Website Records

Object Details

Topic: Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art (Website); Tumblr (Electronic resource); Bento: Art Outside the Box (Blog)

Topic: Web sites; Art museums; Art, Asian; Museums -- Public relations; Ceramics -- Korea; Museums -- Collection management; Blogs; Museum exhibits; Special events

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-045, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Website Records

Descriptive Entry: This accession consists of one website and two blogs maintained by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The "Korean Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art" website was crawled on May 12, 2017. The website serves as an online catalog for its collection of almost 300 Korean ceramic works. It also provides a history of the collection and the texts of scholarly essays written in Korean with English translations provided. Detailed object information may be incomplete. The website was created in 2015 and does not appear to have been updated. The "Bento: Art Outside the Box" blog, crawled on May 12, 2017, shares the stories of the museums' resources, staff, exhibitions, and special events. The blog was established in November 2011. The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Tumblr blog was crawled on June 14, 2017. The blog, which launched in April 2014, highlights collections, exhibitions, special events, and Asian art in the news. Materials are in electronic format.