Apr 30, 2020 11:27:00

The British Museum has released 1.9 million images of exhibits for free, with a major update of online exhibits

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Museum in the UK has been publishing images of exhibits online since 2007, but this online collection has the largest update since its release, and a total of 1.9 million exhibition images will be released for free It was become a thing.

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While many museums are temporarily closed due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the British Museum, one of the world's largest museums in the UK, has significantly updated the data on exhibits exhibited online .

With the update, 280,000 new exhibit images and information on 85,000 exhibit items have been released. The newly released images of the exhibit include 73 portraits by British contemporary artist

Damien Hirst , a watercolor painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and a 3000-year-old Bronze Age pendant.

by The Trustees of the British Museum

'The students, artists, scholars and anyone who loves history and culture can access the British Museum's collections,' said Hart Wig Fisher, director of the British Museum.

With this update, you can now access the British Museum's online collections not only from your PC browser, but also from your mobile device.

Many of the images exhibited by the British Museum online are also available in CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 , and they can be freely shared and adapted, but it is necessary to display a license for commercial purposes. The use in is prohibited. However, not all of the exhibits image has been published in CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, the British Museum and the reason is the 'because not all of the exhibits is the British Museum owns' explained doing.