Looks to be still in process, but...cool... ;)
"The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put
nearly half a million items from its collection online
for the public to visit free of charge.
As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the
world's most-visited museum has created a new database
of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more
than three-quarters already labelled with information
and pictures.
It comes after a year of pandemic-related shutdowns
that has seen an explosion in visits to its main
website, louvre.fr, which has also been given a major
makeover.
'It's a step that has been in preparation for several
years with the aim of serving the general public as
well as researchers. Accessibility is at the heart of
our mission,' said president-director Jean-Luc
Martinez.
The new database includes not only items on public
display in the museum but also those in storage,
including at its new state-of-the-art facility at
Lievin in northern France.
The platform also includes the Delacroix museum, which
is run by the Louvre, as well as sculptures from the
neighbouring Tuileries gardens and works recovered
from Germany since the end of the war in 1945 that are
waiting to be restored to the families from which they
were looted. The museum announced earlier this month
that it would intensify its efforts to restore items
looted from Jewish families by the Nazi regime.
It is working to complete the verification of all
13,943 items acquired between 1933 and 1945, a process
it hopes to complete within five years, to be followed
by investigations on works acquired in later decades.
Martinez estimated that around one percent of
portraits in the collections were looted.
'The Louvre has nothing to hide, and the reputational
risk is enormous,' he said. 'When the next generations
want to know where these collections came from, how do
we react? By doing the historical work and
establishing the facts.'"
(AFP)
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