Fellow appraiser Kathi Jablonsky sent me this press release on the announcment of the new eMuseum on the Williamsburg website at www.history.org. The direct linke to the eMuseum is http://emuseum.history.org/code/emuseum.aspThe eMuseum currenty has over 3,200 items, images and descriptions with more being added daily. The site has good images and strong descriptions, some with excellent details such as history, materials and provenance. If you recall, the Louvre recently increased its electronic offerings by expanding its website to include most of its full collection instead of select exhibits. This is good news for researches and pre visit inspections. I hope it works to increased attendance and not reduce it.
The press release states:
New eMuseum feeds history hunger and antiques appetites
Williamsburg , Virginia -- 27 October 2009
The history-hungry and antiques aficionados can now browse online the collections of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The collections database with images, descriptions and object histories is now available through eMuseum on Colonial Williamsburg’s Web site.
“The eMuseum application is our latest effort to make the collections broadly accessible to scholars, historians, collectors and the general public,” said Ronald L. Hurst, Colonial Williamsburg’s Carlisle H. Humelsine Chief Curator and vice president for collections, conservation and museums. “In addition to the objects currently on view in the foundation’s museums and historic buildings, eMuseum makes available those portions of our collections that are too fragile or light-sensitive for frequent exhibition.”
Colonial Williamsburg’s eMuseum incorporates standard database search techniques to access records for objects in the collections. Users can browse the collections by object maker, material, date or type, among other categories. More than 3,200 objects are available now with more being added monthly until all objects in the collections are accessible through eMuseum.
The Colonial Williamsburg collections encompass more than 60,000 examples of fine, decorative, mechanical, and folk art. Included are American, British and Continental ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, costumes, tools, firearms, numismatics, metals, prints, maps, paintings and drawings from the late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as outstanding examples of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American folk art. Many of these objects are used to furnish the buildings in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area — where they provide guests with a better understa
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