Thursday, February 27, 2020
Great PR
The Smithsonian Institution has just released 2.8 million free digital images of its collections. One can search through them online. The collection of museums will add another 200,000 by year-end and has a goal of digitizing 155 million objects under its care. That is great PR and outreach to scholars, the curious and those who cannot enter the museums themselves. The Smithsonian has been called "the nation's attic" and it is, if one is describing a diverse gathering of nearly every kind of animal, mineral, art, craft and invention. The institution's challenge for years has been a lack of physical space to show what it preserves. It has grown beyond the National Mall and still doesn't have the room it needs. The pictures of its collection open its deep resources to everyone and bolsters its position as the greatest museum complex on earth.
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