Commons:SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark, is located in the centre of Copenhagen. The collection was originally founded by the Danish Kings, but with the introduction of democracy in Denmark in the mid-1800s, the royal art collection was given to the people.
The art collection at SMK comprises three distinctive collections:
- The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculpture holds almost 9,000 paintings and sculptures dating from around 1300 to the present day.
- The Royal Collection of Graphic Art with 240,000 works is the nation’s largest collection of prints, drawings and other art on paper.
- The Royal Cast Collection is a collection of more than 2,500 plaster statues housed in the West India Warehouse by the Copenhagen harbour.
The Contribution[edit]
Being the national gallery, it is the museum’s strategy to be ‘SMK for all’.[1][2] The digitised collection is available via the online collection SMK Open and its open API. All works, where the copyright has expired, are handed over to the public using Creative Commons’ Public Domain Mark (PDM). [3][4] By summer of 2024, the contribution spans approx. 39,000 public domain artworks from the SMK collection.
In order to fulfil the strategy of being a museum for all, SMK has collaborated with Wikimedia Denmark since 2015 around making the museum’s digitised, public domain images and data available in Wikimedia Commons and on WikiData. Furthermore, SMK leads the community Wiki Labs Kultur where cultural heritage professionals, Wikipedians and volunteers join forces on a regular basis in physical and virtual meetings to improve and provide new cultural history content on Danish Wikipedia.[5][6]
The images[edit]
The metadata for all images and 3D scans is released under CC0. Faithful reproductions of artworks in 2D and 3D that are out of copyright due to age are released into the public domain, which means they can be used for all purposes. SMK decided in 2015 to release all faithful digital reproductions of works of art in the public domain with the Creative Commons Public Domain dedication CC0. In 2024, the labeling was updated to Public Domain Mark, following an update of EU-wide copyright law.
In accordance with the Europeana Public Domain Usage Guidelines [7], SMK kindly asks to credit the creator, e.g. the artist. Please also credit the museum and the photographer who provided the work, if such credit is possible. The more you credit the institution the greater the encouragement will be for other institutions to put more public domain works online.
All images provided as a result of this partnership go into the category Images from the partnership with Statens Museum for Kunst.
Reporting errors[edit]
Due to the fact that file names and descriptions have been automatically generated from old catalogue texts that may not have been recently edited, there may be information connected to our images that we would today consider discriminating. Users can suggest updates to such descriptions but we kindly ask you to please leave the fields marked Original caption unchanged. Our ambition is to release more images into the public domain as they are digitised. We invite users to report any problems, factual errors or other metadata issues on the Commons talk page.
See also[edit]
- Category:Images from the partnership with Statens Museum for Kunst
- Statens Museum for Kunst collaboration project template
- SMK API template
- SMK Open template
References[edit]
- ↑ About SMK - National Gallery of Denmark. smk.dk. Retrieved on 11 December 2021.
- ↑ SMK for everyone. smk.dk. Retrieved on 11 December 2021.
- ↑ Free download of images - Art in the Public Domain. smk.dk. Retrieved on 11 December 2021.
- ↑ SMK Open. smk.dk. Retrieved on 11 December 2021.
- ↑ Wiki Labs Kultur. dk.wikimedia.org. Retrieved on 11 December 2021.
- ↑ Wiki Labs Kultur. facebook.com. Retrieved on 11 December 2021.
- ↑ Europeana Public Domain Usage Guidelines. europeana.eu. Retrieved on 13 December 2021.