The George Eastman Museum has launched a new platform that allows public online access to more than 250,000 objects from its collections.
Objects from the museum’s photography, technology, and George Eastman Legacy collections are now searchable, and more objects from the museum’s holdings are being added on an ongoing basis. Objects from the moving image collection are expected to become accessible in the coming months.
Although not everything in the George Eastman Museum’s collection is available online, more than a quarter of a million objects are currently searchable by artist, collection, classification, and date. New objects from the collection are being added to the database on a weekly basis.
The museum recently announced a grant award of $148,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to support the cataloging and digitizing of the museum’s Gabriel Cromer collection. Donated to the museum by Eastman Kodak Company, this is considered the most important collection of early French photography outside of France. The Gabriel Cromer collection is expected to be fully accessible online by 2019.
The museum’s online collection database is available here.
Photo: “Cool World,” By Shirley Clarke 1963 courtesy George Eastman Museum Collection. Source.
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