Brand New!! Pinterest Meets The Rijksmuseum

Today's post is most a makeover of the website of a major museum.  In essence it's about

• how to brand the images inside the collection of a major museum much to a greater extent than accessible to all those interested inwards art.
• how to download images for your ain personal use
• PLUS how to create your ain collections - much inwards the same agency people create boards on Pinterest - or create collections inwards the Google Art Project.

The museum inwards inquiry is the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - together with the novel website precedes the reopening of the museum adjacent month after 10 years of renovation, restoration together with alteration.  It's too making itself to a greater extent than accessible past times existence the outset museum inwards the the world to move opened upwards every 24-hour interval of the year.

After 10 years of renovation, the completely renewed Rijksmuseum volition opened upwards on thirteen Apr 2013.

The Rijksmuseum volition move the outset major national museum inwards the the world to move opened upwards to the populace 365 days per year. The museum volition move opened upwards daily from ix am to v pm. Admission volition move €15, the museum remains gratis for children nether 19.

Before I write more, I outset desire to give thank you lot some people.

First of all thanks to New Rijksmuseum website.

Two developments

There are 2 specific developments - both of which are aimed at making the fine art inwards the Rijksmuseum to a greater extent than accessible.

• a novel blueprint for the museum website - which makes the fine art inwards the collections much to a greater extent than accessible together with the information most the museum much amend structured
• a novel site - the RijksStudio - which allows you lot to exercise things amongst the fine art inwards the collection i time you've flora the fine art you lot like

A novel website

I holler upwards the former website.  It was rattling traditional - lumbering even.  The novel website is rattling much minute decade of the 21st century.  It's rattling elementary together with rattling paradigm oriented.  All the former cloth is silent in that place but is straight off much better presented inwards iii elementary categories:

• Plan your Visit
• Collection
• About the Museum

Explore the Collection - navigation 

The large divergence is that the emphasis is straight off on the artwork itself.

The emphasis on navigation is most keeping it elementary - together with popular.  In fact there's a major sense that this is a website which has been made for the populace rather than fine art historians together with curators!

• their 'treasures' are highlighted - for instance here's the Vermeer page
• you tin ship away await much to a greater extent than easily at works of art inwards their different manifestations.  Here's iii examples
• Paintings / Daily life (paintings) - each page suggests other pages which mightiness move of interest.  Thus it suggests ways to surf the collection.  It's rattling slowly to larn caught upwards inwards this.  One tin ship away imagine a game where you lot convey to operate out to larn from i purpose of the collection to some other using the minimum issue of moves based on 'related pages'!  (Well you lot tin ship away if you're me!)
• Applied Arts / Textiles - when the only related page is "owls" you lot simply convey to click it!
• Works on Paper / Drawings - earlier you lot know it you lot start clicking the images together with getting ones which completely create total your screen.  Small cramped images where you lot convey to press buttons to brand larger convey been dumped.
• you tin ship away too uncovering artists you lot similar - or desire to know to a greater extent than most - or subject matter (oddly silent life together with flowers are missing) or styles
• I dearest some of the categorisations which straight off crop upwards based on the content of the paintings inwards their collection.  Brief background information together with explanations are provided for each category.
  

• Daily life

• Inns, taverns together with brothels
• Peasants
• Beggars
• Shepherds together with shepherdesses
• Feasts
• Immoral women

• you tin ship away download AND modify the rattling large high Definition images.  Downloading the Rijksmuseum: Masterpieces for Everyone.
  
  Then Karen Robinson (Dog together with Pet Paintings) who sent me the link equally she knew it would involvement me!  Thanks to both of you.
  
  Finally - thank you lot to Charlie Parker (New Rijksmuseum website.
  
  Two developments
  
  There are 2 specific developments - both of which are aimed at making the fine art inwards the Rijksmuseum to a greater extent than accessible.
  
  • a novel blueprint for the museum website - which makes the fine art inwards the collections much to a greater extent than accessible together with the information most the museum much amend structured
  • a novel site - the RijksStudio - which allows you lot to exercise things amongst the fine art inwards the collection i time you've flora the fine art you lot like
  A novel website
  
  
  I holler upwards the former website.  It was rattling traditional - lumbering even.  The novel website is rattling much minute decade of the 21st century.  It's rattling elementary together with rattling paradigm oriented.  All the former cloth is silent in that place but is straight off much better presented inwards iii elementary categories:
  • Plan your Visit
  • Collection
  • About the Museum

  

  Explore the Collection - navigation 

  The large divergence is that the emphasis is straight off on the artwork itself.
  
  The emphasis on navigation is most keeping it elementary - together with popular.  In fact there's a major sense that this is a website which has been made for the populace rather than fine art historians together with curators!
  • their 'treasures' are highlighted - for instance here's the Vermeer page
  • you tin ship away await much to a greater extent than easily at works of art inwards their different manifestations.  Here's iii examples
  • Paintings / Daily life (paintings) - each page suggests other pages which mightiness move of interest.  Thus it suggests ways to surf the collection.  It's rattling slowly to larn caught upwards inwards this.  One tin ship away imagine a game where you lot convey to operate out to larn from i purpose of the collection to some other using the minimum issue of moves based on 'related pages'!  (Well you lot tin ship away if you're me!)
  • Applied Arts / Textiles - when the only related page is "owls" you lot simply convey to click it!
  • Works on Paper / Drawings - earlier you lot know it you lot start clicking the images together with getting ones which completely create total your screen.  Small cramped images where you lot convey to press buttons to brand larger convey been dumped.
  • you tin ship away too uncovering artists you lot similar - or desire to know to a greater extent than most - or subject matter (oddly silent life together with flowers are missing) or styles
  • I dearest some of the categorisations which straight off crop upwards based on the content of the paintings inwards their collection.  Brief background information together with explanations are provided for each category.
    

  • Daily life

  • Inns, taverns together with brothels
  • Peasants
  • Beggars
  • Shepherds together with shepherdesses
  • Feasts
  • Immoral women

  • you tin ship away download AND modify the rattling large high Definition images.  Moira McLaughlin inwards her post demonstrated what tin ship away move done past times extracting the moving-picture exhibit inside a painting.
  • The enquiry expanse has some to a greater extent than interesting together with accessible information than some museums.  Note - artists interested inwards developing their skills inwards icon may move intetested to know that they're belongings an International Symposium on Painting Techniques, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 18, xix together with twenty September 2013.  It's genuinely aimed at museum bods - which seems a chip odd. 

  The cardinal theme of the symposium volition move the technical report of historically used icon techniques, the historical icon materials, their rootage together with trade, together with their application inwards the painter’s workshop.

  • In addition, the museum website silent has all the normal information such equally information you lot demand to know if intending to pay a see or wanting to know how you lot tin ship away exercise some research.
  I uncovering the layout equally a whole gives me a much amend impression of the industrial plant inwards the collection than the previous website - plus it's absolutely amazing to move able to meet such large images.
  
  The search facility - equally frequently happens on the websites where English linguistic communication is non the outset linguistic communication - is silent a chip of a hot together with missy affair.  I rather suspect they silent convey some agency to decease when it comes to tagging all the images for search purposes.
  
  However the choice of images industrial plant much amend equally they're a decent size together with you're able to brand out what the icon looks similar without having to click it to meet what it is.
  
  The Rijksstudio
  
  The vision for the Rijksmuseum inwards the 21st century is for it to move a modern museum.
  
  It's been apparent for a long fourth dimension that i the ways inwards which museums heighten revenue is past times making their images to a greater extent than accessible for utilisation inwards an applied fine art sense - most frequently equally prints, cards together with calendars.
  
  The Rijksstudio provides an chance to:
  
  • create sets of similar items that I similar - rattling much similar i mightiness exercise inwards Pinterest.  You tin ship away meet the overview of a brace I made rattling speedily below.  Those familiar amongst my sketches together with drawings volition non move surprised past times the champaign of report matter!
  • make something amongst the images you lot similar - see From shirts to scooters ... tips together with examples - even hence I haven't tried this bit!

  All of the images inwards the Rijksmuseum’s online collection are high resolutions. So the printout of your favourite industrial plant together with details volition await great, equally a poster, canvas, aluminum, Perspex or on a greetings cards set.

  What's rattling strange is that you lot tin ship away extract an paradigm from an artwork together with cutting it downward for utilisation inwards applied art.  Normally museums are rattling keen that you lot reproduce the whole artwork - but inwards a size suitable for the Internet together with amongst all the copyright information intact together with present.
  
  The images which you lot search to create the laid of images are those which appear on the museum website - rattling large together with rattling proficient definition.
  

  

  Two sets I created inwards Rijksstudio (by makingamark)

  They furnish links to various websites which offering dissimilar forms of online printing on demand.  They may good move reputable websites but to my remove heed they could move rather to a greater extent than integrated into the website rather than standalone operations.  The nature of the relationships could too move spelt out a chip to a greater extent than clearly.
  
  It seemed to me that the reach of the options offered enable people to inwards final result laid upwards the equivalent of Zazzle shops creating merchandise based on artwork inwards the museum's collection.
  
  I gauge at the goal of the 24-hour interval peradventure the Museum has noticed that the ordinary consumer rattling frequently does equally proficient a project if non amend than the dedicated designer.  I must confess I'm i of those people who goes to an exhibition together with and hence comes out laid to sense the merchandising - only to uncovering I'm rattling disappointed past times the images that the professional person designers convey chosen.
  
  It may good move the trouble organisation model started past times the Rijksmuseum may grab on amongst other museums together with decease to a greater extent than widespread.  It'll move interesting to meet what happens next.
  
  Note:  "Who's made a score this week?" volition move published tomorrow.
  
  
  
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