Pinterest Meets The Rijksmuseum

Today's post is nearly 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 inward art.
• how to download images for your ain personal use
• PLUS how to create your ain collections - much inward the same agency people create boards on Pinterest - or create collections inward the Google Art Project.

The museum inward interrogation is the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - as well as the novel website precedes the reopening of the museum adjacent month after 10 years of renovation, restoration as well as alteration.  It's equally good making itself to a greater extent than accessible yesteryear existence the kickoff museum inward the basis to hold out opened upwards every twenty-four hours of the year.

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

The Rijksmuseum volition hold out the kickoff major national museum inward the basis to hold out opened upwards to the populace 365 days per year. The museum volition hold out opened upwards daily from ix am to five pm. Admission volition hold out €15, the museum remains costless for children nether 19.

Before I write more, I kickoff desire to give cheers 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 inward the Rijksmuseum to a greater extent than accessible.

• a novel blueprint for the museum website - which makes the fine art inward the collections much to a greater extent than accessible as well as the information nearly the museum much ameliorate structured
• a novel site - the RijksStudio - which allows you lot to practise things amongst the fine art inward the collection i time you've establish the fine art you lot like

A novel website

I recall the onetime website.  It was rattling traditional - lumbering even.  The novel website is rattling much mo decade of the 21st century.  It's rattling elementary as well as rattling epitome oriented.  All the onetime cloth is soundless at that spot but is at i time much better presented inward 3 elementary categories:

• Plan your Visit
• Collection
• About the Museum

Explore the Collection - navigation 

The large divergence is that the emphasis is at i time on the artwork itself.

The emphasis on navigation is nearly keeping it elementary - as well as 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 as well as curators!

• their 'treasures' are highlighted - for instance here's the Vermeer page
• you tin expect much to a greater extent than easily at works of art inward their different manifestations.  Here's 3 examples
• Paintings / Daily life (paintings) - each page suggests other pages which powerfulness hold out of interest.  Thus it suggests ways to surf the collection.  It's rattling slow to teach caught upwards inward this.  One tin imagine a game where you lot accept to run out to teach from i business office of the collection to some other using the minimum issue of moves based on 'related pages'!  (Well you lot tin if you're me!)
• Applied Arts / Textiles - when the only related page is "owls" you lot merely accept to click it!
• Works on Paper / Drawings - earlier you lot know it you lot start clicking the images as well as getting ones which completely fill upwards your screen.  Small cramped images where you lot accept to press buttons to brand larger accept been dumped.
• you tin equally good discovery artists you lot similar - or desire to know to a greater extent than nearly - or subject matter (oddly soundless life as well as flowers are missing) or styles
• I honey some of the categorisations which at i time crop upwards based on the content of the paintings inward their collection.  Brief background information as well as explanations are provided for each category.
  

• Daily life

• Inns, taverns as well as brothels
• Peasants
• Beggars
• Shepherds as well as shepherdesses
• Feasts
• Immoral women

• you tin download AND modification the rattling large high Definition images.  Downloading the Rijksmuseum: Masterpieces for Everyone.
  
  Then Karen Robinson (Dog as well as Pet Paintings) who sent me the link equally she knew it would involvement me!  Thanks to both of you.
  
  Finally - cheers to Charlie Parker (New Rijksmuseum website.
  
  Two developments
  
  There are 2 specific developments - both of which are aimed at making the fine art inward the Rijksmuseum to a greater extent than accessible.
  
  • a novel blueprint for the museum website - which makes the fine art inward the collections much to a greater extent than accessible as well as the information nearly the museum much ameliorate structured
  • a novel site - the RijksStudio - which allows you lot to practise things amongst the fine art inward the collection i time you've establish the fine art you lot like
  A novel website
  
  
  I recall the onetime website.  It was rattling traditional - lumbering even.  The novel website is rattling much mo decade of the 21st century.  It's rattling elementary as well as rattling epitome oriented.  All the onetime cloth is soundless at that spot but is at i time much better presented inward 3 elementary categories:
  • Plan your Visit
  • Collection
  • About the Museum

  

  Explore the Collection - navigation 

  The large divergence is that the emphasis is at i time on the artwork itself.
  
  The emphasis on navigation is nearly keeping it elementary - as well as 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 as well as curators!
  • their 'treasures' are highlighted - for instance here's the Vermeer page
  • you tin expect much to a greater extent than easily at works of art inward their different manifestations.  Here's 3 examples
  • Paintings / Daily life (paintings) - each page suggests other pages which powerfulness hold out of interest.  Thus it suggests ways to surf the collection.  It's rattling slow to teach caught upwards inward this.  One tin imagine a game where you lot accept to run out to teach from i business office of the collection to some other using the minimum issue of moves based on 'related pages'!  (Well you lot tin if you're me!)
  • Applied Arts / Textiles - when the only related page is "owls" you lot merely accept to click it!
  • Works on Paper / Drawings - earlier you lot know it you lot start clicking the images as well as getting ones which completely fill upwards your screen.  Small cramped images where you lot accept to press buttons to brand larger accept been dumped.
  • you tin equally good discovery artists you lot similar - or desire to know to a greater extent than nearly - or subject matter (oddly soundless life as well as flowers are missing) or styles
  • I honey some of the categorisations which at i time crop upwards based on the content of the paintings inward their collection.  Brief background information as well as explanations are provided for each category.
    

  • Daily life

  • Inns, taverns as well as brothels
  • Peasants
  • Beggars
  • Shepherds as well as shepherdesses
  • Feasts
  • Immoral women

  • you tin download AND modification the rattling large high Definition images.  Moira McLaughlin inward her post demonstrated what tin hold out done yesteryear extracting the moving epitome inside a painting.
  • The inquiry expanse has some to a greater extent than interesting as well as accessible information than some museums.  Note - artists interested inward developing their skills inward epitome may hold out intetested to know that they're asset an International Symposium on Painting Techniques, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 18, nineteen as well as 20 September 2013.  It's genuinely aimed at museum bods - which seems a fleck odd. 

  The key theme of the symposium volition hold out the technical report of historically used epitome techniques, the historical epitome materials, their beginning as well as trade, as well as their application inward the painter’s workshop.

  • In addition, the museum website soundless has all the normal information such equally information you lot ask to know if intending to pay a see or wanting to know how you lot tin practise some research.
  I discovery the layout equally a whole gives me a much ameliorate impression of the plant inward the collection than the previous website - plus it's absolutely amazing to hold out able to meet such large images.
  
  The search facility - equally oftentimes happens on the websites where English linguistic communication is non the kickoff linguistic communication - is soundless a fleck of a hot as well as missy affair.  I rather suspect they soundless accept some agency to cash inward one's chips when it comes to tagging all the images for search purposes.
  
  However the pick of images plant much ameliorate equally they're a decent size as well as you're able to brand out what the epitome looks similar without having to click it to meet what it is.
  
  The Rijksstudio
  
  The vision for the Rijksmuseum inward the 21st century is for it to hold out a modern museum.
  
  It's been apparent for a long fourth dimension that i the ways inward which museums enhance revenue is yesteryear making their images to a greater extent than accessible for usage inward an applied fine art sense - most oftentimes equally prints, cards as well as calendars.
  
  The Rijksstudio provides an chance to:
  
  • create sets of similar items that I similar - rattling much similar i powerfulness practise inward Pinterest.  You tin meet the overview of a couplet I made rattling chop-chop below.  Those familiar amongst my sketches as well as drawings volition non hold out surprised yesteryear the discipline matter!
  • make something amongst the images you lot similar - see From shirts to scooters ... tips as well as examples - nonetheless I haven't tried this bit!

  All of the images inward the Rijksmuseum’s online collection are high resolutions. So the printout of your favourite plant as well as details volition expect great, equally a poster, canvas, aluminum, Perspex or on a greetings cards set.

  What's rattling strange is that you lot tin extract an epitome from an artwork as well as cutting it downwards for usage inward applied art.  Normally museums are rattling keen that you lot reproduce the whole artwork - but inward a size suitable for the Internet as well as amongst all the copyright information intact as well as present.
  
  The images which you lot search to create the laid of images are those which appear on the museum website - rattling large as well as rattling skillful definition.
  

  

  Two sets I created inward Rijksstudio (by makingamark)

  They supply links to various websites which offering dissimilar forms of online printing on demand.  They may good hold out reputable websites but to my hear they could hold out rather to a greater extent than integrated into the website rather than standalone operations.  The nature of the relationships could equally good hold out spelt out a fleck to a greater extent than clearly.
  
  It seemed to me that the compass of the options offered enable people to inward lawsuit prepare the equivalent of Zazzle shops creating merchandise based on artwork inward the museum's collection.
  
  I estimate at the cease of the twenty-four hours peradventure the Museum has noticed that the ordinary consumer rattling oftentimes does equally skillful a chore if non ameliorate than the dedicated designer.  I must confess I'm i of those people who goes to an exhibition as well as and then comes out create to sense the merchandising - only to discovery I'm rattling disappointed yesteryear the images that the professional person designers accept chosen.
  
  It may good hold out the line of piece of occupation concern model started yesteryear the Rijksmuseum may choose grip of on amongst other museums as well as teach to a greater extent than widespread.  It'll hold out interesting to meet what happens next.
  
  Note:  "Who's made a grade this week?" volition hold out published tomorrow.
  
  
  
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