Göttingen Museum is digital: Discover art treasures online now!

Göttingen Museum is digital: Discover art treasures online now!

The Städtische Museum Göttingen takes a crucial step towards digitization and has made four out of a total of 20 collections accessible online. These collections include the areas of paintings, graphics, Judaica and scientific instruments. The selected exhibits have been professionally photographed and provided with current information to make the digital offer of the facility more comprehensive, such as "https://www.hna.de/lokales/goettingen/goettingen-ort28741/goettingen-museum-werd-digital-spannende-online-- 93600109.html" target = "_ blank" rel = "noopener noreferrer"> hna reported.

Maren Christine Härtel, the new director of the museum, replaced Andrea Rechenberg. It emphasizes that the museum has 150,000 individual objects in a total of 20 collections that cover various subject areas. These valuable objects are now accessible online, while other exhibits from handicrafts, everyday culture, model collection and historical photos are already being prepared for future digitization. Härtel also emphasizes the importance of an analog visiting, since many exhibits are currently not visible.

digitization and online offers

The first four online collections are available at GOE.de/skmungen and are gradually supplemented. In addition, the museum offers a digital offer, including a film about the depot published on YouTube. This digitization is a step to make cultural assets of the upcoming generation accessible, which also pursues the goal of the city of Göttingen, as can be found on the official website of the museum. There it is pointed out that users can use Google Translate in order to translate the content of the website into other languages. However, users leave the offer from Goettingen.de and access Server from Google LLC. The city of Göttingen has no influence on data processing by Google, and users' consent is required to use the service.

This reflects a broader trend in the cultural industry, in which increased digitization of museums is sought to make cultural treasures available for a wider audience and create new approaches, as supporting further information from the museum website.