Tell Us! How Do YOU Use Open Museum?

Open Museum makes rich and varied collections available 24/7 to arts keepers, creators and lovers. Through visitors emails, comments, tweets, blogs… we have been delighted to learn that Open Museum also serves a a number of other purposes.

A theater designer contacted us to request permission to use Trina Schart Hyman’s “Trees Becoming Women, Women Becoming Trees,” a work that only appears online in Open Museum. She wrote to us about her search for an image to print on the playbill of the production:

"So I googled “women and trees” and jackpot, the image that I just requested was there. I showed the image to my director, who of course loved it, and she wanted to use it in the show.

We put her in touch with the copyright holder, the artist’s daughter, and both were delighted that she could use the image.

Similarly, an archeologist, specializing in the Caucasus region, asked to use pages from the National Museum of Folk Music and Instruments in her power point presentation at the International Symposium on Georgian Culture. The Georgian Museum was as happy to be pointed to in an international venue, as the archeologist was to share the content.

In a third case, the distant family member of a person presented in the Norwich Historical Society’s Faces of Norwich emailed us from England to inquire about the genealogy of the person in question. It turns out they were related and requested contact information in order to connect after the generation of separation.

Do you have a story to tell about Open Museum? How it helped you find, share, do something you wanted? If so, please tell us.

Whether you are a one-time visitor or returning member, post a comment below and include an image if you can.