The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through an initiative called Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC), put up hundreds of thousands of classic artworks online in high-resolution for free public viewing. Rejoice! Says Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO:
Through this new, open-access policy, we join a growing number of museums that provide free access to images of art in the public domain. I am delighted that digital technology can open the doors to this trove of images from our encyclopedic collection.
I’m all about this sort of thing, and preservation is so very important. Thank you, MET!
