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by besttof 637 days ago
A colleague of mine made this very nice way to explore the (often) high resolution images from their collection:

https://rijkscollection.net/

Highly recommended and easy to fall into a “rijkscollection hole” for a bit :)

4 comments

This is really nice to use. Is this how this wing of the gallery actually looks?
No, it looks different from this.
Works better than the one mentioned in the title, this one let you zoom in and out with scroll weel.
*scroll wheel
Technically it is an interesting project.

But anyone who has visited the museum will find it weird. It is very different. The building architecture is very different, there are thousands more works in the exposition, and the order of the works is very different, ...

I've visited the museum many times and I find it to be excellent!
What is weird about it? That it isn't exactly like the real museum?
In the museum, I felt a dialogue between each painting with the surrounding ones. They'd be grouped stylistically, with painters from the same era, on similar themes. It was like a walk where we'd see a continuous. In the computer/site, it is much more discrete, sectioned, and compartmentalized.
This is super cool. Thanks for sharing the link