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The source network

Fourteen collections. One trail back to every museum.

Meta Museum lets one question travel across public museum collections without flattening them into a single anonymous database. Every result keeps its institution, source record, and reuse guidance in view.

Search the collectionsFollow a curated connection

Why the network matters

Connection should add context, not erase it.

Museum records were created for different collections, languages, and cataloging histories. Meta Museum places them side by side while preserving those differences. A match is an invitation to inspect the evidence, not a claim that two records describe the same object.

From search to source

What stays attached as a record travels.

  1. 01

    The museum record

    Title, maker, date, object identifier, and the original institutional link remain the starting point.

  2. 02

    The rights context

    Image and metadata reuse are kept separate. A public record is never treated as automatic permission to republish its image.

  3. 03

    The connected view

    Linked Art normalization makes comparison possible while attribution and uncertainty remain visible to the reader.

Connected institutions

The collection network, source by source.

Capabilities are stated conservatively and come from the same registry used by the live application.

For researchers and builders

A reusable dataset with its receipts intact.

The normalized reference set is published as metamuseum-public-linked-art-records. Its profile records version, checksum, license, update cadence, and download formats; each exported record carries its own provenance and rights envelope.