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As part of our series dedicated to museums opening up their collections, Douglas McCarthy spoke to the Pinakotheken's Antje Lange about a landmark 2017 and her plans for this year
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Macreanu Iulian, project representative. Photo by staff photographer/Europeana AGM 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0
The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) collaborated with a group of Danish developers to release Vizgu, an app that comes up with related art information - descriptive text and audio - whenever a visitor points his smartphone at an SMK painting. Jonas Heide Smith, Head of Digital, tells us more about this innovative visitor guide which launched in September.
Read about the outcomes from 2016 Europeana research grants winners Nanna Thylstrup (University of Copenhagen), Lene Asp (author), and Mace Ojala (IT University of Copenhagen).
Neal Stimler, Program Manager for Content Partnerships, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, tells us what is driving The Met's Open Access policy, introduced in February 2017