Collections visual arts
This collections’ website combines the collections of four museums: KMSKA, MSK Gent, Musea Brugge and Mu.ZEE. In total, there shall now be more than 23,000 descriptions of works of art available for consulting.
The database is steadily growing and is updated automatically based upon the most recent information in the collection-registration systems of the museums. In 2024, the collections of M Leuven will also be added. The collections’ website consists of two search windows: one for objects and the other for artists.
You can browse the art of the late-Middle Ages to the present day via the collections’ website. The collections of the KMSKA, MSK Gent, Musea Brugge and Mu.ZEE contain art in all its various forms: paintings, statues, drawings, prints, sketches, collages, stained-glass windows, textile art, photographs, videos, installations and so forth. The collections are searchable by these types of art, but also via specific materials, subjects and periods.
'Discover the collections' also offers acces to thematic websites on the Flemish Primitives, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Baroque in the Southern Netherlands, George Minne, James Ensor and abstract modernism.
Open data
All information (called metadata) about these objects is published as open data on the datahub, so that everyone can reuse it in its own applications.
Images are available through IIIF. IIIF-manifests are to be found under 'linked open data', if the artwork is not protected by copyright.
More information for developers: GitHub.
