Digital SHM

Arkiv: May 2021 (3)

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2021-05-24

Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research

In September 2020 we at NHM, toghether with Nationalmuseum and Wikimedia Sweden, applied for part of the research and development grant that is distributed by the National Heritage Board to central museums. The project Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research was funded and we started working in February 2021. The project focuses on exploring ...

2021-05-24

Intermediate storage, filters and extended search options

Just over two months ago, we announced that our collections are finally searchable on the internet again. Since then, we have worked intensively with the promised, improved features. The goal of the next launch and the new functions we are developing right now is that new online collection search will be able to replace both ...

2021-05-21

1500 bigraphical records matched to Wikidata

A small step for humanity, but a big step for the National Historical Museums of Sweden in the work to re-establishing a digitally accessible infrastructure around our collection information! We have now matched our first 1500 biographical records (persons and institutions related to our collections) to corresponding objects in Wikidata. By telling the internet that ...

2021-02-12

You can search the collections!

We are now launching the first, simple search function to search the collections at the National Historical Museums! For the first time since the museums moved into the same collection management system in 2018, you can now find updated information and media about the collections. This first, simple search box that we now make available ...

2020-10-06

Economy Museum launches new website

The Royal Coin Cabinet changes its name to the Economy Museum, moves to new premises, launches a new brand platform and a new website. It is the first of six museum websites within the National Historical Museums to be rebuilt and modernized. In addition to our six museums, we have two more projects waiting to ...

2020-06-23

GrLXIV, part 2 – preservation

A historic collection consisting of ephemeral things is especially important to safeguard for the future. The Hallwyl archive is such a collection. It gives fascinating insights into a wealthy household of the last turn of the century, but it contains all sorts of things, from love letters that have been read many, many times to ...

2020-06-23

GrLXIV?

What is Gr LXIV, is a question I hear a lot. It’s Group 64, obviously. Anybody who has ever worked at the Hallwyl Museum knows that. Wilhelmina von Hallwyl decided that the collections of objects in the museum should be documented groupwise, each group with its own Roman number. Group I is the house at ...

2019-12-02

New web platform for the Swedish National Historical Museums

It’s been almost two years since the The Royal Armoury, Skokloster’s Castle and the Hallwyl Museum merged with the National Historical Museums and it’s about time that we get a common web platform. Our six museums currently have sites of varying scope and with different features and looks. The three museums that formerly formed the ...

2019-10-09

Coming up – new resource for history teaching

Right now, the National Historical Museums are developing a digital learning resource for schools – History of Sweden. Target groups for the resource are teachers and pupils from secondary and middle school, but also language introduction groups in high school. History of Sweden will become a hub for schools, museums and history education – here ...

2019-09-27

Amazing

Why do we go to work in the morning? Personally, it is to save the world. Not like a firefighter, a nurse or a climate-change activist, I admit, but after my own fashion. I believe in sharing knowledge, you see. Many people do not generally think of a museum as a source of knowledge. A ...