Catálogo en línea del Museo Nacional de Antropología

Self-portrait

Está diseñado para que el usuario visualice las piezas con imágenes en alta resolución, lo que permite acercamientos detallados. El catálogo expone la ficha básica y una breve descripción; para algunos casos se entrega información ampliada sobre la pieza, que contiene referencias bibliográficas complementarias, enlaces multimedia y otros recursos visuales. (http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/explora.html)

Description

The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology’s online catalogue, although still in development, offers digital exhibits from the museum’s collection on its official website, showcasing close to 500 pieces from the pre-Hispanic period.

The online catalogue project, launched in 2009, is the result of a partnership between the National Museum of Anthropology, National Council for Culture and Arts (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes), National Institute of Anthropology and History (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) and Canon, aiming to digitize the museum’s collection and provide the public a chance to look into past and present through high quality digital images.

From 2010 to 2013, the digitization project spanned the Introductory, Mayan, Gulf Coast, North, West, Central Highland, Teotihuacan, Toltec and Oaxaca halls. The catalog’s intention is to function as a research tool for school projects, allowing to reference, study, peruse and preserve the museum’s collections. To undertake the digitization efforts of its historical, archeological and ethnographic archive, the museum is using EOS cameras and EF lenses.

The project is designed so that users can visualize high-res images of the exhibits, allowing for detailed close-ups, supplemented with information such as a brief description of the object, basic cataloguing information and, in some cases, bibliographical references and multimedia links.

Eventually, users will be able to turn the exhibit and view it at any angle. To achieve this, each piece is photographed 12 to 24 times from different positions and saved in RAM files to be used as video. Since the museum collects about 120,000 pieces, the process is expected to be finished by 2017.

The ensure the highest standards of quality in the scanning process the museum’s curatorial, exhibit design, restoration, preservation, inventory & collections, IT, technical & administrative departments worked on developing the appropriate methodologies.

The content currently available can be browsed by ethnic group and time period, or by using a map showing how the archeological and ethnographic archive is physically distributed within the 22 museum halls.

Links

URL: http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/explora.html

Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20160503172858/http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/explora.html