Van Gogh Museum to help Wikipedia

Next month, the Van Gogh Museum, NEMO and the corporate art collection of the ING Bank will welcome volunteers who come to take photos of their collection for Wikipedia. The photos will be made available to the general public on the basis of a creative commons license as well. It had already been announced that the Tropenmuseum, the Netherlands Institute for Media Art and the Jewish Historical Museum participate in the project.

In the entire country, over 30 museums participate in Wiki Loves Art, an initiative of Creative Commons Netherlands and Wikimedia Netherlands in collaboration with XS4ALL, Netherlands Heritage and the Museum Night Foundation (N8). In a comparable project in America and the UK, 15 museums participated. There, over 10,000 photos were published.

Image: Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, June 1889. The painting is owned by the MOMA in New York but currently on display at the Van Gogh. Source: Wikimedia