Internet and culture: The Smithsonian Institution has posted in the Network a collection of Asian Art

In January 2015 was launched the Internet-project “Open F|S”, which presents over forty thousand items from the collections of the Smithsonian Museums Freer Gallery of Art и Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (USA), most of which have never been exhibited and now are available for non-commercial use.

Freer and Sackler Galleries were the first institutions from belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, and the only today museums of the USA, which are specialized on Asian Art, and who completed a project to digitize all the collection and posted it online. All the images from database can not only be looked through, but also download in high resolution.

The museum prepared for users a small gift – a series of images from the collection, pre-processed for use as screensavers on laptops, handheld devices, social networks and others.

The team of the project offers users the opportunity to become not only a happy “consumer” of the digitization result, but also a participant of the project – any can register and participate in beta testing of future project initiatives.