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Providing open access to digitised collections has spurred creativity and research worldwide – so why are the UK’s flagship museums so slow on the uptake?

The Finnish National Gallery recently applies a CC0 copyright waiver to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading institutions in the OpenGLAM movement to promote free and open access to digital cultural heritage. Riitta Ojanperä, PhD, Director of Collections Management, spoke to Douglas McCarthy about the Gallery’s policy.

In the second of a two-part series, Victoria Passau (Collection Manager, Online Cenotaph) and Zoë Richardson (Image Orders and Permissions Manager) describe how Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum manages access and reuse of taonga Māori and Pacific images in its collections using indigenous frameworks.

The first of a two-part series in which Victoria Passau (Collection Manager, Online Cenotaph) and Zoë Richardson (Image Orders and Permissions Manager) describe Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum’s journey towards open access, and where it’s headed next.

In this Medium post, Karin Glasemann summarises her experience of working with digitisation and digital development at Nationalmuseum, Sweden’s museum for art and design over the last seven years. She explores what “thinking digitally” means in a cultural organisation and how open access relates to it.

This article reports on the research-led exhibition experiment Display at Your Own Risk, which explores institutional practices when making works in the public domain available online and whether rights and reuse information is easily accessible and presented in clear language on museum websites.