On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, [email protected] said: > I was trying to find out what are exactly the collections of lutes > in museums
each museum has a variety of curators in charge of the collections, sometimes you can correspond with them; be gentle, they are busy people. Each musuem has publications: books, xrays, plans, catalogs with a few dimensions etc. Sometimes useful, sometimes not. Some years back a list was compiled of the plans available from museums holding musical instruments. Those museums responding to the call for information are in an online list which is now posted at the CIMCIM website. Plans are of course being prepared all the time and that list is probably obsolete. each museum such as Vienna KHM, Nuremberg Museum, Leipzig, Bruxelles and others. > any ideas how and where to get such informations ? it takes time, money, and expertise to make online listings, all of these are in short supply at any institution, even ones who have large numbers of graduate students :-). Some museums have put their holdings online, others have not. This is a new thing for Conservators, somewhat controversial; will it increase interest in the holdings, will that prove a good thing in the long run? Perhaps it will sate the publics interest and reduce personal visists to the museum (reducing revenue, a bad thing). Dont expect all the worlds information to become completely available online, as long as there are costs to doing that their will be comercial interests involved in it; we see this already with JSTOR and similar journal archives, some librarys already regret trading shelf-space for increasing access fees. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
