In recent years, scholarly examination of the extensive collection of ornamental engravings, designs by the Wiener Werkstätte, and posters, as well as the legacy of Joseph Binder and the design sketches of the Danhauser Furniture Factory, has been successfully completed. These areas of the collection are already accessible online and serve to reinforce the interactive dialog between the collection and users.
Over 60,000 images and data entries by the Library and Works on Paper Collection can be accessed by researchers and the broader public at www.sammlungen.MAK.at. The exceptionally high number of page views and a constantly increasing volume of requests for object loans and reproduction rights bear witness to the positive reception of these efforts.
Between 2012 and 2014, the MAK will be putting further important parts of the collection online: drawings from the 15th to 18th centuries, the legacy of Ernst Deutsch-Dryden, jewelry designs of the 19th and 20th centuries, photographs from the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873, the legacy of the Herrgesell Furniture Factory, and the ca. 40,000 sheets of paper comprising the museum’s large collection of commercial graphics. Numerous research projects, some of them supported by outside funding, will place the holdings in ever-new contexts, with such projects’ findings then serving to inform exhibitions and publications.
In 2001, the museum’s tradition of issuing regular publications was successfully reinstated: MAK Studies, a series of publications initiated by the library, deals with the MAK Collection in an interdisciplinary fashion and brings new aspects to light. There are currently 20 separate volumes in the MAK Studies series.
The remaining months of 2012 will see the MAK publications Mittheilungen des k.k. Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie (1863–1897), Kunst und Kunsthandwerk (1898–1926) and Alte und Moderne Kunst (1956–1985) scanned and indexed, with their full text being made accessible online. The software to be employed was purpose-developed in close collaboration with the MAK according to user-friendly criteria; this will be its first such use in Austria.
In this respect, as well, the Library and Works on Paper Collection underlines the outstanding position of the MAK among museums working in a scholarly fashion.
Over 60,000 images and data entries by the Library and Works on Paper Collection can be accessed by researchers and the broader public at www.sammlungen.MAK.at. The exceptionally high number of page views and a constantly increasing volume of requests for object loans and reproduction rights bear witness to the positive reception of these efforts.
Between 2012 and 2014, the MAK will be putting further important parts of the collection online: drawings from the 15th to 18th centuries, the legacy of Ernst Deutsch-Dryden, jewelry designs of the 19th and 20th centuries, photographs from the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873, the legacy of the Herrgesell Furniture Factory, and the ca. 40,000 sheets of paper comprising the museum’s large collection of commercial graphics. Numerous research projects, some of them supported by outside funding, will place the holdings in ever-new contexts, with such projects’ findings then serving to inform exhibitions and publications.
In 2001, the museum’s tradition of issuing regular publications was successfully reinstated: MAK Studies, a series of publications initiated by the library, deals with the MAK Collection in an interdisciplinary fashion and brings new aspects to light. There are currently 20 separate volumes in the MAK Studies series.
The remaining months of 2012 will see the MAK publications Mittheilungen des k.k. Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie (1863–1897), Kunst und Kunsthandwerk (1898–1926) and Alte und Moderne Kunst (1956–1985) scanned and indexed, with their full text being made accessible online. The software to be employed was purpose-developed in close collaboration with the MAK according to user-friendly criteria; this will be its first such use in Austria.
In this respect, as well, the Library and Works on Paper Collection underlines the outstanding position of the MAK among museums working in a scholarly fashion.
