*[[Museum of Art & Photography|Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)]], Bengaluru, India, with over 18,000+ artefacts online, including paintings, photographs, textiles, sculptures and prints.

=== Online art collections ===
There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries that have been developed independently of the support of any individual museum. Many of these, like American Art Gallery, are attempts to develop galleries of artwork that are encyclopedic or historical in focus, while others are commercial efforts to sell the work of contemporary artists.

A limited number of such sites have independent importance in the art world. The large auction houses, such as [[Sotheby's]], [[Bonhams]], and [[Christie's]], maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning. [[Bridgeman Art Library]] serves as a central source of reproductions of artwork, with access limited to museums, [[art dealer]]s, and other professionals or professional organizations.

==== Folksonomy ====
There are also online galleries that have been developed by a collaboration of museums and galleries that are more interested with the categorization of art. They are interested in the potential use of [[folksonomy]] within museums and the requirements for post-processing of terms that have been gathered, both to test their utility and to deploy them in useful ways.

The [[steve.museum]] is one example of a site that is experimenting with this collaborative philosophy. The participating institutions include the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]], the [[Cleveland Museum of Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], and the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].