IT and culture: The project on digitise Art Nouveau items by Finland museums for the Europeana ended

The National Board of Antiquities and the National Museum of Finland were two of the participants of the joint-European Partage Plus project, which began in March 2012 and ended in spring 2014. The goal of the project was for the 24 participating museums to digitise a total of 75,000 Art Nouveau items for the Europeana database, which showcases the cultural heritage of Europe. In addition to traditional digitalisation, the project aimed to create 3D models of some 2,000 items.

The project’s goals were successfully reached and partly even exceeded. At the end, a total of 81,000 Art Nouveau items were digitised during the project, and 3D models were created of some 2,000 of these items. In Finland, the project participants included the National Board of Antiquities, the National Museum of Finland, and the Design Museum.

During the project, participants familiarised themselves with the latest standards of digitalisation, multilingual glossaries and the 3D modelling of digitised items.