British Museum takes collection online
From the article:
The British Museum has relaunched its website and made a large part of its collection available to view online.

Around 275,000 of the museum’s more than seven million treasures spanning two million years of history have already been uploaded to the new site, and the remaining items will follow over the coming months.

Matthew Cock, head of new media at the British Museum, told vnunet.com that the website was originally built in the mid-1990s and had evolved in a rather piecemeal fashion.

The initial batch consists of a large number of prints, drawings and other flat items, as well as information from the curatorial database used by the museum.

DIRECT to British Museum Web Site

Source: IWR

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