Comment on British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.

moipe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get what you mean, like there’s definitely some stuff you can just look at a picture if it on the internet, but I guess for others it’s about the sense of space, connection, grouping, narrative, context etc that’s present with a well put together Museum or Gallery display.

  Without all that, you’ve just got a car boot sale of random things - wheras that text, maps, illustrations, audio, video or 3d recreations etc - or simply the placement of things next to one another, or following through the room in a particular order is what really makes that stuff interesting.

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