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The Last Museum is a semantic search engine indexing public museum collections, allowing searches by theme, style, subject, or description. The site states it currently has around 6 million artworks indexed and is free to use, and that it is not affiliated with museums and does not own the images.
Online database of the Louvre's collections, with entries for more than 500,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. Entries are updated daily by teams of experts and include each work's location. The site also offers themed albums and an interactive museum map.
ARAMOB is a portal for mobilizing spider data for research, focused on the German spider fauna. It is associated with the Arachnologische Gesellschaft and involves natural history museums in Germany, including the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, which mobilize their ecological spider data through the portal.
Gallerix is an online museum presenting painting reproductions. The site states it holds more than 500 thousand paintings from private collections and museums, and collections from 820 art museums including the Louvre, Prado, Hermitage and Vatican. It also hosts an Artclub gallery where contemporary authors post their own works.
Gez.la is a platform that provides virtual tours of museums, galleries, aquariums, zoos and other locations worldwide, and includes a progress tracker for users to record how many of the listed sites they have explored.
The Mobile Phone Museum is the website of a not-for-profit charity that collects mobile devices to preserve their history and design diversity. It states a collection of over 2800 individual models, offers catalogue and curated collections, and has partnered with PK Porthcurno on an in-person exhibition on the 40-year history of the mobile phone.
The Plains to Peaks Collective is a collaborative initiative for libraries, archives, historical societies and museums in Colorado and Wyoming to share their digital cultural collections with a broader public audience. It provides resources for participants including a digitization toolkit, DPLA search widget, and guidance on digital stewardship, copyright, metadata management, and participation in shared digital projects.